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Tipping point for a historic vote all right its time to shoot some good news i knew. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what is russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 4. 00 to 95. 00 bombers on the mission and then shows the u. S. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadowed their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close it was fighter jets to get to the bomber now heres what a Russian Air Force commander had to say about it. Crews of strategic in this are carrying bombers performed flawlessly today 35 and my g 31 fighters provided support in the most complicated stages of the road. Post exercise permanent control of the mission along the entire row now we saw a similar incident play out last week where russia said that they were on a scheduled flight yet the u. S. Decided to intercept claiming that they were simply too close for comfort ok so we heard what the russians had to say what about the u. S. How they responded right will the u. S. Is saying that they stand by their claim that they wanted to intercept those bombers because of their proximity to alaskas coast now a statement was released on twitter by the north American Aerospace Defense Command or norad in which they posted photos of the aircraft and claimed it successfully completed to intercept a russian bomber aircraft formations and during the alaskan air Defense Identification Zone they went on to say quote the Russian Military aircraft came within 32 nautical miles of alaskan shores however remained in International Airspace and at no time did they enter the United States sovereign airspace so basically theyre saying it was too close but not so close that they wanted to turn a doubly action ok so weve heard about the planes now where does that leave Us Russian Relations lately well former National Security advisor john bolton recently made headlines 1st saying that russian president putin views President Trump as someone he can play like a fiddle and someone he doesnt take seriously but thats actually the opposite of what we have seen you know we saw. The i. N. F. Treaty last year and hes really dragged his feet on wanting to renew the new start treaty even though russia said it was willing to do so with no preconditions before it expires and february but instead trump has said he wants china to be included in a brand new treaty and hes really putting the last remaining Nuclear Treaty between the United States and russia at danger by waiting for that and then at the same time we also. Seen increased tensions in syria where moscow has called out the United States for keeping troops in a country where they are not invited and they have also called them out for wanting to still syrias Natural Resources now determine ministration Just Announced a new round of sanctions against top syrian officials so there are a lot of questions about if the u. S. Is going to try to ramp up its interference in syria and if that would then put them in direct conflict with russia yet definitely not matching up with john boltons statement so we will see how that plays out Rachel Blevins thank you so much. After 4 years of campaigning to get a spot on the u. N. Security councils table canada was denied a front row seat now this is the 2nd time in 10 years canada has failed to make the cut and needless to say the countrys liberal government is pretty disappointed arties alex lyall bitch has the story from toronto. Its not a secret winning the United Nations Security Council seat was a top is right on the canadian Prime Minister and Foreign Policy for her to do list its a way for canada to continue to be influential and have an impact in multilateralism and around the world but things didnt turn out the way just a trudeau had planned. On the good of number. India. Island. Number. One canada was in direct competition with norway and ireland in the race for 2 temporary western bloc seats on the Security Council after just one round of voting canada was out the final tally norway was 1st with 130 votes and ireland guarded 128 ballots in its favor canada lost with 108. Canadas Ruling Liberal Party was keen to play a role in the Security Council which elects 10 nonpermanent members for to your stance that the winners get to share a table with permanent members which includes the u. K. China france who did russia and the United States the council itself determines how the u. N. Response to military conflicts and it has powers which include authorizing peacekeeping operations and imposing International Sanctions cant just for your Campaign Cost taxpayers at least 2000000. 00 and employing 13 full time staff and even invited diplomats to a celine dion concert in new york at home critics say their reasons for the loss include the trudeau governments failure with International Aid and peacekeeping commitments while not condemning human rights abuses when compared to the other 2 when are seeing now ireland and norway accept it its clear that of their factors may have come into play as well norway announced this year that it was increasing its core funding to 6 u. N. Organizations to approximately 350000000. 00 u. S. Dollars and ireland is a neutral state touted for its outspoken Foreign Policy both norway and ireland were also ahead of the game with their Security Council bids coming in years ahead of canadas. His allies are trying to spin the loss of Foreign Policy with that help with Relationship Building in reducing canada stature for now canada has to take a backseat. That said even though he is most certainly disappointed the canadian Prime Minister has pledged that canada will continue its efforts in the international arena. When countries come together to work collaboratively and respectfully on solving big problems we do well when Vulnerable People around the world have better opportunities to succeed and fewer conflicts and and if you are a social inequities these are the things that canada has been doing for the past 5 years these are the things that we will continue to do into the future for our t. V. In toronto im alex mileage. And back here in the Nations Capital House Democrats have slated a vote next week to make the district of columbia the 51st state now its an issue they say has become far more important in the aftermath of protests for Racial Justice in both washington and across the country are to his fair project is joining us from the newsroom and fair and this could be a pretty historic vote next