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Easy show dream to meet you looks good. You almost had me on the road back to. The prosecutor though i machine you can you get out of corners nothing you. The mob boss may be getting us all most of the reason i was there. From. Welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time thats returned with tyson slocum hes with a group which calls themselves a Public Citizens Energy Program i want to ask you first of all tyson because i am fairly new in washington d. C. Now you are a lobbyist or youre a qualified lobbyist what are you exactly well im not technically a lobbyist in order to be a lobbyist under a law called the lobbying disclosure act which actually was championed by then speaker Newt Gingrich back in one thousand nine hundred five you got to spend at least twenty percent of your time. Contacting members of congress and executive Branch Officials i usually spend about ten percent of my time doing that so then i says to Public Education and awareness and karate and things like thats correct so a street is where lobbyists are is that is that where a lot of the corporate for hire lobbyists are weve got our office up on capitol hill so theres a bunch of my colleagues lobby but you know i recently testified before congress but that doesnt count towards lobbying because when youre invited to publicly testify its more for Public Education than private lot ok n. S. E. Sit down with members of congress and you you know are talking to them about whats going on as you see it and hear sector and hopefully to influence their vote right thats correct in addition to talking to the media and working with grassroots activists you know the there are three main pillars to advocacy media grassroots law where in congress you find that the ear most sympathetic to what youre talking about a senator or congressman who can you name it maybe say this guy really is the guy we go to because hes really in sync with what we were thinking about i think senator Bernie Sanders is a big champion he also is on the Senate Energy committee. So hes got relevant jurisdiction to Energy Issues and im a big fan of him and his work i actually think that hes a very effective legislator senator Maria Cantwell who is the Ranking Member of the Senate Energy committee i think is also a very effective advocate for families ok we are in washington d. C. Youre you know in this industry so to speak whats the scuttlebutt on the straight what the Current Administration and what it going to twenty eighteen and twenty twenty what what is like trying to come up with some opposition thats going to get some traction not a faint some big flashy names in the celebrity arena but you know thats not the you know here we are in the actual belly of the being right so were kind of trendy see what were the words in effect of pushback against this Current Administration because it will appears as though theyre gathering some momentum theyre not collapsing like people thought that they would theyre actually gaining some momentum so where were the pushback going to be i actually would challenge that theyre gaining some momentum just because they had this tax bill victory i dont think its a popular measure donald trump remains deeply unpopular hes the most unpopular president in recorded history at this point and if president said exactly where obama was in his cycle in the white house in terms of popularity versus own popularity and where i live in North Carolina it is the only game in town melon district and talking about anybody on the other side of the aisle and thats and i drive all over this country georgia alabama tennessee North CarolinaSouth Carolina theyre there trust from country through and through they love them well but in alabama which is probably as as deep trump countries you can get they just elected a democrat for the first time in twenty five years and i think they see that as a seed of a you know every election is different you know roy moore was an insane candidates but you know the fact of the matter is that trump. Didnt really help matters there. Is a lot of movement going to get more into your an area of energy lets talk pipeline politics the u. S. Is that exporting natural gas liquid natural gas russia has just opened a new mammoth l. N. G. Liquid natural gas terminal whats happening in this area the Natural Gas Prices are pretty depressed right now there was a time several years ago. Whered l. N. G. Prices were extremely high and so the market was very lucrative right now the elegy market is fairly saturated prices are sort of low but countries and and investors understand that there are theres going to be strategic growth here so as natural gas is positioned as more and more the go to fuel in electric power markets those nations that are positioned to supply natural gas globally are going to be in a good position and so the obama strayhorn was actually fairly supportive of elegy exports they did a number of things unilaterally at the department of energy which is one of the primary agencies that oversees the approval of liquefied natural gas export facilities. The obamas ration actually put into motion the rules that fast track the consideration for these its also important to remember that coal like natural gas its cleaner its cleaner than coal i think that there that would be a positive for trump in for your in your view not necessarily because i think. Because at the same time hes also doing things that are very negative for the way drilling in the National Parks opening right arctic which are clearly stupid