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In the wise words of harvey milk politics is theater it doesnt matter if you when you make a statement you say im here Pay Attention to me and so it was this week that for motive selfserving or compassionate Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took to the op to the house floor to put on some theater of her own holding the floor uninterrupted for eight hours and calling on congress to protect aka recipients from imminent deportation amidst a Government Spending battle the minority leader did certainly generate headlines but was ultimately outdone as the government appears to be on course for a long term Funding Agreement that once again leaves the questions of dreamers kicked a few more weeks down the road so as both left and right wait with bated breath to see what comes of this theatrical production were joined today by political analysts and commentators desk and Jonathan Harris to make sense of what exactly the audience can expect this week. From our favorite thank you so much you guys for coming out i want i want to start you know one of the central messages of closers speech was that she would not be supporting the broader budget deal thats being rolled out since she hasnt gotten a Firm Commitment that there would also be a vote a darker job that i will start with you during the shutdown of the democrats message and try to make clear that they werent shutting down the government over immigration doesnt this speech closing speech contradict that narrative that they support their earlier. No i dont i dont think so i think nancy pelosi was very clear that she was going to do this until they got a resolution on doc and you had paul ryan coming out today saying that he would bring a bill ford bring it to the floor for a vote and then it would have the president s signature so i think i think she got what she wanted i think she definitely put that out there and ensured that there would be a vote on docket ok and ryan that was her goal all right let me ask you though this weeks events it was also seemed to kind of reset everybodys narratives to a certain extent do you see this budget deal taking shutdowns you know off the table a win for any side or the other i mean was there a winner in this mess. Well what politicians will tell you is that that both sides win because republicans get more military spending and democrats get an extension on chip and a bunch of other goodies and i think that the people who lose are really millennia old and future taxpayers who are theyre just adding debt to their own more unfunded liabilities thats really the big tragic this entire deal and i think youre going to have people both on the left and the right opposed it already that the House Freedom caucus and the house this panic caucus that they are not voting for this bill. Democrats are allegedly a corner lou is good sierras he said today on c. N. N. That the democrats are not whipping the votes to kill the bill but they are not what the the votes really to pass the bill either so i mean well see rand paul of speaking on the senate floor right now hes probably against the bill. Yeah it was a mess as far as nancy pelosi what did she get she got a lot of attention for and not much else. Have anything to say to that a. C. But again i love your. I mean she got exactly what she wanted she said that she wanted an agreement on doco from the house side and paul ryan came out and said again emphatically that he would bring something to the floor for a vote on daca and that it would pass and would get the president s signature so i think to say that she didnt get anything out of it is not entirely accurate she got exactly would she want to. Know youre misunderstanding what paul ryan said paul ryan said he would bring President Trumps immigration bill to the floor that doesnt mean she is getting what she wanted what she wanted what a lot of progress is want to was a clean doc a bill or some that really was ninety percent pro democrats have percent for republican paul ryan is saying theyre saying hes going to bring the floor of the bill to a bill to the floor thats going to end chain migration thats really what paul ryan was saying no and was saying that a very nice way he said he was going to bring a resolution for daca to the floor and that would be voted on and signed by that. Rather than just from getting. Right i guess you can say and President Trump said that he supported resolution four doco for dreamers so i mean i guess you can play semantics or suggest that hes playing semantics with it but if you take him at face value with what he said then again like i said she got what she wanted unless you think that somehow he was. Tiptoeing around his words to mislead her and the American People in the media that he was talking to their power which i guess is all they do is tiptoe around folks like mislead the American People set up their own i hope right and youre not going to get any argument from me that i think paul ryan and the writer are regularly liars so maybe we can agree on that but i mean if what he said was what i heard was what he meant and he wasnt being intentionally misleading then nancy pelosi got what she wanted ok well then theres the people sitting on and let the teams that nobody seems to really be happy ultimately with this with the budget agreement or this budget arrangement so people on the left feel betrayed because they feel like its being pushed through before daucus fix before theres really been like youre saying a real solid plan on the table and a lot of people on the right are starting