Podcasts about cia director gina haspel

We covered the cartoonishly racist defense arguments in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers. A guy drove his car into Christmas parade in Wisconsin that killed people. The Dutch PM referred to violent protesters of coronavirus restrictions as idiots. In Austria, the vaccine hesitant will be fined thousands. There's a coronavirus surge in kids in Massachusetts. A uptick corona is expected after Thanksgiving. In unsurprising news, a COVID party turned into a super spreader event. Crackpot Trump lawyer Sidney Powell ordered the defense department to rescue CIA Director Gina Haspel from Germany when she was actually just down the hall. Actor  Matthew McConaughey leads the current Texas Governor in polls. Former CrabDiving interviewee Roger Stone and Infowarrior kook Alex Jones were summoned to testify before Congress regarding the insurrection. The Crabs ended the podcast with a fabulous clip of My Pillow Czar Mike Lindell saying wild crap about the previous election.

Listen to our archived episodes: RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman and Greg Dworkin retire fellow Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo brother Jacob Chansley's horns. We'll miss that idiot on bowling nights. Plenty of other crazy idiots that we're eager to miss: Matt Gaetz just might adopt Kyle Rittenhouse. (Nestor writes “Kevlar” down on his Christmas wish list.) Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, is chock full of idiocy. For instance, there's the tale of swashbuckling Sidney Powell, seeking permission to rescue CIA Director Gina Haspel from imaginary German pirates. Small idiot fish in a big idiot pond Tina Peters hit the big time with an FBI raid in her election data breach investigation. Many of these idiots will soon share bunks with Jacob Chansley. Or, maybe they'll be heroes, demigods of the future Republican empire.   Not an idiot: If you know “I'm Just a Bill”, you know Dave Frishberg. Frishberg was about a lot more than just that one song, so you actually probably know him a lot more also. Joe just vaccinated 2.6 million kids in 10 days. Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Mancino, under direct orders from Oklahoma's Governor, will no longer sit back and allow the Biden administration to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Iowa's Governor however is happy to take COVID funds and make it rain for office staff. Meanwhile, Germany is being hit with another big COVID surge, and disease control scientists are tired of arguing with politicians about what to do. Back here, voters are bored with Democrats and just might see what the Republicans are up to again. Maybe Dems should get off their niche identity politics, like infrastructure and onto old, white, male, Christian, identity politics, like gasoline prices. Or, perhaps federal grants for guillotines.

Just 22 days after Steve Bannon was referred to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress, we have an indictment. Is that a long time? No, very much not. Ken says that's the speed you'd expect for someone who's robbed a break or something “showy that involves guns.” What happens next? What does the government have to prove here? And what message does this send to the other people defying subpoenas? Then: Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” has dropped her long-running defamation lawsuit against former Presidnet Trump, not long before he was supposed to finally be deposed. Zervos accused Trump of groping her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007, and in 2016, Trump denied meeting her or greeting her inappropriately. She sued him for defamation, and he successfully delayed the litigation through his presidency. Lately though, it appeared that lawyers were negotiating his deposition. Now Zervos's lawyers say she “no longer wishes to litigate against the defendant and has secured the right to speak freely about her experience.” Josh and Ken read the tea leaves here. Plus: an update on the National Archives documents, Alex Jones, and Sidney Powell and the curious story of the supposed capture of CIA Director Gina Haspel…(what???)

The top U.S. military officer today defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were in keeping with his duties as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a written statement, Gen. Mark Milley's spokesman, Col. Dave Butler, said Milley acted within his authority as the most senior uniformed adviser to the president and to the secretary of defense. "His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability," Butler said. "All calls from the chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency."  Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the president's top military aide, feared that Trump could "go rogue" after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and worried that he could stoke military conflict to cling to power and derail the peaceful transfer of power, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa write in "Peril."  Milley was not the only senior Trump administration official worried about Trump's behavior and the potential national security implications. CIA Director Gina Haspel also worried that Trump would attack Iran after he declined to rule out military action over its nuclear program in November, the authors wrote.   

