Adviser in a new tell all book. A new report on racism and xenophobia in france finds that black people face increasing discrimination. Also on the program the harsh reality of displacement a un report says war in persecution displaced one out of every 100 people around the world. And oddly wellings with the sports news is the main d. X. Corruption trial draws to a close in paris the former head of war after dicks face is 4 years in prison if found guilty of taking bribes to cover up russian doping pleas lawyer says that would be inhumane and cruel. Lets get going beginning in the United States here on the news with the Supreme Court today dealing another setback to the Trump White House this. Time in a case involving young immigrants the court rejected the administrations efforts to end the program shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation its known as dhaka deferred action for childhood arrivals there are around 700000. 00 socalled dreamers who were brought to the u. S
Days after an article from the New York Times alleged russia was paying bounties to the taleban to kill american soldiers theres now a fallout over that over the information from the Intelligence Community as far as what they knew as top lawmakers call for action while President Trump calls the entire story another hoax Rachel Blevins is joining me live in studio to break down all the latest details here so rachel what if we heard from within the Intel Community well the director of the cia released a statement and she actually didnt mention russia or afghanistan but she said that the Intelligence Community is constantly getting reports about possible threats to u. S. Troops on the ground and working to decide if those reports are legitimate now we did see another report which cited an anonymous. Fishel in which he specifically said that while intelligence on this subject was received it only reached a low levels of the community and never moved out because they determined it was uncor
Or punish russians russia or russia for these alleged bribes naturally the us mainstream Corporate News media ate all this up including our good buddy Rachel Maddow who much like alex jones talking about gay illuminati progs went into full fear monger mode what on earth are we supposed to do with there is this dire with its with news that has these worst Case Scenario and locations about the president its so dire its so so dire i mean with all the dire we are facing today this is clearly to Rachel Maddow the most dire. Except that like most of the past 4 years of russia gate trump stories this one heavily relies on once again Intelligence Community sources and evidence we havent seen or are not allowed to see in fact in the aftermath of the New York Times report both the pentagon and the National Security agency have distanced themselves from the story which the pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman saying quote to date the department of defense has no corroborating evidence to balad
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