week yes so mentally in order for a bill to become a law it has to go through 8 steps and hopefully doesnt get vetoed by the president at the finish line right now the fight for d. C. Statehood is in step 6 which is extremely monumental because d. C. Couldnt even get past up to in 26 years listen here. For more than 2 centuries the residents of washington d. C. The district of columbia have been denied their right to fully participate in their democracy instead they have been dealt the injustice of paying taxes proudly serving in uniform in great numbers and contributing to the economic power of our nation. Now the vote is slated for next friday the 26th and there is more than enough congressmen in the democratically controlled house that are officially back in the bill for it to pass however there is an insurmountable opposition in the g. O. P. Controlled senate thats also backed by President Donald Trump telling the New York Post last month quote d. C. Will never be a state you mean district of columbia state why so we can have 2 more Democratic Senators and 5 more congressman no thank you that will never happen monella welfare and back in 1903 then Democratic Controlled Congress shot down a d. C. Statehood bill so why would they flip on it now so manila it was 2 reasons actually that ignited the democrats to bring about this bill the biggest one being that infamous picture of President Donald Trump in front of St Johns Church just 2 weeks ago now it was the much criticize administrations move to use federal forces to clear Lafayette Park directly across from the white house of protesters with gas canisters for President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet to take a photo op in front of the church now the House Majority leader hoyer says it was a perfect time to introduce the bill and schedule the vote with the merial bows are on board they are very definitely should be soldiers stationed around our city waiting for the go to attack americans in a local policing matter so they knew now that our cause for statehood is certainly about making sure we have 2 voting senators to speak up for us and making sure that our congresswoman has a vote in making sure that we have seats at the table when the governors and state legislatures are talking. Now says it was also the recent covert 19 pandemic that shine light on the plight of washington d. C. So when Congress Passed the cares act stimulus package back in march d. C. Was actually classified as a territory rather than a state well because of that it cost d. C. More than 700000000. 00 in federal corona virus relief funding the bows are also pointed out that d. C. Taxpayers get no voting representatives in Congress Despite contributing more in federal taxes on a per person basis than many states and democrats are doing their best to convince their republican counterparts to go along with the vote but again its the senate that this vote could get shut down and now however another big point made by the democrats is with just over 700000 residents d. C. Actually has a Larger Population than the states of vermont and wyoming reporting in the newsroom fair and fronsac. Right now to the latest code 900 numbers worldwide cases topping 8300000 with 449000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most confirmed cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed by brazil and then russia taking a closer look at this countrys numbers now at 2100000 cases with 117000 reported deaths. And the World Health Organization says there was a glimmer of hope as a medical trial in the u. K. Showed an inexpensive steroids drug called dexamethasone was able to reduce the number of deaths however w. H. O. Officials caution that the drug must only be used under close medical supervision and only for severely sick patients that steroid is not a treatment for the virus itself. And over in peru where Health Care Workers are protesting for more personal protective equipment as the country emerges now as one of the worlds worst thinking hot hot spots because of the lack of people more than 1000 doctors and nurses are now infected and more than 60 have died the medical and nursing you. Ins are also asking the government for a bonus as they continue to put their lives at risk. And back here stateside a small city and Washington State is dusting off an old program in order to keep their local economy afloat city officials intend you know are once again printing what in money they recently resurrected their 1. 00 and Money Program to help its 800. 00 residents get through the economic fallout because of the pandemic each resident who meets the low income threshold is given 301 dollars each month to spend within the town the last time the city used whatever money was during the great depression. And as protesters across the nation demand changes to Police Tactics today our panel of guests who both have backgrounds in Law Enforcement will join me to weigh in on policing in america and to keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed make sure you download our brand new free app called portable t. V. You can catch their 24 sevenths catch is back here in just 2 minutes. You were thank you finally. Your tired networks were. d in today. They are. No matter what. You know me d im famous for my views. Yours truly. How to read out of read turn on the t. V. On the about the world and whats happened in the around me i see shows on the screens in last every day because of fake news narratives the steady state theory to maybe cool some luck build enough business with tom f. The plumber brick by brick globalism make it my own house plenty of that in this war but i found a network that will question. 