Republican party hack and trump yes mad in the acting Homeland Security director chad wolf well hes under fire this week as n. B. C. News reports that the Consulting Firm where his wife works has been awarded more than 6000000. 00 in contracts from the department of Homeland Security since september of 2018 and then although the company has a long history of federal contracts her company did not do work for b h s until after will become the will became the t. S. A. Is cheap to step in 2017 now naturally chad deflected these accusations as chads often do with they did show a spokesperson saying quote at no time and in any of his positions since joining the department of Homeland Security has acting secretary will been involved in any awarding of contracts sorry chad sorry pentagon but actions my friends will always speak louder than words. When it comes to how tax dollars are used and that my friends is why were always watching the. New cd. You want to. See. This joyce state. Great city this sleaze systemic deception is show which. Brings up the old. Welcome aboard the watching the i robot and i love you yes you are all right. Goodness gracious to me the pentagon took a 1000000000. 00 of character money money that was supposed to go to the defense and safety of everything that could be done to keep us from getting sick with cold or help us through this pandemic and really just kind of. A lot of fun stuff there should be a lot of outreach i mean were still counting the numbers of those whove been impacted as well as those who have died from coal but 19 and looking towards this next phase of what it might look like in this country and to think that there were so many people deny people to think that there were so Many Organizations that had no place to turn and the money with their supplies were there and just see what it was used but i think that there should be a lot of outrage and a lot of upset people but also this goes to show trumps you know draining the swamp montra absolutely nothing because the its just a swampy now is that there were a bit you know youre actually youre youre not alone in that thought dr emily porter a medical doctor who also is related to katie porter the senator you know the one who was always like lane on the force she actually tweeted out if you cant get a covert test or find him and 95 its because these contractors stole from the American People to make faster jets and fancy uniforms after all trying to say we are quote unquote at war it is bad when you look at like what these people did now wasnt that these were like 16 year old kids with a charge card you know it. Now its not just the president knew just how seriously 19 was we know that from you know that the woodward tapes now its that he was also complicit in the government taking money taking supplies that were much needed and to help mitigate some of this disaster and i think that you know the further we dig into this story the more depressing it actually gets it really is a real is this the care ok so the pentagon essentially spent this 1000000000. 18 the firms including rolls royce they needed to maintain Ship Building Industries you had tens of millions of dollars for satellite drone and space Surveillance Technology well that keeps us safe you had 80000000. 00 towards Aircraft Assembly plants 2000000. 00 towards manufacturing of Army Uniforms so my question is is this like not earmarked towards anything they have to do a covert 19 because what is the justification were not actively at war with anybody. To utilize those funds when you know you have cash strapped states that are begging for assistance to battle but 19 this is just a moderate are you ready for the justification are you ready ok eleanor of the undersecretary for accu acquisition and sustainment defended the Pentagon Spending by telling journalists quote we need to always remember that Economic Security and National Security are very tightly in a related and our Industrial Base is really the nexus of the 2 basically saying let me know you know. Shes basically saying that look the military Industrial Complex is the fuel that runs this country if we let that die then everything dies so we need to give that money wherever it may need to go within the military Industrial Complex because they were dependent on that which would have only made sense if we were actively in combat and nothing about her statement i could see why she made it youve got to say youve got to Say Something to see what sticks nothing in that statement makes sense when it comes to why this was actually used again were not in active combat we have a president who continues to say hes drawing troops back so why are we still pay. Funneling this money through a war machine when theres nothing theres nothing happening right now and its sad too because congress you know theyre the ones who put the care act together theyre the ones who could have put those rules and regulations in the how these departments spend money and they didnt over and over again and then i mean you know going back a little further now we have the scandal with our good buddy wolf. Who says look i didnt do anything to get my wifes company that she works for more money from the d. H. S. S. And contracts but its like he wouldnt have to Everybody Knows when when nudge nudge exactly theres that name alone in his position helps her to get those contracts and he doesnt have to basically say or call somebody else. Its just frustrating we know theres a lot of cronyism going on in the Trump White House than in many white houses prior to this but this is just so blatant. The founder and president of accountable us mr will join the d. H. S. S. Began pumping millions of dollars into his wifes firm which also happens to be is the largest financial asset the arrangement is highly problematic and warrants congressional scrutiny yes it is because that is when the lists like federally list his Financial Disclosure form his wifes 1100000. 