sort of. like you know that i got. to. welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is award winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal elections commission total federal election fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we haven t even started the primaries. what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. it s more about what it says about the state of politics it s what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas it s about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. about making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think what s so i
to balance the books. expect action when philip hammond unveils the contents of the famous red briefcase next wednesday. it has been a big day in northern ireland, results being declared in the northern ireland assembly election. these were pictures from earlier, 7a seats declared not long ago, sinn fein and the dup polling strongly. one developing piece of news, as a result of his party not looking like it will do so well, the ulster unionist party debt mike nesbitt has announced that he will resign leader. he felt he had to ta ke resign leader. he felt he had to take responsibility for the rejection of his party s message and what had happened. the election was called after sinn fein withdrew from the power sharing executive in january. that is all from me, we re now going tojoin january. that is all from me, we re now going to join a special election programme presented by my colleagues. they have reporters at every cou nt colleagues. they have reporters at every cou
assistance. and we didn t take away that program. we actually just raised the barometer to $20, and it saved taxpayers $8 billion in the program. that s $8 billion that we can put towards making sure that those who need benefits the most are going to get them. ial believe that we ought to implement i also believe we ought to implement some kind of work requirement that was common place under the clinton era welfare to work program that s been changed during this administration. and i, for the life of me, cannot understand why america should be satisfied with a program that doesn t require an able-bodied adult who has no dependent children, who is not enrolled in a training or education program, who doesn t take care of an adult dependent, who doesn t meet a plethora of other exemptions, i don t know why we can t pair them with a job. and if a job is not available, why can t we pair them with community service or volunteer service opportunities where they can learn skills th
innocents. took a look at the politics of this right now is that in 2014 you ve got the majority of the senate seats that it would take place in states where frankly the hispanic vote is not large enough to play critical role. louisiana, north carolina, arkansas, colorado you could make a case that will play critical role but to so many of the senators sided with republicans saying t through the continuing resolution funding for implementation of daca should be eliminated and that authority should be rescinded. the politics and immigration are pretty ugly redneck i think it s really important that none of the ugly right now. none urge congress to move forward. from our perspective after we re finding hope. over the last month or so we did over one dozen conversations with conservatives, faith, law enforcement and business leaders. in south carolina we had evangelical pastors, business is a law-enforcement saying we got it going going. before we came on i mentioned the f
state university and the university of south dakota law school. from 1973 through 1990, he was a state s attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. he served as the chief deputy attorney general for south dakota. in 2002 was elected t eed the s dakota attorney general. he has been a judge since then. he created the 24/7 sobriety program you will hear about today. it s a zero tolerance program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to prison. it has been recognized as being effective, efficient and humane. in 2008, council of state governments saw the merit in the program by awarding it an innovations award. the institute for behavior and health awarded it the john p. mcgovern award in 2009. the national highway traffic safety administration gave it the life savosaver s award in 2. to his left is the honorable stephen ohm. judge ohm is a former prosecutor and now sits as a judge in hawaii. from 1994 to 2001, he was