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Welcome back to the kaiser report im max has or time now to turn to four time mayor of pittsburgh and he also led the North CarolinaDemocratic Party its randiv already welcome back to the kaiser report its great to be here max ok so were coming up on twenty eighteen is a way the president you know he has a big downward movie gets crushed you know after being in office a bit theres a reversal but this president has caught the eye of some interesting folks you know his tax cuts have led to praise even from democratic leaning california corporations like apple or celebrities like bill murray you know normally in midterm elections the party in power is kicked in the teeth but these tax cuts seems to have you know really grab peoples attention even in the Democratic Party where you think well money is always going to grab peoples attention you know we all knew that apple was offshoring all their profits and now when theyve lowered the rates from thirty five to twenty one and some of the other things in that tax bill theyre able to move billion tens of billions of dollars around to their benefit the question is whats becoming of a lot of this money i mean one what i read in bloomberg and other sources are corporations are buying their stock back yeah why would they buy the stock right exactly theyre more into Financial Engineering then to cap x. Theyre not building out theyre not growing their businesses as such theyre just engage in accounting tricks to increase the executives pay more lastly because of the legislation passed in the Clinton Administration which kept what you could write off they get the stock option so i predicted they would do that last fall and theyre buying a lot of stock back so of course you know apple is happy because they had hundreds of billions of dollars caught up in this or at least tens of billions and very wealthy people are happy and anyone that has an s. Corp is happy because they changed the rules there and you had an s. Corporate also you might decide to make a c. Chord now because heck your tax rate went to twenty one percent so to. Twenty eighteen now mean this is playing well to the crowd yes. Democratic party grain kind of laying out the the lay of the land for us and twenty sixteen and looking at what was contributing to that dynamic in that election what can we look forward to in twenty seen in a nafta is nafta now back in play is this part of the mix well it depends what President Trump decides to do it meaning he certainly pulled out of the deal in asia immediately that obama had been working on and obviously a lot of progressives oppose so its highly likely that hes going to try to amend or change nafta. And of course how does that play and you know this whole open borders thing and then this issue with the wall on immigration i think theyre all connected i mean his base is worried that the country is becoming grayer and the country is becoming browner and they all know by two thousand and fifty it will be a white white population will be the majority minority so i think a lot of these moves are fear as are facing the future the people have never lived in i think nancy pelosi race and they said her greatest aspiration is i want to for a grand kids would be brown. What does that mean well i think that shes probably realizing it at her age and her position in california of course she comes from baltimore her you know her relatives were the mayors of baltimore and shes probably thinking of inclusive any that you know things that used to be taboo biracial marriages you know loving versus virginia in sixty eight used to be illegal i mean you know all most of these people dont forget grew up you know at the end of the jim crow era that are still in power i mean i think the twenty eighteen elections are going to be about you know the politics of women and progressivism and democratic socialism versus the politics of dog whistles and White Supremacy fair enough so lets talk about women in politics because that sams there is a groundswell of activity amongst women in politics the very active all over the country and is this trend of course after the may two movement and after a lot of controversy the twenty six election involving trump is going to now say a wave of women in office and what does that portend randi were going to see a with a wave of women running for office and then my sumption is a number of these women will win and what were going to see is the change of values that are implemented in washington and state capitals and county seats across this country because women tend to look at issues a bit differently than men and there are gender differences in this and i think thats a good thing i mean we need to have people at the table they need to be there in the Decision Making process and i think that those are the kind of changes that this country needs lets talk about focus for a second the Democratic Party they are still focused on some of these issues from a year ago the socalled russia gate for example or they may be wasting Political Capital at this point on chasing that where they could be looking at Something Else at this stage of the game that might give them greater panics. Nation into the hearts and minds of the voter well i mean the Mueller Investigation and what you term russia gate you know thats kind of keeping alive. Peoples thoughts and kind of the negativity around trumps when. But the truth of the matter is simply that you cant be a party or a Political Movement that is opposed to everything you have to be a party that is for something and thats what youre getting at right so what your program and you know and you know leader schumer has been asked that others have been asked that youve got to come out clearly and one and say what do we stand for well you know there are those senators and leaders in d. C. That have said that i mean they stand for universal health care for instance they stand for supporting the dreamers they stand for a number of progressive moves that would be good for this country the problem is that at the very top whether its the republican or Democratic Party its you know youve got your left wing in your right wing but the plane is the corporate plane then thats the ultimate problem the money issue well you know the. Jobs issue is was really driving a lot of the votes and twenty sixteen great disenfranchisement in america from coast to coast people were feeling as though they were not participating in the economy trump brought in these tax cuts that it had at the moment and great effect increasing jobs increasing salaries they got amazon with twenty thousand new jobs youve got Apple Computer going to create twenty thousand new jobs so the voter a goes to the voting box they are looking at their paycheck and their think and you know why would i change at this point i think that focusing on amazon and focusing on apple is just our obsession with