Would it surprise you to learn that the FBI and DHS use a terror database that classifies the 9/11 hijackers as white, non-Hispanic Caucasians? Would it surprise you to find that this same database is used to blame Antifa and BLM terror attacks on white nationalists? Under former President Barry Soetoro, The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) database was apparently politicized and revamped such that Antifa and BLM terror attacks are almost entirely omitted while "white nationalist" violence is emphasized where, in fact, there is none. This is what DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and CIA Director Gina Haspel are citing when they invert the truth regarding the REAL terror threats to the United States. We'll have more on that, as well as the latest regarding ongoing election suits against corrupt Democrat states and President-reject Joe Biden. This is EPISODE 573 of So to Speak w/ Jared Howe!  

Colin Campbell, Washington, DC, senior news correspondent, joins us to discuss the return of the Boeing 737 MAX after two crashes, one in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia in March 2019, killed 346 people. "Single-aisle jets like the MAX and rival Airbus A320neo are workhorses that dominate global fleets and provide a major source of industry profit," Reuters reported Wednesday.Jack Rasmus, professor in Economics and Politics departments at St. Mary's College of California, talks about his latest article. He details how the US Federal Reserve injected $7 trillion into the market, which international corporations used to buy back their own shares and artificially inflate stock values. Additionally, he warns of the coming post-Christmas economic disaster as millions of Americans are set to lose unemployment benefits.Laith Marouf, broadcaster and journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon, joins us from Beirut to discuss recent reports that indicate the United States may be preparing Americans for a military attack on Iran. Additionally, he gives us his perspective on Israeli attacks on Syria based on claims that they are retaliating for bombs placed on their border.James Carey, editor and co-owner of Geopolitics Alert, joins our hosts to explain Iran's potential olive branch towards the Biden administration as the transition team lays out a simple and effective plan to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. The Iranians argue that the Biden administration could utilize a series of executive orders to immediately end sanctions and set a course for a peaceful resolution of the dispute between the two countries.Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, joins us to explore a Tuesday article in Common Dreams that argues for the prosecution of US President Donald Trump after he leaves office, using CIA Director Gina Haspel as an example of the consequences of forgoing such prosecution. US President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly signaled to aides that he wishes to move forward and views any attempt to go after Trump as a divisive act to be avoided. Mark Sleboda, Moscow-based international relations security analyst, joins us for an update on the ceasefire and potential end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. French and American diplomats are traveling to Russia to discuss the plan's final details, and the Russian government has sent troops on a peacekeeping mission to the war-torn region.Ajamu Baraka, former US vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party, returns to The Critical Hour to talk about the Bolivian election and the hero's welcome that former President Evo Morales received upon his recent return to his native land. The nation's Indigenous citizen majority has quickly recovered from a US-sponsored coup, and the effects of this powerful grassroots movement are reverberating throughout Central and South America.Kathy Kelly, American peace activist, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness and co-coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence, joins us to discuss Trump's recent move to dramatically decrease the United State's military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. The action is popular among US citizens but is being panned by pro-war think tanks and multi-government organizations such as NATO. After nearly 20 years of US combat in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg still argues that the Trump pullout is "too soon."