and he is put it in bold as terms i cant its just frickin stupid right and hes also proposed a vast expansion of offshore drilling right on the pacific ironic its ridiculous you know theres a lot of things. With trump where hes and disciplined and a little unfocused and sometimes sloppy in the execution of some of the policies that theyre put on this end of jail political you know the grand game as its called something so is it true as i have understood from rating various reports that the us affectively is becoming the center of price and Energy Industry no more are we going to see opec and saudi arabia filling that role in other words the us through this natural gas through the fracking boom thats taken place and theyre now out of position to be the swing vote. At the price maker the market maker and energy and the price of Energy Saudi Arabia youve got a new regime there who for some reason because hes depriving people of their rights and keeping them in a hotel and threatening to kill them and behead them thats called being a reformist apparently but they are now going to be a vassal more than ever before of the u. S. In terms of energy is what is that it is thats going on yes no its something theres no question that fracking has fundamentally transformed Energy Production in the United States and the two thousand and fifteen law change signed by barack obama that ended the forty year ban on export in crude oil and of course weve always been able to export liquefied natural gas that has been a big variable in Global Markets but i dont think its the chief variable i think that theres a number of other things that are that are competing here you can never forget about trends and demand one of the big factors going on right now thats sort of keeping a lid on oil prices at around sixty bucks a barrel is the fact that people are really uncertain where the chinese economy is going and the chinese economy was the big reason in the mid two thousand that we saw this huge increase in Global Crude Oil prices. With an search. Mt about demand growth in huge economy like china and even india for that matter thats so thats keeping a lid on prices but there is no question that that United States production is a global variable for the first time in an awful long time but i wouldnt i wouldnt assign it the primary economy three opec i mean i mean the seventys or the petro dollar always came about yeah the food crisis the Energy Crisis the seventys right seventys had a huge recession the biggest us depression and so then the rise of the petro dollar and that quid pro quo going to let saudis sell us their energy theyve long as they take their dollars and buy u. S. Treasuries with them so they have this quid pro quo the at this this this this relationship going on so is that it seems like thats now out changing the global relationships are changing a bit because now china as you mentioned is a big big into this mix and the middle east is dealing directly with china chinas now at odds with the u. S. And. Does you work in the Energy Business as such do you get into how the u. S. Dollar as the World Reserve currency plays factors into all of this not directly but you know clearly there have been some moves by other countries to price of oil in. Currencies other than they were theyve gone and murdered whether its. Gadhafi who else would try to break free of the u. S. Dollar right i guess i dont see right now another currency you know the euro has taken a big credibility hit so i dont see anything d. For owning the dollar at this point i think a lot of that talk was happening when the euro see a word is a you know giant is really threatening to pull out of the dollar as a way of challenging the Trump Administration assertion that there may be layers and bad actors in the trade if they go out and dump u. S. Treasuries and. Dollar takes a massive hit Energy Prices go up pretty dramatically but then that would potentially be good for the environment right it could be us but you know thats like hammering a nail with a sledgehammer you might achieve your goal but you create a lot of Collateral Damage its also interesting that the big rumored investor in the potential saudi i. P. O. Of its state old company is Chinese National round of funds rate so you know whether or not that i. P. O. Is actually going to happen i dont know that it will its clear that i think china is just you know theyre aggressive in all of these markets so let me ultimately air lobbying for the environment right and for working families we kind of take an approach of Energy Policy as sort of Economic Justice because energy costs represent a huge chunk of the utility and Energy Called the consumer family not the work consumers consumers and workers i think. You know when when trump is unveiling the rollback of the b. P. Safety rules for offshore drilling that were implemented in the wake of that disaster in two thousand and ten you know that is an environmental issue but its also a safety issue eleven workers lost their lives on the deepwater horizon rig and so we want to see Strong Public HealthPublic Safety and Worker Protections when it comes to big cant you get this whole idea of green energy being a huge environmental plus a wage boom right right i mean why is that message not is it is it because the corporate i guess you bet rick perry is saying that you know im going to i got a protection racket for the Energy Industry the coal is tree so and ive got the president s air so were not going to let the fact that the Green Energy Revolution would be great for wages and great for the environment