Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle senator Chuck Schumer famously said shortly after trump was elected you take on the Intelligence Community they have 6 ways from sunday at getting back at you in light of the failed russia gate hoax and this nonsense with ukraine this characterization appears to be spot on should we all fear the deep state. Talking the deep state im joined by my guest Daniel Mcadams including hes the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity in washington we crossed to Richard Goodstein he is a democratic strategist and a former Campaign Adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton and in new you. We cross to john burnett he is managing director and founder of one empire group a business and political Consultancy Company all right Jonathan Cross liberals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel make out of that we go to you include you inspired this program with an
A great interview but this sentence stuck out the u. S. Has ceased being a republic and has become a National Security state elaborate on what you mean go ahead. Well the National Security state you know really essentially formed with a 947 National Security act which created the cia the n. S. A. And really created a secret underground government that is not really is not really subject to democracy and i saw a lot of this when i was on capitol hill and in fact the term deep state was coined by a good friend of mine on capitol hill michael often but on capitol hill you had Permanent Committee staff 6 members who are not subject to democratic elections they wrote the legislation they worked together regardless of party they were beholden to special interests i remember sitting there and having a bill dealing with the middle east and one of the permanent staff or says dont worry about it this is a pact proved it happened all the time they were they were they were subject to special inter
Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer
Interfere with u. S. Elections i tend to accept that as fact not Adult Fiction about it implicit in which richard youre not really but youre not really answering my question here ok i mean if you look at the investigations that have been done with these scandals here there are people facing indictments people were fired for lying people were on our investigation for. A number of things that that should have been part of their their mandate i mean theyre supposed to. Execute policy and not create it and we theres an ample amount of evidence that these people did this let me go i know youre frustrated here but lets get everybody in 1st john you want to react to that and then well make it a free for all go ahead john. I was never thought i would say this but i actually agree with richard in the sense that i think that we were stablished on law and order were missing the order part with respect to some of our Law Enforcement agencies some of them lean right some of them lean left however w
Place would stop. Its the closest that we came to royalty. Watch your back. Photographers at their door everywhere she went. That really tore her down. He was definitely under a lot of pressure as a kennedy. Flying for him was just freedom. I think it was the only place he could escape. All these rumors, john was having troubles with his marriage, he was having troubles with his magazine, the two most important things in his life. This is the oddest sky ive ever seen. If theres a private pilot, theyre going to be in a lot of trouble. Were interrupting your program for some information involving john f. Kennedy jr. I remember turning on the tv and the helicopter was over the water. Ready . Okay. Theres a large contingent of people staked out. A friend of mine said, have you heard . No, this cant be happening. To understand john f. Kennedy jr. And what he meant to the country you have to go back to where it all started. The unexpected climax saw senator kennedy the victor with a clear ma