Where's Christopher Wray? The FBI continues to hide exculpatory evidence that would have prevented the FAKE Ukraine phone call impeachment of President Trump. An extensive email exchange between acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok's sweetheart Lisa Page during the runup to the 2016 election has been revealed. #FireWray But Wray is not alone...CIA Director Gina Haspel has been exposed as just another Cabalista as Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, Finance Committee Chairman, is openly stating that Haspel is stonewalling the legislative oversight committees and hiding key documents.. As for smoking gun emails, Joe Biden DID meet with his son Hunter and his Ukraine partners. Biden Lied, again. Speaking of lies, the great HOAX aka Communist Chinese Party Wuhan Virus fear fest is leading to a ‘Great Reset’ as the prelude to rule by unelected ‘experts’ – The COVID-Climate Technocracy is endangering the world in a attempt to enable Bozo's in lab coats to call the shots. A Democrat operative in Colorado has been exposed by Project Veritas, caught saying: "I will lie. I will cheat. I will steal. Because that's 'morally' acceptable in this political environment." The violent anarchist and psychopath, believing he speaks for the 'majority,' is ready to behead the opposition, literally. The new face of the Democrat party. Visit https://www.corsination.com where passionate patriots gather to learn and share the truth. Livestream Monday - Friday 11:00am Eastern CloutHub https://app.clouthub.com/channels (Channel #119) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/jrlcorsi Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drjeromecorsi Periscope.tv https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OwxWLqVpjwKQ?q=jerome+corsi

President Trump exited last week's shambolic debate with Joe Biden supposedly in real trouble except that he wasn't trying to convince the blue-check marks on Twitter and the media. He spoke to the right people, the voters to whom leadership through example and strength of character matter.Then he contracted COVID-19 the bogeyman of our age and beat it like a boss in three days while his people targeted CIA Director Gina Haspel's role in the soft coup against a sitting president. The screeching you hear today is the sound of a million terrible people crying out in terror into sudden irrelevance.Life is good.Show Notes:Brave Referral Codehttp://www.brave.com/tom405

##CIAUkraineParnas #HaspellLying Tracy Beanz DC Undercover reporter joins us to discuss the Lev Parnas trumped up indictment and the investigation in the Ukraine into illegal bribes and payments to Burisma and Hunter Biden. Done at the direction of VP Joe Biden. Further clouding the issue CIA Director Gina Haspel has apparently been lying to the White House regarding certain material the White House has requested be declassified. #CCPThreat BidenHarrisCCP Matt Long and the Matt Long Show join us to discuss the CCP threat and why we need to stop all purchases from China. Biden son Hunter landed a billion dollar deal with the Chinese frim BHR that he created https://www.foxnews.com/.../hunter-biden-deals-china... Also Harris husband Douglas Emhoff works for DLA Piper a global law firm that assists China in its Belt and Road Initiative which is advancing the colonization of the world including the US. #RighttoTry Dr Karladine Graves who has treated 1000's of CCP patients discusses their goal of making the right to try accessible to everyone. #HealthcareReform Matt Bellis Liberty Health Share, Liberty Healthshare will save you money, meet your families needs, get you out of the insurance bureaucratic game, address your issues of conscious, give you healthcare choices that you are in direct control of and introduce you to a faith minded community that cares about you.

In this episode, CIA Director Gina Haspel personally blocking declassification of explosive Russiagate docs. The American people need to know exactly what Biden/Obama were doing during the last election. Navy SEALS gender neutral ethos.

