Car yes Time Magazine is reporting that tucked neatly into the Senate Republicans latest 1. 00 trillion dollar covert 19 response package is a nice 8000000000. 00 into pentagon Weapons Systems built by depends contractors like boeing Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics and what kind of virus and disease fighting weapons will this 8000000000. 00 buy us taxpaying citizens well Time Magazine goes on report that the bill would deposit 2200000000. 00 in pentagon ship building accounts it would boost Missile Defense systems in california and alaska and deliver about 1400000000. 00 for the c 130 transport planes and f. 35 fighters manufactured by the good folks at Lockheed Martin. And as journalists and activists around the us begin to uncover this latest 1000000000. 00 defense contractor gift basket they are being labeled as adversaries by the pentagon politico is now reporting that a new mandatory pentagon Training Course aimed at preventing leaks refers to protestors and journalists as adversaries in a fictional scenario designed to teach Defense Department personnel how to better protect Sensitive Information adversary is the term they use yes those working on the front lines of the 1st amendment to our constitution protesters and journalists are now considered adversaries and pentagon Training Camps but are we really all that shocked i mean after all we are living in a country where roughly a month ago the United States secretary of defense mark as recently as governors to dominate the battle space battle space when describing efforts to contain and disband black lives matter protests. Which is why today well be knee deep in the battle space of the 1st amendment as we take on the military Industrial Complex and their benefactors and start watching the whole. Whats going on a city street you want to. See rises joyce state. Great city displays systemic deceptions the late show which. Brings up the old. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks. And joining us today to discuss the latest domestic military Industrial Complex news is the former Senior Security policy analyst from the office of the sector depends the one and only Michael Malone michael we havent had john in forever thank you for coming on today. My pleasure thanks for having me so michael bottom line is there any real World Military justification for putting billions into the f. 35 an arm spending into a covert 19 recovery bill. Oh absolutely not in fact im shocked that. Even the Senate Republicans would even buy into that simply because. They made a very strong point that they want to strictly for stimulus to put people back to work theres no place for this kind of stimulus package for the military at this point in the stimulus package there the the Congress Passed a 740000000000. 00. Defense budget already and they and they can always add supplements later but keep it divorced from this this just medis the priorities and it really shows that the trump administrations priorities including the Defense Department is very very skewed. And were seeing a lot of our Congress People actually shout out what they think is wasteful spending from the pentagon right now and not presley just hash tag yesterday defund the pentagon domestically what could the pentagon be doing in order to actually help u. S. Citizens and others during this pandemic. Well they can lie low and not put these kinds of things into stimulus packages or for covert number one but number 2 the rhetoric that you pointed out was very very ill advised and very unfortunate as you pointed out we have a 1st amendment and even though theres a opsec op. Policy that has just. Its. They they are looking at the press and in that particular scenario as adversaries and its wrong you know the press is the only profession that is mentioned in the constitution the United States the only one and yet the pentagon is calling a member sorry i think espers asleep asleep at the switch be should be looking this stuff over and he made one error on that the battlefield where where protesters were even called them targets so his his his rhetoric is just inflammatory at best and people need to calm down the military as you point out needs to be helpful they are they have a they have a rental. In terms of trying to assist people at a very critical time maybe delivery for example i vaccines when when that becomes available thats going to be a legitimate outreach for them but in terms of dealing with Peaceful Protesters no thats thats the thats the job of the local governments and the State Governments now the president could invoke the 1807. 00 insurrection act but hes been counseled that thats just overkill and its totally on the search and it is whats happening today is totally unlike what happened in 1968 i was around in 1968 and everything was out of control at that time not not like today you know i want to ask you getting back to what you mentioned about the media in the. Spawns to questions about the use of the term adversaries in reference to journalists and protesters in this training drill pentagon Spokesperson Lieutenant colonel your royal or will and told the media quote attempting to read more into the use of the term obvious scapes the clear purpose of the training to prevent information from falling into unauthorized hands regardless of its potential use you know michael well i think you kind of mentioned this earlier but should the pentagon whether for training purposes or any other kind of purposes be using terms like adversaries when describing journalists and protesters you know at the very least journalism protestors working on their own shores or even you know journalism protesters in general around the world is adversaries a term that we we you know