A wave of city hall Corruption Cases that expose americas pay to play problem here in california Los Angeles City councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act for allegedly selling the city to several Real Estate Developers including the wealthy head of a Chinese Company seeking to build a 77 story skyscraper downtown now in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects which are reportedly received more than one and a half 1000000. 00 in bribes including Campaign Contributions lavish dinners and even stacks of casino chips jesse many people think political corruption like this only happens in nonnative member countries which we refer to as the 3rd world but this right here is an example of perfect and good Old Fashioned homegrown corruption yes it is brigitta and i think there is something we need as the United States people need to understand. We are no longer exceptional in the Un
Course you can go to our dot com get lots more there as well thats hard to international got lots more great programming coming your way. Max kaiser this is the kaiser report they create to create back who is on sect not me but apparently millions are wow whats going on here stacy well you know when we look at our economic headlines and our financial and Banking System headlines what wed like to do is put it within the context of where we sit geo politically culturally domestically all those sort of things so when you look at this story you see that were in a new mindset that were a post 2016 voting generation they carry their ideas they transmit their ideas through means so this is an interesting story here i dont quite understand who these kids are but nevertheless for generations easy and millennial stick talk is our clubhouse and trump threatened it said youre a black and 19 year old tic toc user in california who joined in that app protest if youre going to mess with us we will me
Its a mixed day stocks reacting to the vaccine news josh, it seems funny to ask the question about tech on a day i showed you the index is having a nice bounce back day since that index hit its high on monday, 13th it hasnt traded all that well what do you make of that well, were working on josh browns mike maybe he did that on purpose since its my first day back joe, do you want to take that same question . There we go. I was going to say this is going well so far. What i said was first of all, welcome back technology can you hear me i can hear you. Amazon was down 12. 7 . Amazon was down that its 1999 all over again understand that 1999, once the names like microsoft rolled over, they were in a multi year decline where technology under performed. Thats not the case well be witnessing right now lit be a pause that refreshes. The fundamentals are strong for Technology Technology is the economy and there you go today, youve got amazon recovering 6 of the 12. 7 decline it witnessed last
Today we discussed political corruption in several states across the country and a new partnership between iran and china sit tight the show starts now. The war. I am bridgie to santos for our top story today we look at a wave of city hall Corruption Cases that expose americas pay to play problem here in california Los Angeles City councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act for allegedly selling the city to several Real Estate Developers including the wealthy head of a Chinese Company seeking to build a 77 story skyscraper downtown now in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects. Weezer reportedly received more than one and a half 1000000. 00 in bribes including Campaign Contributions lavish dinners and even stacks of casino chips jesse many people think political corruption like this only happens in nonnative member countries which we refer to as the 3rd world but this right
Happening tonio and this is america as well where your businesses were quick to line up to get their hands on the Small Business loans from the federal government but the data released last week shows that the entire fund just came a free money for corrupt organizations and for the Friends Family and politicians. Will tell you about the businesses the took advantage of the p. P. The funds and also the City Council Members and other officials across the country have been found guilty of accepting bribes to pad their own pockets later in the show the house and Senate Unanimously approved a bill that eliminates the statute of limitations for child Sexual Assault giving survivors or seeking justice dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Many businesses connected to lawmakers to queued sums of money from the p. P. P. Fund set up by congress and so did the Catholic Church and theres plenty of corruption to go around and were going to talk about of get fair and cousins from the trial