focusing on the whales you know whales dont live in an environment with an awful lot of plant in i mean you need to have everything in the economic biosphere so to speak right and that means Small Businesses that means medium size businesses they like to do. That because it catches peoples attention that were got twenty thousand jobs or a Small Businesses or they want out of the economy of millions and millions of jobs its just a drop in this modern business is reporting increasing activity theyre hiring theyre expanding i mean its trickling down i mean the trickle down the way for about since reagan actually is trickling down i dont think that thats its thats not the reason we already had expansion in this economy coming forward there already was growth you can look at the trend line from two thousand and nine but also recently there exactly has it made hockey they said because because the tax code were giving everybody in a Company Thousand bucks thats writing thats real money well you could have been giving everyone money by actually supporting other programs that people could spend for instance you know when people have section eight and they get rent vouchers who owns all that real estate thats rent the comes in your pocket thats hunt thats thousand dollars every month yeah thousand dollars one time divided over twelve than i take out some for the tax man so fair enough so youre if youre comparing what you would describe as a gimmick versus a more structural reform that could be sustainable over a generation that be more meaningful i think is why youre so we describe it is like getting on a sugar high what happens after that to follow up on this you are a mayor a what do you think of these various cities across america prostrating themselves at the feet of jeff bezos begging for amazon to open their Second Headquarters there well the Way Economic Development works in our country is we foresman this apologies counties and states to compete against each other as opposed to having an o. A coherent policy or Manufacturing Policy thats unified that so you dont have people throwing you know tax breaks and this and that at these various companies so i would just say that those and others are you know playing by the rules of the system and forcing the politicians you know to come to them you know with the best offer i mean the truth of the matter is they want to do a Ribbon Cutting and say we just opened a new plant that created ten thousand jobs thats a lot more sexy and. Trysting than saying i just worked with you know five thousand businesses that created two jobs. Trying to hit home runs and sort of get walks and signals or throwing the home or throwing the long ball back to the baseball metaphors that we love so much here in North Carolina we do i do yeah you know so what is now the attitude in the Democratic Party may i mean i hear what youre saying a sound you know like youre trying to. Bring it up bring it all together and like rational you know i was underestimated tromp and it looks like thats going to continue i mean. Whats going to derail this guy i mean theres no skeleton in the closet same Strong Enough to do. Nobody in washington can stop him hes got his twitter sphere that he just broadcasts irakli with goes through mobile round Mainstream Media hes out is unstoppable. Going to stop with the Electoral College was designed to stop a person like trump and it did because our institutions have been failing for decades thats a very interesting point the Electoral College was designed to stop a charismatic lets say person from garnering the popular vote in a way that would be representational to the nation as a whole and somehow he defeated that and won the electoral vote how was that possible against the most widely anticipated when in american president ial history for hillary well on on a lot of levels i mean it wasnt just donald trump you know republican policy makers you know and americans for prosperity and other groups have been you know working on ways to suppress the vote since obama won i mean this is about the politics of race as well this is about the politics of preserving White Privilege and white power so i mean these things were already there this table was set and donald just kind of elbowed his way into the room he benefited. From suppression in wisconsin when i told you how he could win i laid out the states that he could win based on what reagan democrats did in the past and based on how sanders did in the primary and it happened but lets not forget that in wisconsin tens of thousands of people were not able to vote based on voter id laws that were rammed through by support from the Koch Brothers and others why because they know if certain populations vote their ideas will not win which is why they dont want to have a huge turnout they win when the turn on a smaller and speaking about twenty eighteen yes there could be a blue wave but whats holding it back is a red firewall whats that right fire wall gerrymandering most of these districts are impossible to win in. Right now theres that being a state that is the most gerrymandered probably in the country as far apart for im hearing you would know better but as at the case yes North Carolina is rated on indices you know from people around the world where they look at actual countries and lets not forget weve got ten Million People in the states or worse as large as many countries as being one of the least democratic places on the planet when they rate you know election interfering. Maybe domestically instead of looking from outside forces there any way down to go your own numbers man weve got to go thank you man the guys report thank you for having me on report all right lets go do it for this edition of the kaiser a part of me max keiser and stacy ever i think gets ready voller venerate us on twitter its kaiser report and select on. Similar to the sports. Because. Of the sort of the. Beautiful yes good good new books and talking to. 