tattoo. his wrap sheet goes back to the nixon campaign when the then 19-year-old donated nomoney to x on oes opponent. it didn t get anymore ethical from there. in 1980 stone began a lobbying firm that catered to human rights abusers. stone once boasted they lined upmost of the deck taters in the world that we could find. never the less it is for. political adviser to donald trump. while working for bob. he was forced to resign of a to be laid revealed they placed
a new group has claimed responsibility the country s president is describing the explosion as an act of terrorism. which human rights abusers are facing rising resistance that is the central conclusion of the twenty nine thousand report by human rights watch which was presented here in berlin for the first time today despite so many headlines to the contrary the report finds that when it comes to human rights things may actually be getting better. stories like that of the alleged murder of journalists by the saudi arabian government may make you think that autocrats and human rights violations are increasingly becoming the norm. but human rights watch is actually optimistic despite both the united states and britain withdrawing from their traditional leading role in defending democracy and civil rights the advocacy groups annual report says countries like germany are quote pushing back as the u.s. and the u.k.
business with countries that have egregious human rights records but then why were democrats supportive of the iran deal? jessica: they thought it was our best option to make sure iran didn t end up with nuclear weapons. there are a lot of people who would attest to that, we will see what comes out of it now that it s you know, we have added administration hostile to it. democrats know as well as republicans that you have to do business with people that you don t want to. and who are human rights abusers and all that. the obama administration, in good faith, thought that iran going into the steel was good to make us all safer. i love to see bipartisanship, especially with people like michael he and bernie sanders. those are the polar opposites of the spectrum, and it s a wonderful thing. we also glossed over this yemen has been going on for years, and we woke up to it because of the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. it was a terrible thing, we should have been more concerned th
love saudi arabia is going to buy things from the united states and give, you know, thousands of jobs to american citizens and they are our friends all the while barack obama gave billions of dollars to iran. rachel: and they re not our friends. sean: that s right. lead sponsor of terrorism. let s call balls and strikes on this and be fair. important remain an ally but also call out their human rights abuses. rachel: julie i care a lot about human rights. i was disgusted by what happened in that embassy in istanbul. we have relations with china. they are enormous human rights abusers. so how do we make these distinctions and who do we go after for human rights and who do we turn a blind eye to? julie: i think we shouldn t be turning a blind tie any human rights violations and i think quite frankly there is plenty of evidence out there not only points the crown prince and his people and those who work under him in a security team to be responsible for this heinous murder, but i
a relationship with saudi arabia for a long time and they are one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. so this is obviously a horrific thing that happened but there s a lot of horrific things that happen on a regular basis in saudi arabia and we re not even getting into the war in yemen. so we have tolerated a lot of bad behavior from our allies, not just saudi arabia, other places. china comes to mind. and because of economic relationships and with saudi arabia because of the relationship that we have with them in the middle east which is actually pretty critical because of where they re located. so i think it s hard for people i should say it should be hard for people. it s not. there are people who are acting like all of the sudden they ve just discovered that saudi arabia has a horrible human rights position. yeah. i ve got to ask about this, though. i ve got to ask about these 11 democratic senators sending a letter to the president demanding that he disclose