i think theyre kind of saying like well dont its just a term dont play into it dont read into it but what should we. Well its a its a very unfortunate use of the term adversary and as i recall that. Doctrine was meant to be that policy was meant to provide a scenario and calling the press the adversaries it was was it was dead wrong and what i think they were getting at was trying to guard classified information to ensure that its not leaked out to the press and thats that and they got carried away with their rhetoric and the leaking that has occurred. And thats what this the drift of this doctrine was about was to try and prevent leaks but the leak of this document itself was leaked and it was and it was something that was done from the inside and if it was classified then the press has every right and every legitimate right to reproach to report on it and its just its the same issue where the russians were recently accused based upon very raw uncorroborated intelligence of putting bounties on american soldiers in afghanistan and yet even the president had to repudiate that that information and and so did a lot of in the pentagon now the pentagon has got to watch its. Terminology it has to respect the 1st amendment it shouldnt be calling. Peaceful protesters adversaries because they are exercising their constitutional right its only when we have violence and what have you but then the states have a responsibility to take over and i think that. Esper needs to be more mindful of and be and have a little more oversight of what goes out of of the pentagon im just astounded that he hasnt got better control over his own. Department. M. Ichael switching gears just a little bit congresswoman alexandria kasi a court is currently pushing to bar funding for military treatment in u. S. Public schools and on digital streaming platforms like twitch what are your thoughts on reforming the u. S. Militarys recruitment practices. Well they have a legitimate right to go in and recruit on universities for example i mean i was in there o. T. C. When i was at the university and it was fine i think that. At least theyre not bringing back the draft. And i think maybe that might be something with the but. I would say that humorously but at any rate. Shes got her own agenda and she wants the military out of everything she wants and she has she has she wants nothing to do with the military and and if and i have a i have a grandson who just got out of high school and he saw that the military actually provides an opportunity for him and he qualified in every field including Nuclear Engineering and thats where theyre going to put him hes going to have a career in it and hes calm hes capable of it and given the training so i think in some sense it gives people a legitimate. A gateway to better jobs and opportunities to to better themselves and i think that she changes once too i dont personally agree with her on this and i think that the military has a right so the cia goes. And other agencies go out and recruit universities and even in high schools i remember when i was in high school at the State Government come around and give us a pitch so its very legitimate. And as long as its. You know its done to offer them opportunities people opportunities. Why not you got to remember because you know cortez has also told apple to go fly a kite and and they want 25000 jobs up in her district so her her ability to call the right shots is questionable at best. Why you know i think youre lucky i never of the state Department Come to my high school and ask me if i want to join the state department or anything like that so you know i member of the group. I guess so yeah i mean i think you make a good point at the same time i do think that there needs to be some rains put on of at what age the military or the cia or anyone can start kind of going after these kids because they should be of an age that they can make that decision without being unduly influenced whether its through a video game or other such things like that michael i had to i would agree he i think i think in Senior High School is an its is about the right time because kids should be thinking what career path they want to venture into exactly right michael i want to say thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on sir. Thanks for having me and as we go to break my friends remember that you can also star watching the hawks on demand to the brand new portable t. V. App which is available on all platforms remember portable t. V. You can see all these shows and a whole lot more all right next we delve into the workplace horror show that was allegedly the ellen show and then Rachel Blevins r t america correspondent joins us to discuss the latest news on murder and Sexual Misconduct coming out of fort hood if you do not want to miss that conversation stay tuned all through the hole. We go to work so you stay home. And staff and something before the guard. When you see trevor this may want to get thanks in they didnt could say. If you want to overcome that there go straight trans travel restriction 6 on the move this 3 chance then we have to have a go go back see. How can you explain love ive been to 82 countries i did in 12 but i came here and on those 3 days i just filled with hope. And he kept pretty isnt a sick joke. I made my decision ready. I felt. Pretty. Good. My one dream is that all my children busy. Love cold weather. Like everything about it. For me too to allegations of racism sexism and intimidation the lights of hollywood are filled with stories of many of these stories never even get the coverage they deserve despite hollywood being considered a liberal bastion and that brings us to the Ellen Degeneres show the popular daytime Television Show has