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People begging me dont do it dont do it dont do it and we did the right thing washington said its the date for the relocation of its embassy in israel to jerusalem not some move the palestinians say could destroy any hope of a peace settlement. On the story Three Friends were straining to challenge themselves to a grueling ninety kilometer crosscountry skiing race in sweden under from the strain despite never having tried this before we follow the progress see they get on. By their live from moscow at the weekend with kevin owen well welcome to you for this latest half hour news update on the latest from syria first im a track of whats happening there syrian state media reporting that islamist militants in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta have launched a fresh round of mortar shelling on residential areas in the nearby capital today. At least one person said to have been killed and fifteen injured its the second time of bombardment by insurgents has caused casualties in damascus this week. Is a suburb of the capital very close to the main city there its been under siege by progovernment troops since twenty thirteen but the violence has dramatically intensified of late as Regime Forces attempt to topple the last rebel stronghold close to damascus according to some estimates more than four hundred fifty people have been killed in the district this week thats led the un to call on all sides to immediately and hostilities members of the Security Council indeed are expected to decide soon. Whether to adopt an amended cease fire resolution and say its expected later saturday their vote was pushed through friday after disagreements rose over parts of the statement the original draft which proposed a thirty day truce and the evacuation of people in need of medical treatment was rejected by russia it said that there was no guarantee the militants would abide by the agreement moscow also stressed it wont to the group to be excluded from the truce. Which is the main problem in eastern time well as i mentioned hes consciously or unconsciously to do the same as the other Syrian Rebels jim how to loose freeze not being touched and we still dont have evidence that the Coalition Led by the United States is treating it as a real target and of course we draw the attention of our american colleagues to that fact we dont see our comments having any effect well its been a tough days of rhetoric and negotiations now it all relates to the district of Eastern Ghouta thats east of damascus a suburb that is currently under the control of the rebels and terrorists that the Syrian Government is trying to retake the city in an anti terror operation the anti terror operation is being widely criticized by western leaders recently we even heard from the u. S. President donald trump what russia and what iran and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that were there for one reason were there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home. Were not there for any other reason and weve largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace the leaders of the International Community are in full agreement that civilian life in eastern is very important and that the conditions are dire all want to make sure that civilians are safe however there are clear disagreements among World Leaders about who is to blame for the situation in eastern guta. Many western officials been voicing staunch opposition to the syrian operation in that militant stronghold but russia has accused them of double standards particularly after the muted response to the campaign to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from Islamic State which also had a devastating impact on civilians. By the escalation and strikes me as to humanitarian disaster systematic targeting of civilians this is how ongoing slaughter of trap civilians its about the kids of the Syrian Government as well and we call on them backers including russia to make sure that this violence stops. In iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because its their city being liberated they understand what they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price and avoidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite their responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis the good guys and munitions people on the battlefield the difference another view on it political. John white says the western powers misrepresentation of the situation actually on the ground there and going to will only add to the suffering of civilians regime change propaganda has entered the realms of the fantastic quirin groups such as nusra front and jash his line which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which are here to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no been depicted theres rebels partisans of Second World War repute whereby the syrian army made up of conscripts soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multireligious was a Syrian Society of you know being painted as a lot of the waffen s. S. An army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative walked into a new city or comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of the civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the Syrian Government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. Also headlines this weekend us to set a date for when it will move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem its set to be made the fourteenth which coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the israeli state heres what president trying to say about the decision which has been causing fury across the arab world and beyond people calling begging me dont do it dont do it dont do it campaign against it was so incredible but you know what the campaign for it was also incredible and we did the right thing so tensions running high on thursday a group of palestinian activists attacked a u. S. Delegation visiting research and Polling Center in the west bank city of ramallah the americans were pelted with eggs and to be evacuated from the area since december when trump took the decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital with him twenty palestinians have been killed and around a thousand others injured in demonstrations. Right. Next americans go more of the symbolism of washingtons move for the for the resulted from it but put it simply trump said he doesnt care what the world thinks about his decision to move the embassy to jerusalem which actually supports israels claims to the city but when he says the campaign against his decision was incredible he means this. The terrorists never. Forgot. Her. Even though trump doesnt care people in the region do today we saw clashes in hebron continue which israel on the other hand is praising its minister for transportation thank trump in a tweet even called him a friend of a back in december in a Security Council vote of fourteen countries condemned to trounce recognition of jerusalem as israels capital and including and among those were staunch u. S. Allies like the u. K. And france and in the General Assembly one hundred and twenty eight countries got the use of the detail obstructed the Security Council and unable to perform his duties and do dead kids a work of the International Community but it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of Palestinian People and must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very threatened or he. This is bullying and this jumbled will not. Now despite International Backlash the state department has notified congress that its embassy will be bouvard to jerusalem on may fourteenth which is much sooner than originally planned last month Vice President pence said the embassy would be moved by the end of twenty nineteen but like you said may fourteenth also happens to be the day is