Sort of. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries. What do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. Its more about what it says about the state of politics its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting abou
To balance the books. Expect action when Philip Hammond unveils the contents of the Famous Red Briefcase next wednesday. It has been a big day in Northern Ireland, results being declared in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election. These were pictures from earlier, 7a seats declared not long ago, sinn fein and the dup polling strongly. One developing piece of news, as a result of his party not looking like it will do so well, the Ulster Unionist Party debt mike nesbitt has announced that he will resign leader. He felt he had to ta ke resign leader. He felt he had to take responsibility for the rejection of his partys message and what had happened. The election was called after sinn fein withdrew from the Power Sharing Executive in january. That is all from me, were now going tojoin january. That is all from me, were now going to join a special Election Programme presented by my colleagues. They have reporters at every cou nt colleagues. They have reporters at every count centre across No
Assistance. And we didnt take away that program. We actually just raised the barometer to 20, and it saved taxpayers 8 billion in the program. Thats 8 billion that we can put towards making sure that those who need benefits the most are going to get them. Ial believe that we ought to implement i also believe we ought to implement some kind of work requirement that was common place under the clinton era welfare to work program thats been changed during this administration. And i, for the life of me, cannot understand why america should be satisfied with a program that doesnt require an ablebodied adult who has no dependent children, who is not enrolled in a training or education program, who doesnt take care of an adult dependent, who doesnt meet a plethora of other exemptions, i dont know why we cant pair them with a job. And if a job is not available, why cant we pair them with Community Service or volunteer Service Opportunities where they can learn skills that will get them the best
Innocents. Took a look at the politics of this right now is that in 2014 youve got the majority of the senate seats that it would take place in states where frankly the hispanic vote is not large enough to play Critical Role. Louisiana, north carolina, arkansas, colorado you could make a case that will play Critical Role but to so many of the senators sided with republicans saying t through the continuing resolution funding for implementation of daca should be eliminated and that authority should be rescinded. The politics and immigration are pretty ugly redneck i think its really important that none of the ugly right now. None urge congress to move forward. From our perspective after were finding hope. Over the last month or so we did over one dozen conversations with conservatives, faith, Law Enforcement and business leaders. In South Carolina we had evangelical pastors, business is a lawenforcement saying we got it going going. Before we came on i mentioned the fact the presentation
Agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics on to electronic prescribing. And after years of bureaucratic battle, finally the regulations came out. I think that facilitates via electronic prescribing Prescription Drug monitoring, when you no longer have to go and ask for the paper scripts from individual doctors or from individual pharmacies, you can look at a database and you can see, wait a minute this, fellow is a podiatrist. Why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone . They prescribed 500 capsules last month and now theyre prescribing 5,000. Wait a minute. This person has gone to five doctors in five pharmacies for the same prescription. Whats going on . It opens investigatory doors. And yet, years later, its now electronic prescribing for all this stuff. The Prescription Drug monitoring programs dont seem to have yet really come online as a proper investigative tool to give us the common sense information that we need to make these determinations. What are the best next steps t