00 retirement account with Berkeley Research group the company Research Group that is his biggest asset so its kind of like buddy but at least try to pretend youre above board. Say her name Briana Taylor weve seen elected leaders activists athletes and entertainers take to the streets wear masks emblazoned with Brianna Taylors name take to twitter vocalizing the need for Police Reforms and calling which are just meanwhile keeping Briana Taylors name alive theyve created means and videos to remind people that 6 months after the death of unarmed young black 1st responder died at the hands of police her murderers had yet to face criminal penalty how in america under the backdrop of covert 19 could a 1st responder emergency medical technician awarded by the state of kentucky and her hometown die and nary a charge for her murderers. Well that all changed today. 3 counts of wanting endangerment were announced this afternoon these charges arguably fall below what was legally possible but charges dont even attempt to address the murder on the taylor at all there are no homicide charges and only one officer was charged leaving the other 2 completely free to recourse for their actions and just enough why the maximum punishment for wanton endangerment in kentucky is 5 years a pretty low bar for murder. In advance of the announcement Kentucky Attorney general Daniel Cameron spoke of the decision relating to the Louisville Metro Police officers responsible for going to taylors death and the louisville mayor declared a state of emergency Mary Greg Fisher implemented a curfew cordoning off the downtown area and limiting the areas where protesters could gather through a series of executive orders it seems as though the city of louisville and the state kentucky care a lot more about calling protests they do about pursuing justice but we got a pale cool Justice Reform clearly has a long way to go Law Enforcement agencies protect their own and people are disappointed by the charges released from the grand jury today but theyre not surprised over their own being message with that in kentucky and across America Black lives simply dont matter our murders are more fully prosecuting and there is no true justice to be found when the murders wear a badge and everything that you just saw the finished set up i couldnt agree more because that is the biggest problem is that if you are murdered by someone wearing a badge and youre black but now were finding out if youre a lot of other colors to. The states always going to side with the bad thats what it pretty much boils down to at the end of the day they might get a slap on the wrist they might you know kind of sorta maybe you shouldnt discharge his weapon blah blah blah but at the end of the day granted taylor sorry you dont exist every son and i think that the most shocking part and we were literally having a conversation about this earlier the most shocking part in this is the charges that were actually brought down and i think that there would be some people many people would have been we would have thought of it differently if there were there might as well have been no charges at all because if were talking want on abandonment were talking a charge that has absolutely nothing to do with the murder of Brianna Taylor but even in the listing of that charge and of itself her name is never mentioned theyre actually more worried about the areas that the bullets ricocheted off while they were firing into her apartment than theyre worried about the murder of an armed innocent sleeping black woman there were sort of this bullet went through you and put your neighbors and their injures kind of what it says and the fact that the officer who got charged with this wasnt even one of the true that they believe you know they didnt really say which officer had been killed or today but he wasnt even involved in the actual killing of her but he was shooting but because none of his bullets even came near her exactly and thats a very interesting point to make because the 2 guys who are more than likely responsible for her death contributed to it they didnt receive charges at all so today you know that that press conference was very confusing it was very frustrating and i think that rightfully so there are a lot of people in the streets protesting and a lot of folks on social media basically calling this out as a huge ringback importance of justice specifically because Brianna Taylor was the type of victim that white people and White America has been contingent conditioned to believe what were seeing equitable justice shes somebody who didnt have a criminal background shes somebody who in other terms came from good stuff and shes someone who did everything right she was a 1st responder with the backdrop of kobe 19 she was a great student shes somebody who for all intents and purposes you put forth all the effort you could to make sure that her that there is some justice be. To her and her family and thats just not what we saw its interesting when you talk about to your perspective this was it because you were in chicago one with one mcdonald under very similar