become the subject of an internal investigation by warner media after numerous accounts of workplace problems emerged the issue that circling the Ellen Degeneres show our new employees have been speaking out for over a decade but just last month and their voices finally gotten heard executives from show producer telepictures and distributor Warner Brothers television sent a memo to stoppers that interviews with current and former staffers about their experiences on the set are under way. In april variety released a scathing article where crew members shouted out their disdain for being fired at the height of the coronavirus pandemic only to be replaced by nonunion workers and cheaper labor in july a report of racism and intimidation made the front page of buzz feed news in it 10 former ellen employees that they were fired after taking medical leave or bereavement to attend family funerals one employee walked off the job after growing weary from consistent inappropriate comments on race all employees featured describe the environment on ellen set as toxic 10 hour plus work days are the norm but with a rotating group of contractors production crews and other staffers the montreux remains this is as good as it gets this is ellen youll never find anything better and considering the competitive dog eat dog nature of hollywood people often take the bait and feel the physically and mentally can no longer handle the abuse former employees want to see ellen held accountable for her positive public brand that just doesnt jive with the behind the scenes experiences of her staffers. But willing to cancel the burdock to still out on that shes a media giant a 32nd National Spot during her show cost a whopping 51570. 00 the show raked in over 35000000 for Warner Brothers each year and more than 50000000. 00 for host Ellen Degeneres movie who are monstrous numbers i dont know if 51000. 00 for one i have you know ive worked in hollywood for a long time before i came into this into this business of doing this show in the News Business and you know prior to the me too movement a lot of the rumors and everything that you say people are abused people not just sexual and sexist and bigoted but you know theyre also physically abuse theyre also you know worked 18 hour days that you know its a its a brutal industry to work yeah and it seems like the reports were there people were speaking out and they were either getting whacked with it so they just lost their job completely blocked from working on other threats or they were ignored completely and giving harsher hours because what ends up happening is and you probably know this well its really easy to find somebody else to sign up a production staff for a major show and yes it is yes i mean the thing in hollywood is always the case of hey theres another bus load theres another training young you know young kids 1821 years old who are ready to sign up and thats both for like people on the camera and off the camera you feel that constant pressure that hey theyll just get someone younger to replace you or theyll just get someone who will put up with the abuse to replace you theres a great great film called swimming with sharks that stars kevin spacey that really documents the abuse that a lot of people both in the office and outside the office in hollywood face which as you pointed out is weird one of the city but thats like a bastion for limit you wouldnt think that working conditions like that would exist in a because a lot of the people who are involved in these things are the same people who will speak out about working conditions outside of hollywood there are people who will lead the campaign. And shout wave signs hashtag tweet mean while ignoring it on their own front door. At the end of the day to lets not forget that you know no one goes to Football Games with war criminals like our former president george w. Bush you know come on now weve talked about on this show whatever happened its like optics clearly you know with all the with all these reports coming out we want to wait and see what happens in the best occasions for is just to get the full depth of what what actually went on on the show but the biggest question is what happens Going Forward what their arguments that its going to be really hard to cancel Ellen Burstyn foremost because the advertisers havent backed up we have seen it year after year these conversations happen and now theyre just now getting a lot of attention but not a single advertiser has backed out of the ellen show and we talked about the whopping cost of having an ad buy during that show its actually the largest ad by cost of any daytime t. V. Period while so theres a lot of money associated with this and her high profile guests havent start stop showing up to the show either so its hard to tell whats going to happen it truly is i think you brought up some great points there but i think that youre going to see i think once this investigation really reaches its zenith and you hear a lot more people you know speaking out you really hear whats going on because theres a certain point like we dont know if ellen was directly responsible for it but the end of the day its her name on the show her pictures on the show whatever happens behind the scenes still ultimately is going to fall on her whether she actively took part in it or you know claim i didnt know it was happening you know which is always kind of the one thing you know if you i didnt know they were being mean to the staff or crew will be ok even to Pay Attention when youre walking to set. And thats the one thing that a lot of these former staffers are arguing that you know the environment is so toxic that anybody who is there can obviously see this happening its not happening in a si