to oppose or opposed because there are huge spending hikes the deals impact on the deficit these are things that you know fiscal conservatives you know wherever you are socially fiscal conservatives arent liking the idea of more money and no cots to a certain things like if we need how does that i mean im just wondering where that is ryan coming through thats been the g. O. P. Leadership seems to be simply paying off moderate democrats with spending giveaways in an attempt to fight the immigration battle on more favorable terms what happened to republicans promising to cut the National Debt and eliminate budget deficits because that is what i keep i get i hear all the time from republicans and conservatives where the spending i was i would love to know rand paul said you know fiscal conservatives where are you and i would i would absolutely love to know that you know a. George carlin family say when whenever politicians wrap themselves around children the flag or troops the American People are getting screwed and thats this bill this hundred fifty billion dollars in adding four military spending is not going to the troops the troops are receiving ten thousand dollars each are a big bonus as are big wage increases this is to military contractors in Northern Virginia this is to dumb donors this is absolute garbage this entire bill and it should go down the flaming pile. In a pile of flames rather but i think that i think that i think that right now what theyre doing is enjoying their majority and theyre just throwing that i mean theyre throwing away the sequester the tea party with the tea Party Promise the only victory the tea party had was the sequester and theyre killing it is mind blowing well let me ask you jonathan that this all sort of deal the whole deal sort of hinges on moderate vulnerable democrats putting having to make the decision about putting government funding before the partys immigration platform mummy ask you this doesnt this imply that the democrats arent as unified on immigration and on their platform as we been led to believe. I wouldnt say that theyre not unified i think that you always have kind of two bodies in both parties you have you know the conservatives that are supporting this bill the paul ryan arm of the party i guess if you will on the right and then you have the Freedom Caucus part of the right that is furious about this and sees this is excessive spending i think the democrats are the same i think you have more mainstream kind of nancy pelosi democrats and you have you know the more kind of loose Luis Gutierrez kind of arm of the democrats that are wondering why there wasnt you know why they didnt stand their ground on this and get more support for dreamers so i think at the end of the day this is what bipartisanship looks like and this is what the American People say they want but then you have you you have this and then you have them going why did this happen i dont want this but this is what the American People say they want and this is exactly what bipartisanship looks like theres theres domestic spending one hundred thirty billion dollars worth of domestic spending but then you also have the spending for the military which the right said they wanted so again i think yeah i think the more extreme arms of both parties arent pleased but this is bipartisanship. One things that im sorry to say one thing that i think a big part of that also is that if you look at internal polling and public polling and you look at them the issues that galvanize democrats immigration like six or seven as much as the democrat politicians have a carrot immigration democratic voters overwhelmingly its either health care and the economy education and immigration is like seven or eight immigration a much bigger issue for republicans and as for democrats and i just think that they would rather be able to deliver a chip extensions of one Concern Health care is more important to their vote which they got which is more important their voters and then the doctor as much as they sit there and say its important that we have these i think that was a really interesting point you brought up john of the its sometimes hard for people to i think especially in todays. Dare i say culture its hard for people to see compromise correctly you know its kind of like ok were going to have a little bit of a compromise ever got to meet a little bit in the middle because its so hard to do that because everyone kind of has either their pet projects or their baby. No one wants to kill their babies everyone gets their thing and everybody ration about one thing right and do you do you do are we going to see i mean when you see these four factions of whats called for factions you see you know democrats split into two things the public and split the two things are we going to see this fracture out into four maybe the individual groups that become their own parties or is this going to still Stay Together were going to still kind of have those two parties stalemate i think it will i think a large part of it will hinge upon how they handle the theater aspect of this going forward. Considering that this passes and theres a Government Shutdown has avoided considering how they go and take this back to their constituents thats how were going to see if this plays out well if you see the Freedom Caucus for example continuing to hammer away at this and saying that its a mistake i think youre going to see a fracture i think if you see the kind of Luis Gutierrez part of the democrats saying you know why didnt you stand your ground on dr why didnt you stand your ground on doc and they