The bloodthirsty tyrants in Communist China are chomping at the bit to invade Taiwan. Having already absorbed Hong Kong this year, the CCP is desperate to retain power during this period of biblical judgment (drought, locusts, super typhoons, unprecedented flooding, 3 Gorges Dam peril, pig die off due to Swine Flu, etc). War will enable the Communists to focus the attention of their slaves from empty bellies and destroyed personal lives to defense of the motherland. Pray for General Michael Flynn as he appears before persecutor Judge Sullivan again today for an extension of the Deep State attempt to keep Flynn in underserved chains. The first presidential debate last night in Cleveland was unique. President Trump was forced to debate Joe (New Green Deal) Biden, Joe (No Green Deal) Biden, and Chris (The UnInvisible Man) Wallace. Through it all, Biden was able to undeftly not directly answer any question, take several positions on the same issue, and spout a myriad of lies. CIA Director Gina Haspel is temporarily preventing the release of the remaining RussiaGate documents; however, DNI Ratcliffe has final say over the declass. Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey appeared before Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's Judiciary Committee, but it seems he left his memory behind...erased like the Mueller American Inquisition team devices? The vaccine trials are failing, with side effects worse in many cases than contracting the disease itself. Dr. Corsi joined Dr. Karladine Graves & Dr. Vladamir Zelenko, on the front lines fighting the Communist Chinese Wuhan Virus. President Trump & First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Are prayers are with them both & the nation as the forces of darkness continue their relentless attack against humanity. May this be the turning point, a new awareness, for the opposition to the Zelenko Protocol to be vanquished. For the truth that Hydroxychloroquine, this 70 year old medication, the Swiss Army Knife of medications is the answer. HCQ+Zinc, combined with the patient-first approach Dr. Graves, Dr. Zelenko, and the other physicians we have interviewed on Corsi Nation this year will save humanity. Visit https://www.corsination.com where passionate patriots gather to learn and share the truth. Livestream Monday - Friday 11:00am Eastern CloutHub https://app.clouthub.com/channels (Channel #119) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/jrlcorsi Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drjeromecorsi Periscope.tv https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OwxWLqVpjwKQ?q=jerome+corsi

Sean Davis of The Federalist reports that CIA Director Gina Haspel is personally blocking the declassification of documents that would reveal “what actually happened” during the Russia collusion scandal—a planned coup against the incoming Trump administration. 5) Presidential debate committee considers rule changes for next debate; 4) CIA Director Gina Haspel blocking declassification of more Russia collusion hoax documents; 3) Leaked documents reveal Western PSYOP using media to shape image of Syrian rebels; 2) Federal Reserve Bank considers plan to launch digital currency, bypassing Congress and commercial banks; 1) Case Western Reserve, site of Tuesday’s debate, opens support centers for students triggered by debate.

As Joe Biden heads down the tracks to defeat, his train tour has quickly replicated his other campaign appearances...in the private car with three people, the camera pans out the window to find a sea of people waving and indicating their support for...President Trump. The reviews are in...Chris Wallace's debut as moderator of the debate was a DNC directed flop. Try as he did to Shield Biden from the damaging truth about his corruption and 47 years of failure in Congress, President Trump bulldozed through the Wallace's roadblocks. CIA Director Gina Haspel is temporarily preventing the release of the remaining RussiaGate documents; however, DNI Ratcliffe has final say over the declass, so expect the hidden truth to emerge soon...and it will be damning again to all Cabal members and Haspel as well. Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey appeared before Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's Judiciary Committee, but it seems he left his memory behind...erased like the Mueller American Inquisition team devices? The vaccine trials are failing, with side effects worse in many cases than contracting the disease itself. As Dr. Zelenko says, Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc are the answer for both prevention and early stage treatment. Trending on Google Search: Hunter Biden. Don't you hate it when people catch on to the charade? US debt continues to spiral out of control like a rocket with a bent fin...next stop, $50 trillion? Visit https://www.corsination.com where passionate patriots gather to learn and share the truth. Livestream Monday - Friday 11:00am Eastern CloutHub https://app.clouthub.com/channels (Channel #119) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/jrlcorsi Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drjeromecorsi Periscope.tv https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OwxWLqVpjwKQ?q=jerome+corsi

Lindsey Graham Talks Tough. But will he ever actually do anything? Last Chance for Graham to Move. Time for GOP Leaders to push ahead to decisive victory, especially with Democrats in such total disarray. Hoaxes Evaporating. Latest SpyGate Updates. Decoding Deep State anxiety over enigmatic CIA Director Gina Haspel. Why was Haspel applauding Trump at the SOTU? Is Haspel cooperating with AG Barr and John Durham? The Deep Staters don't seem to know, and Fusion Ken Dilanian sounds the alarm. President Trump outlines "the biggest political crime in American history," looks directly at AG Barr when describing the "very talented people" investigating the origins of SpyGate. Talented enough to crack the Surveillance State Stasi? Let's See What Happens. Saluting Devin Nunes. Notes on the powder keg of Ukraine Corruption. Rudy Guiliani's got the goods -- but can the Beltway Establishment dodge accountability? Plus, honoring The Ace Man, producer for Backbone Radio. With Listener Calls & Music via James Brown, Mike Ness, Hank Williams Sr. and Steely Dan. Sacred Song from Gram Parsons.    

