Greetings and salutation. Recently while traveling internationally over the holidays me for a legal u. S. Born and raised was subjected to having my face scanned by the department of Homeland Security not only when i return to the United States from my travels abroad but at the very beginning of my trip as well now legally u. S. Citizens like me can opt out of these but in no way was that made aware to us at the departing gate nor were we told that upon reentry instead we got the brusque dystopian style treatment weve seen in many a Science Fiction film that left many of us me and my fellow travelers feeling violated or simply wanting to travel beyond us borders. But if having your face scanned by a faceless Government Agency feels invasive imagine what immigrants and refugees must feel like when after their long hard trek to the shining city on the hill that is the United States the u. S. Government reaches into their mouths and takes the very strands that make up the core of their being regardless of their consent im talking of course about the new Pilot Program launched this january by the u. S. Government that will not only collect d. N. A. Samples from the thousands upon thousands of people that are detained regularly by the u. S. Immigration officials but then they will send those samples to our trusted friends at the federal bureau of investigation to be held indefinitely in their criminal database in a memo released by the department of Homeland Security the New York Times reports that u. S. Citizens and permanent residents holding a green card who are detained could be subject to d. N. A. Testing as well as Asylum Seekers seekers and people entering the country without authorization and that refusing to submit d. N. A. Do submit your d. N. A. Could lead to a misdemeanor criminal charge. My goodness from facial scans in our airports to d. N. A. Swabs at our borders seems that now more than never it is a very good time to start watching the hawks. This week. But like you that i got. To. Know them are going to watching the hawks i am to roll them for and joining me today to discuss the taking of d. N. A. And facial stands by the United States government at our borders investigative journalist ben swan ben now yeah i know that you like myself have recently traveled internationally were you going to ask were you subject to having your face scanned upon departure the way i was and was there any signage or helpful notices informing that you that as a u. S. Citizen you can opt out of these scans if you want to know i heres what was interesting so i actually went to australia leaving the u. S. I did not have to go through any kind of face scan but coming back into the country i did have to go through it when we landed we actually landed in l. A. Accident l. A. X. They forced us to go through a facial scanning because they didnt even make us fill out the forms you know when you get on a plane and youre traveling into the country or into a new country coming out here you have to fill out a customs form right and then submit the form but they said you dont need to submit the forms but we got off the plane we did have to have our faces scanned so our faces rescanned in order to go through that process and whats really interesting about this story tyrell though is that most people dont realize this d. H. S. S. Has been wanting to do this for a long time and not just on International Flights for people coming into the country or leaving the country they were pushing as of april of last year. Or to actually have facial scans in every airport for every domestic flight so if you get on the domestic flight they wanted to mandate that you had to go through a facial scan they couldnt get that through there were too many fights and legal challenges from the a. C. L. U. So instead they decided to move on International Flights and thats where it is right now you know what it was going to ask what is their excuse or why what are the reasons that theyre saying that we need these scans and i mean it do they have a justifiable excuse beyond the kind of you know omnipresent well and it makes things safer roads for security and things like that and do the civil liberty issues with this outweigh the support these supposed security benefits. Well thats what we dont know in terms of the legal standing of whether or not it outweighs that look yeah youre absolutely right the excuse thats being used thats always to this right is this is about security protecting the homeland weve got to know its coming and we have to be able to recognize whos getting on planes because those of course are the greatest threats to our National Security or you know planes in the hands of wrong people 20 years later this is the line thats still being used after 911 but heres whats interesting is that we dont know as to whether or not a court would ever side with the government on this because as i said they backed off when the a. C. L. U. Began challenging them saying you cant just scan every single face thats getting on an airplane because essentially what youre doing is youre creating a barrier to the right to travel we have a constitutional right to be able to move about and encumbered and so if you make it essentially a process where you have to be searched and have a facial scan in order to get on a plane youre preventing people from being able to do that because the only option now would be to say i want to get on a plane so we dont know where the courts would fall on it because the a. C. L. U. Never got a chance to challenge it but again it has already happened here on these International Flights and i think it should be challenged in court as well whether or not you should be forced to have facial stance taken before youre allowed inside the country you know its interesting too because when i look when i think about what i want through without that that bothered me but then when i read another story about the fact that you know immigrants and even green card Holding People travelling into this country and you know people so you can you know refugees are now getting their d. N. A. Swab at the border that just got implemented the beginning of january that really frightens me and it raises the question in the mind maybe you can help me answers why why do we need to collect the d. N. A. Of citizens and noncitizens who are taken into custody by customs and Border Patrol i mean that sounds absolutely crazy especially when you look at you know the it just sounds nuts to me when you look at it because it by the time they even get it over to the f. B. I. These people have already been let loose anyway right so the people have already been let loose. The type of d. N. A. Samples we get to the f. B. I. So it makes you question why would we need a. D. N. A. Reservoir of all the different people who are coming into the country illegally and where as you said certain green card holders now were being told us citizens will have to go through this but think about just the sheer numbers so p. H. S. Saying about last last year they took about 7000. 