go back to their constituency and brand of the democrat the nancy pelosi arm as well as not having stood up for daca then youll see a fracture but if they kind of paint this as this kind of tip Oneill Reagan era of bipartisanship is a good thing for the country i dont think youll see a fracture at all i think youll see a more united front process and i got to run more parties they do i got to run i got one quick question i want to throw at you very quickly is so this is a two year extension if this passes that means that were talking twenty twenty which is the next president ial Election Year is that not kind of a trap for both parties the fall into them that theyre going to have a huge budget fight in the twenty twenty president ial Election Year. Oh this is congress they dont sing more than three weeks at a time. They think your way overplaying their own lets say ok you with. The right it was a good job it was there you say if you go it always occurs every goes over there you. Will think it was a. 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Because youre more than one for yourself forward to get out of this with you if you think that the area were going to go with. The variations youll push through for through personal first in two zero zero zero people you do when youre at the National Borders and could be putting your work in rivers here we are in the world now as you know can we. In america a College Degree requires a great deal. Paying a decades long debt. Studying so hard it requires strong just. Going through humiliation to enter an elite society. And parching to death sometimes quite literally. Want other true colors of universities in the u. S. The pentagon recently released its new Nuclear Posture review its critics are stunned not only the use of Nuclear Weapons is now more thinkable but its also been pressure old for their use has been lowered dr strangelove would be proud is the world facing another gain tourist arms race. I. The fate of dozens of russian athletes hangs in the balance the court of arbitration for sport is about to issue a last minute ruling on whether they can take part in the Winter Olympics in south korea. Syria calls on the u. N. To hold the u. S. Coalition to account for wednesdays airstrikes targeting progovernment forces u. S. Central command says the attack was to defend an american backed group. Republican lawmakers in the u. S. Are threatening to cut funding to a Global CancerResearch Program after it linked americas most widely used wheeled killer made by Client Company one son to cancer. This is r. T. International coming to you live from moscow im Kate Partridge thank you for joining us. But first syria has called on the u. N. To hold the u. S. Led coalition to account for wednesdays airstrikes against progovernment forces the number of casualties has not yet been confirmed but some reports claim up to one hundred people could have been killed the u. S. Central command described the attack as a defensive move but Russias Defense Ministry said the unit was hit as it was carrying out an operation against an i s cell. And for every the seventh while carrying out an operation to locate and terminate an eyesore sleeper cell form oil refinery the units of progovernment forces were suddenly sholden in hit by airstrikes by the u. S. Led coalition this was overkill if the numbers are true. Demonstration of sheer brute force perhaps you know to send perhaps the send a message nevertheless the United States says that its its in syria and it will defend its. And it had the right to defend itself in this instance Syrian Democratic forces acted in self defense with support from the coalition to defeat an unprovoked attack by Syrian Forces in Eastern Syria if the situation is like how they describe that they were indeed attacks while fighting isis to make up the right to selfdefense one of you take them at face value you could think so but the people they just killed were also fighting isis and recently they had been making much better progress against isis then the United StatesLed Coalition or their Partner Forces the the s. D. F. The Syrian Government has of course called all of this an act of aggression unwarranted and unjust but just for you information all of this happened in there is or near a rich oil field and refinery conoco its called it was liberated last year by the u. S. Led coalition very quickly and in fact. U. S. Partner forces seem to have a knack for liberating areas with the oil under them much quicker than they do those areas that dont have oil under them since since all the oil rich areas were taken in that as ordered by the s. D. F. Progress against isis seems to have dropped to a snails pace but you know regardless here america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis the very isis has been all but defeated in syria but you dont see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether its in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that the United States will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot reemerge. Total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad continue his brutal treatment against his own people so as to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement that is typical of current u. S. Diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria Rex Tillerson peter he stated that their only goal in syria was the defeat of ice or now theyve got farmland bushs plans would mark the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying on general matters said that the United States will stay in syria will fight in syria