Washingtons partisan battle. Joining us now is bloombergs chief content officer marty schenker. Many people thought this was an inspired choice. It ticks so many boxes. Just your sense of what this means for how washington is now going to operate. Martin i wouldnt describe it as necessarily inspired. It is an inspiring lee safe inspiringly safe choice because she is so wellknown on both sides of the aisle. I think she will have a relatively easy time getting confirmed. She is a traditionalist in many ways. She has been at the fed. Shes been at the white house. Shes a great believer in consensus. I think that is what you are going to need with the incoming treasury secretary. Alix nonetheless, it is the first woman treasury secretary, the first woman to lead the fed. This is definitely in that respect a boulder choice. However, how do the progressives feel about her . Marty i think they are very supportive. There is reporting out there that Elizabeth Warren was the person who recommende
Forces, or if the taliban is cooperating with isis or ok, there is no evidence that started on is doing any of that. But nonetheless, the military is ignoring the president and the same thing is happening in syria where we learned the other day from jim jeffrey, who was the trumpet ministration point man on syria. That basically has been lying to the president. He has been misleading the president as to the actual troop numbers in syria. And although were going to get about 200 forces there, i dont doubt that if you know its at least 900 maybe even more. And what is so shocking about all of this is that he was very proud of having misled the president and the media were clapping and cheering. Oh, this is wonderful. That theres the deep state who all the National Security state is simply misleading. The elected commander in chief, so it is very troubling, as you know, given in just there are, you know, and when george just said there me and theres no consequences for obstruct the your,
Possibly also from syria. And its, i find it quite odd that we keep hearing from the liberal media that trump may resort to a coup to stay in power. Well, looks to me that the pentagon, the National Security state, is committing a coup against trump in the last months of his residency by not obeying direct orders from the commander in chief, this is serious business. Go ahead, george. It is straight. Is serious because he is the commander in chief and he has a right to duty to implement his policy. And what were getting is that the pentagon is explicitly just ignoring the instructions from the commander in chief. So we get in afghanistan, in which the United States has actually signed an agreement with it, committing itself to withdrawing by early next year. And the pentagon decide whether or not that im not going to implement this policy. Theyre going to condition it on what the military regards as the situation on the ground. Even though theres nothing in the agreement with the talib
Their own safe spaces if you will. Although i think thats not really fair because conservatives actually prefer to engage with the left. They prefer to have these conversations. They want to be a part of the national dialogue. Its a left that doesnt want them to be heard. It doesnt want them to influence people doesnt want their crimes being out there in the public, you know, back to the children and whatnot. So they may exclude them from mit, the mainstream narrative to be stream of conversation, which is of course, controlled by multinational multibillion Dollar Tech Companies who are somehow able to get away with it. So i think theres a difference. And in this age based culture, were going to write a lot of course, the whole idea of safe spaces is something that started on the college campuses. And its still something that sort of, you know, we talk about these kind of hyper sensitive, authoritarian lefties. You know, were really talking about maybe 50 percent of the population nax
A situation like this. It is very hard because we do not have any other choice. And a surprising twist to the American Election results, donald trump gained more minority votes than 4 years ago, while joe biden seems to have won back more white males. We discuss the issue with our guests. Identity politics, really. Donald trump is great, but show me that you are not great. Well, weve got to move forward into the future in it when we see each other, beyond the color of anybody. Skin plus israel is in talks with russia over the purchase of the sputnik, the corona virus vaccine. We spoke to the c. E. O. Of israels top hospital, which has ordered over a 1000000 doses of rush, so the shot currently in final testing. We are pretty sure the russian books, even the bees see if you lose a book she may have to do action because she knows their world. They would have news headlines. My colleague, nicky aaron will be taking over more in just about 60 minutes on behalf of the R T International team