00 d. N. A. Swabs theyre expecting this year once out of this is that put into place taking about 7 148000 swat thats a massive difference right 7748000 where would you be catalogued who will keep them how will they be useful and heres another question for you so you know d. N. A. Samples the biggest track people what its not like oh well someone took their d. N. A. Sample return the list of the country now we can find that we need them with the life slots we have 5 after the fact so if somebody later on i suppose the rest of it and then matched the d. N. A. Then you would have a match but how would that serve a purpose that has any kind of usefulness to it i think thats the big question around us we dont know what answer that seems like an awful lot of waste of time energy and money for an issue that really we the initiative is important you know immigration and what to do with these refugees is important at the end of the day i dont think that swapping their d. N. A. Is going to make that any easier or any any better at the end of day but i want to thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on and bringing your insight to our audience thank you sir. Several things. With tensions still white hot following the United States assassination of Iranian Military leader qassim solo money and irans were told tori strikes on u. S. Military bases in iraq it doesnt take a team of experts or political prognosticators the tell you that before the end of 2020 war between the United States and iran is a very real tangible possibility but what are the American People ready for a potential u. S. War against iran i mean does the American People really know today that the cia actually deposed to be a coup a democratically elected leader of iran back in 1953 and action that led to much of the antiu. S. Sentiment we see today can u. S. Citizens even find iran on a map thats a good question well a recent poll done by politico interviewed nearly 2000 registered voters and found out that nearly 80 percent of them couldnt actually locate the middle eastern country so many questions well r. T. Americas own john he took to the streets of miami to put political findings to the test and here is his report. A new survey by the research for Morning Consult a new site politico finds that quote fewer than 3 in 10 registered voters can identify the Islamic Republic on an unlabeled map the poll was conducted january 4th and 5th after the u. S. Killed iranian general qassam saloon money and just days before iran bombed a us air base in iraq 28 percent of the 1995 registered voters surveyed in the poll were able to accurately locate iran on an on label map of the middle east region only 23 percent could identify iran on a larger also unlabeled map well we printed out our own unlabeled world map and hit the streets of miami to see if people here had any better luck pointing out iran im doing a poll talking to people can you point out iran on this map. You help me with that. I think is in this general area here youre absolutely correct yes point out iran on the map iran. Here right there you got it right around here. Pretty much tell you what value iran youve got the middle east region iran. Next and you know that saudi arabia is the its his big one here is iraq here. Runs right there its right there so yeah yeah i will say thats what i said yeah yeah. Its. Right there he got it on iran out on this map iran. Iran iran a country add iran iran. Does right here oh thats africa but close close what about you can you point out i can just point out but you tell me very sure its right here is this it is this it now right there you know its. One of the if you get to be on t. V. And that they are by the way those young men said if the u. S. Did go to war with iran they think the u. S. Quote would hold its own speaking of which the Morning Consult political poll also found that while most people surveyed supported the u. S. Strike on general soleimani 69 percent said the attack made war with iran more likely and half said they thought it made the United States less safe. Oh brad i guess those folks down in miami do actually they can actually pick ron out on the map all right everybody as we go to break watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered on our social media be sure to check out watching the box the podcast with is now available and spotify awful music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or maybe not so favorite podcast coming up representatives from both the left and the right of us politics join us to debate and discuss some of the most important unique news stories of the day including social Media Censorship surrounding the rising tensions between the United States and the state to watch in the fall. As the democrats gear up to officially start their 2020 president ial primary that is fitting to assess Donald Trumps performance in office a report card of sorts where is he kept his promises and where has he come up short will any of this really matter. Descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose his pet Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sound last name was necessarily good for the pet turns out may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge epidemic of toms all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats. Larger corporations are not very interested in disproving the value of their food because there are 2000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. The breed of of speech and expression is one of the most important if not the most important tenet of any Free Thinking Society that is why it became our very 1st amendment to the Us Constitution but what happens when the freedom of speech and expression runs headlong into u. S. Foreign policy and corporate interests this is what we are seeing play out in real time as c. N. N. Business is reporting that instagram and its Parent Company facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain iranian commander because im stolen money to comply with u. S. Sanctions you see stolen money and the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps were designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization last april which means that any social media posts in support of the Iranian Military leader could be viewed as supporting a terrorist in fact after solmonese killing instagram suspended at least 15 accounts belonging to a rainy and journalists according to a Statement Released by the International Federation of journalists when pressed as to why a facebook spokesperson told the media that quote we operate under u. S. Sanction laws including those related to the us governments designation of the i r g c and its leadership well joining me now to practice a little free