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Is doing away with plain clothes officer units but protesters say none of that is enough so what will be so we will continue that conversation with 2 former Police Officers to get their thoughts from the other side of the batch of dominic is oh hes a former former Police Officer in illinois and author of the book before the badge everything you need to know before becoming a cop and garlin next and hes a former Police Official in the Baltimore Area and adjunct criminal justice instructor garland also sits on the National Board of directors for the a. C. L. U. Gentlemen thank you for joining us today adamic i want to go over to you 1st there are a lot of things that need to be done in the way of Police Reform off the top of your head what do you view as the most important. I think we need to look at the way that the laws are what laws police are and forcing are viewed one of the biggest things with the now narrative of defunding these its not going to solve the problem i talked just a couple days ago about a breakdown of looking at all the ability of the police have which is what the public wants to do away with they want to do away with a certain type of use of force there which generates from why the cops are there in the 1st place in other words was it a proactive or reactive interaction with the public and when you break everything down the force thats used with Law Enforcement on a citizen which is missing with the public is complaining about as is might why are they enforcing laws in the 1st place what are we looking at and specifically what i look at is war on drugs and the 2nd amendment firearms if we look at and we structure why police are dealing with people who are usually interacting with drugs and guns youre going to take away 95 percent of the issues that stem from proactive policing so the 1st thing we have to look at is not the street cop we have to look at the laws that theyre enforcing we straight away from the constitution want force and become massively Revenue Generation and we have to look at what command and village officials are having are cops doing its not a problem for the police its what the officials are asking them to do thats a different perspective than i have heard same question to you. Well to me this is an easy one and one of the issues is this and do does the public have confidence that the investigations into Law Enforcement violence alone for some and use of force is unbiased i think the 1st thing that needs to be done is that Law Enforcement needs to be relieved of the inthe already to investigate themselves how many of us you know i mean heres an example would be if someone was accused of robbing a bank would you trust the National Bank robbers association to do an unbiased the situation certainly not its pretty absurd the cia do you trust them to investigate themselves or do an unbiased investigation know but somehow people think that a Police Department go. Investigate themselves from a person who was the commander of the Investigations Division which included internal affairs im going to have some guy investigate someone else or girl who in their Bowling League i think not it needs to be taken out of all the states municipalities need an independent Investigative Unit which can not have retired Police Officers on it it should probably be attorneys that will give the public the confidence that Police Departments arent covering over their own investigations and that is a good point that was definitely something that was brought up about 5 years ago with the death of freddie gray and baltimore what about before you get the bad stomach you wrote a book about this what about the Police Academy what do they teach you there and should some of this Crucial Community policing be taught to take young recruits down ik. Well a Community Policing is a redundant term youre looking at one of the biggest issues i have is the standard of men and women who are hired today im 45 years old i dont want to 21 year old male showing up to my home if he hears the neighbors complain about a noise complaint at my home if im if im with my spouse or significant other what does let Life Experience as a person help you know the problem and if we look specifically at like chicago Police Department im singling them out if you have you know the conflict between a community of color and the candidates that are there a majority of the time youll have somebody whos of occasion on the north side of chicago lets say whos spent in the academy that person then bends there or there are 3 months in the academy or 3 months on efforts you know with this preconceived notion about the area hes going to be sent in due to the other exposure from the other a seasoned officers there we know has social media which is tainting the view of the communities of color left and right showing them to be a community which is out of control you have a very impressionable lack of Life Experience candidate now going to police these neighborhoods with a bias so we have. Looking at the quality of person were bringing in we need to bring in more salespeople we need to get more retail people people who have verbal skills to be honest one of the worst things that Law Enforcement ever did was require a College Degree you cannot teach on humanitarian issues by sending somebody to college and i can them to come back to the community and garland what do you think about what they teach. Well i think that thats not the issue i think that we miss the boat when we talk about teaching when we look at some of the agree just things that weve been seeing online some of the viral videos you know an old man being pushed down people being mercilessly beaten right in front of a camera we have to finally accept that there is a problem within the culture of Police Department you train people the rules you train people the laws but they go out into the field and they learn the culture and we have to you know it is is the the United States and states a nation of laws are a nation of people with a nation of people and so what we have is people that dont use the training that they have and they dont apply it correctly because there is a bad culture thats what we have to start looking into and oftentimes that starts from the top we need to put Police Officials into department Police Departments that will hold their officers accountable that will address this from a culture perspective and recognize you cant train away a person whos just going to walk up and bop an old man in here with a stick or knock him to the ground thats not training thats culture people who accept it as an ok thing to do within the context of of their job sticking with you protesters i mean they talk about this institutionalized racism how do you define that and how do you fix that. I think what we have to accept is that the 1st thing is that its not just institutionalized racism within the Police Department that this is a reflection of our current country you know some years ago i bought a new car i went into the local coffee shop and walked out and someone told me yes somebody said dad you were probably a drug dealer and they said you know i know that guy hes a cop so if Police Officer. Thinks that im a drug be able because im i have a new car its its because thats what america sees and we have to accept that what