for as long as the United States wants to fight in syria i mean thats you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange to syria and invite it and while there you start killing syrians in syria in selfdefense. Or regional experts told us that with Islamic State practically gone from syria washington is now targeting the countrys government instead. They are not just in syria to fight their own. Have been in syria for a long time because they want to throw aside as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the Syrian Forces themselves and largely defeated di is the priority of overthrowing assad because to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white house so i think thats really the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the protocol prone the reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and so on they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of a defeated diet inside syria that policy that reassert itself this is coming at the end of a long war the United States has taken about twenty eight percent of syrian territory and over fifty percent of its oil this is leverage in order to roll back iran and get rid of my site i said yes i did he wants to do well for himself there was a race only a few months ago that would get those fields and hes probing undoubtedly under the pretext of biting isis the United States didnt think it was so the United States is trying to lay down the law here and not let anybody probe and as we know the turks threatened and meant it could take on the americans over there so the United States i think its very patients that both syria and turkey will begin to push america out try to push american out of Northern Syria but he likes there. Has found no evidence that russia interfered in the u. K. s brechts that referendum thats according to the companys global head of Public Policy has testified in front of a u. K. House of commons committee. We looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the referendum but we dont look in the survey for the pay for advertising the election but actually the operation of channels will go to films which show which can be linked back to russia nations who have a political purpose a message through the referendum would you be able to do that for us we are happy to cooperate with that investigation so its yes yes but spite these are endless attempts to accuse russia of brechts that meddling in this pressure on Online Platforms to expose any shady business that russia might have been up to yet another revelation this time from you tube that nothing of sort had happened and this indeed as yet another session of the u. K. Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into feek news who this time travel to washington to ask their questions but it has to be said that despite all of their hard work this inquiry has produced no results of substance so far if you remember previously this committee seems to have been sort of left hanging by twitter we found that one percent of the accounts in the dataset were registered in russia could you confirm how many other accounts were being controlled from agencies in russia even if they were not registered there we do not have sufficiently strong evidence to enable us to conclusively linked them with russia the failure to obtain straight answers is simply increasing concerns about these issues rather than reassuring people well this as google also said they found no evidence of russian meddling in the brics that referendum as well as of course facebook following their investigation having said that they found that russia spent seventy three p. On any kind of posts related to bracks it. Meanwhile a u. K. Campaign to reverse the breaks it has received a hefty financial boost from american billionaire george soros the best Britain Group has confirmed he donated almost half a Million Pounds through his foundation. George soros foundations have along with a number of other major donors made significant contributions to our work indeed through his foundation he has contributed four hundred thousand pounds hes funding is one among many sources. Best of britain is a pro e. U. Lobby Group Pushing for a second bracks it referendum one of their key principles is that need not leave the e. U. The Campaign Hopes to influence the opinion of the public and politicians on the issue downing street was quick to react to resume a spokesperson insisted there will be no second referendum as the country has already voted to leave the e. U. Human and labor rights lawyer dan kadlec says the u. K. Is now experiencing the kind of foreign meddling that happens in other countries we know that george soros some self has played a role in interfering in many a country in some of the color revolutions socalled color revolutions in Eastern Europe for example and of course we know that the Us Government itself has and continues to meddle quite seriously in other peoples elections with in other peoples political processes for example secretary of state Television Just were recently on a trip to latin america he called for the military in venezuela to overthrow their democratically elected president i think for countries like the u. S. The u. K. I think their view is they can read on anyone elses political processes that will but other people cant participate in there so i mean it is a double standard clearly a double standard and i think again the u. S. Will protect that double standard. To the hilt and we see that time and time again. Republican lawmakers in the u. S. 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