speech on this story and more including the upcoming final democratic president ial candidate debate before the Iowa Democratic caucuses are 2 voices representing the left and the right in u. S. Politics democrat strategist and political analysts. And across im so sorry. G. O. P. Strategist bill leak of fuel i apologize for that i just talked about that with my bow and im so sorry lets get into this i want to ask you both should instagram and other social media. Be silencing reporters journalists or anyone who shows support for solo money or iran or which ill say absolutely no i think that this is a clear violation of the freedom of speech but i also feel like these in this particular case these are journalists the expectation that they are going to uncover and from from their viewpoint being journalists who are based in based in iran being journalists who are going to have a vision of iran that a lot of our american journalists do not who also have a historical understanding of whats going on in the sense that also our journalists do not and even americans many have questioned whether or not the killing of solo money was actually legitimate whether or not the timing was actually a legitimate whether or not this president had the authority to do so considering the fact that he has not present the case for why this was an imminent threat so i dont think that this should have been that their statement been removed at all but if you know now absolutely not and i feel this way even there was a discussion that we had a probably a few weeks ago about whether or not Donald Trumps twitter should be suspended in things like that you know i had i dont support censorship across the board and i think that that you know like i mean she said theres a lot of information you know someone who actually follows whats going on i actually do know where iran is over there but this is one of those instances where i think there is an overreaching government there appears to be an inconsistency because as we saw i think you know if twitter. Twitters twitter its not going to do that so its really just facebook and instagram but i think this really is just an overreach and maybe theyre trying to align themselves with what they feel as if its the u. S. Sanction and i understand like the u. S. Sanctions argument but most people dont understand that even if were journalists are in the process of delivering news especially in a region like iran so you know even even if that news lets say is against us Foreign Policy but we have a lot of news that is shared shared widely now that you know fake nudes or news that are supporting supportive of different regimes or even organizations that we may not like but i think that if were talking. About a free press i think that we should just have it all out there yes you can you can turn away from it you dont actually have to watch it but i think this is just its going down a very very very thin line between that type of censorship and what we look at because weve seen these social Media Companies go after you know voices of opposition on both the left and the right over the past year which is really interesting and now theyre private businesses they have a right to decide who is or is not on their platform but it is interesting seeing this kind of play out like this i want to also has this this week President Trump tweeted in a long tweet but i want to pull this out of the usa is watching this you tweeted this to around turn your internet back on and let your reporters room free now trump along with many other u. S. Politicians and pundits have criticized the runs treatment of free speech protesters journalists and things like that over the years but i want to ask you too can the us kind of throw can politicians here and whatnot throw these stones at other countries iran in particular when weve used tear gas on protesters you know weve weve weve imprisoned whistleblowers and have marginalized journalists and gone after people like julia sondra many people is a journalist can we can we throw stones at other countries given what weve done absolutely not i mean we have a president who is trying to pull out a whistle blower right now and we also have a president who under his under his regime and i will call it the trump regime was ok with him as not pursued in american journalists who was actually killed and we have a very interesting history of in many cases suppressing journalism particularly journalism that we dont like and we have a president right now who is absolutely ok with. Taking im taking away the credentials of journalists we have a president who is ok with calling our journalists the enemies of the people american journalists who are actually just doing their job as another branch and branch thats very important of the government to showcase to the people what is actually going on behind the veil we have a president who has gone in an all out assault on on journalists in and of themselves hes been bombarded with talking at his rallies about them getting beaten up hes been fine with inciting violence against them and i think that its very rich coming from someone who has been the leader that President Trump happens to be when it comes to his own relationship with journalists right here in this country when we go to your post so. Im going to say i think think theres a huge difference between the u. S. And many of the countries over the or the middle east. As far as whether or not they should you know i think we probably go down a really a slippery slope if we start comparing that to yes there are many instances where the u. S. Has kind of piled around with. Kind people and not just really just across the world so we really do have that history but the u. S. Just as a nation as a sovereign nation you know were not in the business of you know purposely you know attacking protesters you know who go out and i think thats probably some of what the opposition is that or what trumps concern is is how it was done we are that weve seen this happen with black lies matter protesters specifically we brought in tear gas weve seen them bring and weve seen them bring in weaponry weve seen basically an all out sim i army assault on many protesters in our country right on the right to move in like we have a history particularly when it comes time to write our relations you know but i really have a habit of doing absolutely but i think the u. S. Has the u. S. And how theyve gone about how weve gone about doing it is a little different than what we see over in iran or any of these. Democratic well absolutely i think i think for me that really makes the difference if you start comparing the 2 i dont think theres really much comparison between. How the u. S. Deals with free speech and what were talking about with iran so i do think there is a there is a difference there but you know the idea that trump tweeted and i mean it is i mean its well i do feel