circumstance and again same kind of reaction from from the people that are supposed to mitigate justice there and basically said well we dont really want to give these People Justice absolutely that and these cases are quite similar so 9 9 we know that in both the brown taylor case and the mcdonalds case there were large settlements that were given to the family prehearing what the grand jury was actually going to charge an officer with in both cases the charges were very minimal and in the case d. Donald it came down to 3 years he was only going to serve a year and a half and i dont believe he served all of that sentence but in addition to that one of the things that both cities chicago and louisville have done is put such an emphasis on the city being protected from protesters and so what i noticed in chicago and it happened in the murder happened in my community was that the streets were cordoned off the curfews were put in place you had these Police Officers and takes in everything because they were waiting for black people to be in the streets going hey i am because of a very low rate of charges over there being an under charge in that case the exact same thing is happening right now in louisville where you see there being such a crazy amount of restrictions placed on protesters in addition to a state of emergency being declared and a city basically being cordoned off and theres a lot more intuitiveness put in trying to protect people from protests and then there is from protecting people from Police Officers who just may take their line that shows you where the government whether state local or federal kind of views these things theyre more upset that people are out protesting than innocent people are getting killed by police like. What angers them or is you standing up to them saying hey we dont we want to see justice we dont want to see injustice anymore the system is broken that upsets the government more. Dont protest were going to line our streets with militarized cops trying to keep it from protesting the innocent people getting shot at night in their apartments and the sad we should be upset everybody should be upset in a country that was founded on protests this push against protesting right now is just extremely active and there should be no more beyond a tailors that should be rule number one you want to stop protests dont let any more Brianna Taylors happen simple as that. All right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on all platforms coming up professor who sean. Sits down with us to talk about the new round of sanctions the trumpet ministration of the lever here since i wrong this latest escalation focuses on arms sales among the iranian officials but how effective have sanctions ban them does on truly pose a threat to the u. S. State to find out keep on watching. Its going to be hard to reclaim freedom and were going to have to work at it but as people recognize from examples like. What repression digital so. Need to. I hope people will start fighting. Saying we wont tolerate systems. Streets in our homes that cant possibly track what were doing. We are segregated. By social class. People are the 1st. If youre born into a poor family youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die now theres 15 years younger that youre born into generational poverty. So by every day you meet your needs and the needs of your family. This week United States president and our brand name and shiva donald trump once again escalated tensions between the United States and iran by signing an executive order authorizing sanctions on iran its officials entities and those that buy and sell arms to and from this stems from a move at the end of august by the Trump Administration to reinstate all of the often brutal sanctions on iran that were lifted as part of the original run and nucular deal negotiated by the Obama Administration a. B. C. News reports that quote the move has been rejected by the United Nations and u. S. Allies like france germany and the united kingdom. And adversaries such as china and russia who all remain part of the Iran Nuclear Deal but that lack of support by the un and the Security Council does not faze the Trump Administration as kelly craft the Us Ambassador to the United States told the media quote we dont need a cheering section to validate our moral compass really not find comfort based solely on numbers particularly when the majority has found themselves in an uncomfortable position of underwriting terrorism chaos and conflict refuse to be members of that club. Ok well joining us now to discuss these sanctions and the current tensions between the u. S. And iran is the president founder of the American Iranian Council and distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers University who shot and amir a mahdi thank you very much sir its not to have you on. Thank you but the professor i want to ask you how will these latest sanctions and acted by the trumpet ministration play out how could they affect the iranian government and most importantly the iranian people. But obviously essential to have an impact. That they have had that but i think most of it oncet konami problem is the mess tic its mismanagement and i also have to say that the sanctions that are supposed to be very imposed to day its not mechanism are they you will end sanctions on iran and these sanctions are very limited in scope it would put on eat on the dodgy on individual boards full of that you noted and richmond and misidentifying of men and of what g. D. P. Harms