and protect our National Parks which is our National Assets that we should be protecting. For dear life the fact that these are being raped by Energy Companies is a travesty beyond words so why cant that message gets through because now youre trying to get the message through what i think works well go what do you need like what do you need what more do you do what other help would be helpful for you to get that message through like im totally on board of this message you know like what can how can we get this message through to this guy in the white house that hes missing the best financial play of his presidency the biggest boom you know the art of the deal the best deal ever seen as frick and a life right right Global Investment is all going to wind up right now slocum its down the scale youre like oh it get this thing thats going on right now thats it for this edition of the kaiser party my skies are a stage there were times i guess tyson slocum it was Something Like a lobbying group if you want to catch us on twitter its kaiser report the next time i go. 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Prescribed medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. To commit some site what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what are the real side effects why. Was this child likely alter what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. Just because somethings legal doesnt mean its safe. Go through. Turkey starts a full scale military operation against the kurds in the Syrian Region of our friend with a Ground Invasion expected from sunday. A group of gunmen the tanks a major hotel in the Afghan Capital kabul killing several people and injuring at least six. This dont trump enters his second year in office the government is shut down over the failure to pass a funding bill. We take a look back at the highs and lows of the president s tenure so far. Im Kate Partridge and youre watching the latest headlines here in r. T. International thank you for joining us. Turkey has begun a military operation in syria against the kurdish held region of africa and the turks have launched air strikes and began cross border shelling with a Ground Invasion expected on sunday the news agency ruptly has obtained this exclusive footage of aerial strikes on afrin over seventy planes conducted sorties with all aircraft now back at base in turkey the campaign which uncorrected siddhis to be anti terror has been named operation all of branch its aimed at ousting the Kurdish Militia from a from which they have held for five years the turks started cross border shelling on friday. While injured civilians in afrin were taken to the citys Central Hospital following the airstrikes the kurds claimed that at least six civilians and three fighters were killed with another thirteen people injured while ankara insists all the casualties were among kurdish fighters arties middle east correspondent paula slayer is following developments at least eight if sixteen years have been firing from the skies while on the ground you have the Turkish BackedSyrian Opposition rebels who have moved into this on tape isnt on tape that is controlled by the Kurdish Militia y. P. G from the ground were also hearing that the Free Syrian Army has been arriving in buses as well as in trucks that have been fitted out with machine guns we are receiving reports in terms of the civilian situation there and they were hearing their people have been ordered to retreat into their homes and into shelters but there are reports coming through of people who have been wounded and injured and who are being taken to the local hospital now all of this. Follows threats over the last few days by the type of president the one that he was going to launch a ground offensive into africa it was really just a question of when and he said that this was really the only answer to root out what he has called terrorist elements there take a listen throughout the hour for an operation has a factory been started on the ground this will be followed by a man by the promises of not so nobody has a right to say anything. Now man is an area that is mostly arab it is waste of the euphrates and it is the next step in terms of the Turkish Military is way of dealing with the Kurdish Militia it is not far from the area that the army has entered now so that is where all eyes are turning for the immediate future. Well the Turkish Foreign minister has posted a tweet saying the country launched the offensive against syrian Kurdish Militias exercising its right to selfdefense now that chavez shall you added that anchor his actions are strictly in keeping with International Law he went on to stress the operation isnt targeting civilians but only aims to take out terrorist groups arties igors lerner explains the distribution of forces what brought you to syria this is what the situation on the ground in syria looks like right now are for in the region where the turks are carrying out their military or peroration the area highlighted in green is where the turkey backed rebels are to a certain extent at least they are helping ankara from the ground red are these syrian army these the syrian army guys they dont have any problem with the kurds but they do have a problem with these guys because this is the area of the green aires also the region which harbors how you have to create or nusra a terrorist organization and finally here you have man bridge there it is also it is a city also controlled by the kurds and it could be turkeys game plan erdogan has already said after hes done with afrin man beach