that we should we know its always important to make sure that if youre going to throw stones and if youre going to criticize other countries you lead to make sure you have clean hands before you do it i want to speaking of interesting hands the wall street journal recently reported that allies of President Trump are pursuing an effort to acquire right wing news channel one American News network and its in a bid to shake up a conservative media thats really been dominated by fox news and only box news now some say this move is being considered because fox news has been going left which is news to me and you know and so i have to ask this is about i read this today is fox news now too progressive for the right for the Republican Party and are we seeing a split potential split in the Republican Party like were seeing in the Democratic Party where you see that split between centrist democrats and progressive democrats is there a rift taking place right now theres a risk in the Republican Party but its definitely not with fox fox is as conservative as right lingering as its always been and probably always will be i mean the viewership speaks for itself and i dont think that fox news you know i think theres probably some washington d. C. Speaker talking about the idea that somehow you know its either people dont want to merican work and so you know thats a thats thats not true at all and its interesting that people are even making the argument that fox news out of all networks is moving left now that they do the you know they push conservative points of views and there are a lot of great discussions there on fox but i dont i would i would be interested in finding out where you read that i like more of the i think it was like new america a little rabbit a few other things were kind of like you know theyve been critical of donald trump fox as so therefore theyre looking for you know well mainly positive to come to an area of donald. Some problems here and theyre saying oh you know this person is on fox news donna brazil is on fox news and so fox named the hiring of don it still is a contributor has ruffled a few feathers but in addition to that i think the elevation of Shepard Smith and especially in certain conversations where he was the one who made a lot of National News and various sources being critical of the president and watching how that how that has shifted some of the conversation bought started off with a monster of being fair and balanced everyone knows that that was out of the window from its insert but i think that theyve gone probably more right since President Trump has been obvious than they even were you know i want to i want you to about this through were talking about ok we know emerson we see plays to the left you know fox plays to the right now were talking about having more channels and all along these kind of very Divisive Party lines theres no news media divided enough at this point like should our news media really be playing to audiences regardless of what political corner. And i think cable news is very different if youre talking about the original big 3 youre c. B. S. Or a. B. C. Or n. B. C. I think that those will always be the most mainstay middle of the road anybody on either side is probably going to have a bit of a conversation piece there if youre talking about cable news its more entertainment value and i think that whether youre c. N. N. M. S. N. B. C. Or fox you know that you have to have certain characters as there are of you know that moneymaking machine that actually helps you so i think that when you do that you automatically know who your audience bases and you cater to that audience and i dont necessarily think thats wrong but i think that as a viewer people have to understand that thats part of the market and thats part of their market has got a job and then rain and ratings matter and then thats what is really driving a lot of the even the the back and forth the negativity that you see in news i mean these things trim so you get on you get on television you Say Something nasty about the president well more than likely thats something thats going to try and or even when barack obama was in office if you get on television and you Say Something about barack obama that type of thing will try and i dont think that well unfortunately i dont see this type of actor moment or whatever getting any better because i think the state of our apollo. Its just one allow it i dont think that people are so pushed to their own side you know youre talking about living in tribes now i think were in the middle of tribalism and i dont expect to change anytime soon these other new sources like the way in which believe in 20 their team has it has the element of were right were going to always stay right were going to be far right they push a lot of conspiracy going if there was a lot of confusion is one thing about being conservative another thing when your net conspiratorial conspiracy a lot of kids and never agree on anybody on the outside as they do so thats thats kind of the spin machine theyve been going to im going to say thank you both for coming on the day and having the conversation with us truly a pleasure as always thank you very. Right. And what can only be described as taking a page out of blade runner researchers and scientists the United States have created what are being called the very 1st living machines yes these tiny less than one millimeter long xeno bots as theyre called are made from assembling the stem cells of african clawed frog embryos incubating them and then cutting them reshaping them into a body forms designed by a supercomputer not only not only can mate heal on their own but these you know bots can also heal themselves researchers believe that these are the very 1st living programmable organisms because they are neither the traditional robot nor a known species of animal yet they have the traits of both scientists believe that in the future will be able to do a host of things from finding radioactive contamination to cleaning the oceans and even the arteries in your body. That does not my friends make them any less creepy all right everybody i got to say that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world were not told the world of that so i tell you all i love you tyrrel been keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and that everybody. Isnt my. Vows of a time about what. Was it was. More about. What when and what in this i dont. See in the following to him but im before. Him but. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young in the streets. What happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it meaning messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to plan this than him and what happens in court be. Shocked shocked as far as we feel. We dont know just for the. End of this trial unfortunately you. 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