Dirty Spooks Fearing The Beard. Latest SpyGate Developments. We review Fusion Natasha Bertrand's article in today's Politico, in which Deep State operatives push CIA Director Gina Haspel to obstruct the John Durham investigation into the disgraced John Brennan. Quite the spectacle, nervous spooks begging for Haspel's disobedience, hoping to maintain the CIA as an unaccountable government unto itself. Meanwhile, we conduct an important conversation into The Art and Science of Deep State Propaganda. The mechanics of manufacturing "Clouds of Suspicion" against political opponents. Our retrospective on the multiple fraudulent "Clouds" crafted by the "Six Ways from Sunday" crowd, then deployed against Donald Trump, and then sustained in the atmosphere for as long as possible. The list includes Russian Collusion, the Steele Dossier, the Intelligence Community Assessment, the Mueller Investigation and now the extended Pelosi Impeachment. See how all this works? The brutal game of power, leverage and false narratives in today's Spook Media. The evident imperative to cover up the rampant spying criminality and corruption of the Obama Era. Fortunately, President Trump has carried on unintimidated, undaunted -- impervious to the IC shakedowns. Amazing. Plus, vignettes on Dante and Disney's Frozen 2. With Listener Calls & Music via Sia, Diplo, Weezer and the Rolling Stones.

President Trump said he will nominate a junior congressman and prominent Mueller critic as the next director of national intelligence. CIA Director Gina Haspel has become a bulwark between the White House and the intelligence community. And investigators probe connections between Middle East money and the White House.