is next this operation hardly came out of the blue you know the kurds have been historically a major thaw in turkey but what catalyzed things now was the pentagon saying theyre going to create a socalled Syrian Border force the coalition is working jointly with the Syrian Democratic forces to establish and train the new Syrian BorderSecurity Force currently there are approximately two hundred thirty individuals training in the inaugural class with the goal of a final full size of approximately thirty thousand one very precise description of americas intentions there by that point turkey had had enough and curb beefed up its forces on the Syrian Border deployed tanks and president erdogan avowed. To destroy quote this terrorist force before washington even has a chance to create it u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson tried to do some damage control saying that the situation has been most portrayed misdescribed and that some people misspoke well that was a nearly enough to contain turkeys fury anchor out has been keeping the United States in the loop about the operation against washington supposed america which arguably pitted turkey against the kurds has now called on them to focus on the fight with eisele pretty much the same as saying its every man for himself in this conflict turkey has also notified syria about the action which damascus is not happy about at all russia in its turn has been cautious and called for all parties to pull the punches the main reason behind the developing crisis in this part of syria is the provocative steps taken by the United States which were aimed at isolating areas with predominantly kurdish populations uncontrolled deliveries by the pentagon more than weapons to pro american formations in Northern Syria contributed to the rapid escalation of tension in the region and led to special operation by turkish troops loose lips sink ships they say well this time were looking at a potential all out war done of r. T. Well our experts gave their views on how both turkey and the u. S. Have responded to the situation. Weve heard president roger play in oregon of turkey today even say that theyre going to go beyond member who were to the towards the border with iraq so thats as far east as the could go which is a bit threatening to derail its the apparently the turks are saying you know theyre using their feet you know the americans look were going to go on head on this this is very serious in our opinion and we hope that you dont you know do any military resistance and it would be a very sort of situation if we would have to shoot and be shot out by an ally like the United States or an it around what were seeing now is a total division on the part of those powers who made it their business to do state to wage a destabilizing war against syria over these past years countries like turkey and the u. S. Now seemingly out each others throats determined to do wipe out each others militias on the ground proxy militias on the ground it is amazing that the u. S. Is in the past week managed to completely betray both its rival allies in this in this conflict first a bit of a trail of turkey announcing this Border Security force made up primarily of kurds without any consultation with turkey and then as soon as turkey you make make an issue of it immediately drop the kurds altogether and sail with nothing to do with them and basically give turkey a free hand to slaughter them. Several fatalities have been reported in afghanistan after a group of gunmen attacked a major hotel in the capital Kabul Officials also say at least six people were injured there is no immediate claim of responsibility local journalist so ari reports from the city. According to several sources within the Afghan Special forces the forest and second floor has been cleared some rooms on the third floor either burned down and some of them of card fire and theres definitely battle on the fourth floor according to multiple sources within the Crisis Response unit team one fighter told me that he saw two people who were carried away from the third floor he couldnt really tell me whether they were injured or they were killed this is still an ongoing situation and this is also a hotel that got attacked in two thousand and eleven and we only heard in the last forty eight hours or so from the u. S. Embassy in kabul putting a security alert saying a number of hotels in government buildings in other locations one at risk of an attack obviously this sort of an attack Shows Security an intelligence failure but it also shows how the Afghan Government and its International Allies are finding themselves fight another fight on a very difficult front line which is the citys. Defense and security analysts come our alarm says a number of factors led to the relative success of the attack. I think unfortunately the afghan Security Forces are just not up to the standards or theres too much pressure on them and theres not much coordination between nato forces and the Afghan Police there are multiple threats theres the taliban theres theres ice is theres also has this law which is also in the government so there are a number of opponents and i think this simply isnt the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks because theyre happening on the regular basis one day its a civilian target one day its a military target one day its a Commercial Road or a hotel like today and to Counter Terrorism in afghanistan you need regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia in the Central Asian states at the moment to us is not really doing that