were looking at is a reflection of american views of minorities and its not just that Police Departments though come into america they come out of. Were not just looking at minorities or well look at everybody across the board you know we look at the culture culture is going to breed new cars and a specific type of car thats your towards drug dealers we are going to look at you know if you have 4 black eyes in a white neighborhood youre going to get a perception from copies of his Training Experience and the exact same things from a white guys in a black neighborhood based on that 20 years and the area thats around you know before you would mention that you want to remove a command staff policing their own but then you want to talk about putting commands to ethnic accountability or training the double edged sword in the eggshells the cops are have on as their training is in the us and i think everybody can agree on a number one they need more funding but if youre going to sit there and have the training is given to keep the peace and maintain order in a free society the onus i do agree needs to be on the police that you need to step up their game when it comes to Community Relations but were talking about an older man who comes up and its opt on the head by Law Enforcement we have to acknowledge that the media is not giving the Law Enforcement a fair shake by explaining the totality of the circumstance which led to that old man pushed well if youre if youre going to sit there put the onus on the police i have no problem with that i agree with you i do think more citizens need to get involved with with. Panel checks and kind of understand how they do it but we also have to hold the community accountable because this is a relationship between the police and the public now expect the police just to have the well this is where i will last but guys i mean do either of you actually believe that you know any sort of racism can be solved by legislation or training i mean if not what do we do dominick. You know you cant youre never going to be able to breed out any type of bias crime is cultural and i dont care who says what youre going to get a certain hispanic crime certain black crime certain white crimes and any seasoned officer who is not restricted by their Department Policy will tell you as such so youre going to get a bias formed by an officer who has been working in the same neighborhood for 10 years plus 5 years plus youre never going to be able to wind up legislating that out because simply the fact the culture is indicative of the crimes are committed with it so unless youre willing to attack the culture 1st know thats thats the common denominator when you think. Youre not going to solve it i think thats a pretty high bar what you want to do is mitigate it you want officers to know that in the number one you want them to understand the constitution i had an officer come to me one day and see you know i saw a black guy walking down the street with 2 white kids and not to me and and i thought there was Something Weird about that so i went over and pulled them over with the bottom line is that absolutely unconstitutional so officers need to understand what is and isnt constitutional and they need to be you know that countable. I think some at some point their officers it are now well and are told whats constitutional when it comes to race and then of course as i said theyre not all that accountable afterwards and real quickly gentlemen ive heard from my own contacts at police chris apart across this country that you know racism is within the force itself can you speak to that from your personal experience as dominic. No ive never seen racism exposed and 1st any Police Officer out there a seen bias i have my own biases im very public about it but i said it for years. And i would even though that i had my bias i was still able to get here to my oath and in the constitution it doesnt matter what my personal views are as long as im absolutely serving with 100 percent integrity which i battle to do so youre never going to breed out biases is just how it is but if you dont wind up attacking both sides Law Enforcement and the communities this problem will continue darling real quick last words yes really i became involved with the a. C. L. U. Is suing the department that i work for for reasons im of the a. C. L. U. Of maryland said it was the most egregious case of discrimination i personally was passed over i was number one on the sort of exam and i was passed over 10 times in a row for a white officer so yes exist however additionally it was we brought in a new police chief there was a lot of things done to change it and our department made dramatic changes so yeah its a problem but yes i do believe it can be addressed in the right individual well lets leave it right there dominick is out garland next and gentlemen thank you so much for weighing in. You are right that does it for me im a legend will be back at 5 oclock were going to talk about the u. N. And colombias cocaine production all that and more coming up at 5 oclock well see you back here and then. If the epidemic continues as a disease the economies will not work we will not have trade tourism. The investments we will have continuing very deep economic crisis. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly on the population of belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to put these attacks was a p. R. You see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the collusion was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named into than a gang i think it went to the very very top i think it the process the water where all the patients you thought was going on and give the go ahead. Greetings and salyut ation is all right as we now enter the Halfway Point of june which in turn is the Halfway Point of 2021 thing we have discovered is that here in the United States of america despite the many times our government and Corporate Culture has attempted to suppress or coopt it the freedom of speech is still alive and well it has been flowing through the veins of 2020 like painkillers through congress or sudafed through our president freedom of speech and expression have brought us both the just like the political protest against oppression and Police Violence that followed the murder of george boyd to the incredibly stupid and dangerous like the protests we saw over pokes having to wear masks and being asked to stay at home following the outbreak of covert 19 whatever one feels about the call