In November 2017, Indy lawyer Rick Kammen made headlines when he refused to return to Guantanamo Bay after his request to withdraw from representation of alleged USS Cole bombing mastermind Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was rescinded. Rick had served as lead defense attorney for Nashiri, who is facing the death penalty, since 2008.Rick's experience in Guantanamo is a tale that includes torture, classified information, and CIA Director Gina Haspel. Don't miss this inside look at a stranger-than-fiction story involving one of our own IndyBar members. Part 2, to be released on June 18, will delve even deeper into the latest developments on the story.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analysts and producers Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell.Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in politics, policy, and international affairs. Today they focus on the Mueller report that was released yesterday. It was more than 400 pages, and referenced hundreds of people - but what did it really say, and what does it mean? We talk about what evidence is in the report and what is not, the political implications of the report, and the way the corporate owned media is covering the report and its conclusions. Former Vice President Joe Biden will formally announce his candidacy for president next week. Along with Bernie Sanders, Biden has consistently been at the top of early opinion polling, but has also come under harsh criticism for a wide range of positions he has taken over his long career in politics. But after three failed presidential bids and eight years as vice president, can the fourth time be the charm? Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist at www.rall.com, joins the show. CIA Director Gina Haspel made a rare public appearance yesterday at Alabama’s Auburn University yesterday, ostensibly to discuss what she described as the “thrill” of her hiring more than 30 years ago. Instead, she was repeatedly interrupted by hecklers who demanded that she answer questions about her role in the CIA’s torture program. The hecklers were removed and arrested, and Haspel concluded by saying that the Agency had recently turned its focus away from terrorism and toward Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Within hours of the near destruction of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday, wealthy French citizens pledged more than $1 billion to reconstruct the landmark. But the backlash was almost immediate. French President Emmanuel Macron already is accused of being the “President of the Rich,” and the country’s yellow vest protestors are in the streets calling for social equality and higher wages and pensions. And at the same time, French police have cracked down on these protestors, causing scores of deaths and injuries. Gilbert Mercier, Editor in Chief of News Junkie Post and the author of “The Orwellian Empire,” joins the show. Sudanese protest leaders today announced plans to unveil a civilian body to take over from the country’s ruling military council, although that council has resisted calls to step aside. The event will go forward on Sunday, however, with foreign diplomats and journalists invited. Producer Walter Smolarek joins Brian and John. It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his site Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producer Nicole Roussell.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence. President Trump yesterday vetoed a measure that would have cut aid to Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, saying that it was an infringement on his authority as President. The Yemen bill passed with healthy majorities in both houses of Congress, but not by enough to override the veto. A redacted version of the Mueller report will be released tomorrow, but Democrats and their media allies already are downplaying the event. House Democrats announced that they will seek an unredacted version of the report on Friday. Meanwhile, CIA Director Gina Haspel apparently told the President that British intelligence officials told her that two children were injured and several ducks were killed in last year’s Novichok attack against a Russian dissident in the UK. There is no evidence, however, that this ever happened. Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net, whose latest article on both Counterpunch and The Polemicist is "Investigation Nation: Mueller, Russiagate, and Fake Politics," joins the show. The FBI affidavit used to charge Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange confirms that the US government targeted him for publishing information. Although he has not been charged with espionage, the affidavit, sworn by FBI agent Megan Brown, clearly accuses Assange of violating the Espionage Act and raises fears of a superseding indictment. Brian and John speak with Kevin Gosztola, a journalist for Shadowproof.com and host of the Podcast “Unauthorized Disclosure.” In a major reversal of US immigration and human rights policy, Attorney General Barr yesterday declared that detained asylum seekers who have shown that they have a credible fear of returning to their countries will no longer be able to ask a judge to grant them bail. The move will likely fill the country’s prisons and detention centers for refugees, even though they have been neither convicted of or even accused of a crime. Isabel Garcia, co-founder of Coalición de Derechos Humanos, joins the show. French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday gave a short and solemn speech in the aftermath of the fire that devastated the Cathedral of Notre Dame. He used the speech, however, to draw parallels between the fire and the Yellow Vest protests. Macron had planned the speech for Monday, and it was supposed to be exclusively about the political uprising that has shaken France for five months. Gilbert Mercier, Editor in Chief of News Junkie Post and the author of “The Orwellian Empire,” joins Brian and John. Yesterday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tapped current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a governing coalition, after a majority of Knesset members supported him. Netanyahu will now continue talks with the goal of dividing up cabinet ministries among his coalition partners. The new government is expected to be the most right wing in Israeli history, and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm that even more restrictions on Palestinian citizens of Israel are imminent. Loud & Clear producer Nicole Roussell spent the week in Israel covering the election there. She had the opportunity to speak with Jonathan Kuttab, a leading human rights attorney in Israel and Palestine. He was born in West Jerusalem, but after the Six Day War, his family moved to the United States. After practicing law with a Wall Street firm for several years, he returned home to co-found the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, al-Haw (which is a group of lawyers and others who assist with human rights issues), and the Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners. He serves on the board of directors of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Experts are sounding the alarm on measles again as authorities in the Northwest say that there are 38 confirmed cases.  Most of the confirmed cases are children under 10, 34 of them were not immunized.  Eileen Drage O'Reilly, science writer at Axios, joins us to talk about why public health officials are concerned and why some are refusing to vaccinate their kids. Next, President Trump is once again at odds with some of his top intelligence officials.  Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats both broke with the President on several foreign policy fronts including North Korea, Iran, and ISIS. Caitlin Oprysko, reporter for Politico, joins us for what they said and the President's response. Finally, Flight attendants now have to hustle for tips.  A new policy at Frontier airlines lets passengers tip the flight attendants whenever they use their cards to pay for drinks or snacks. Reaction is mixed with some welcoming the extra income, and others saying the sales jobs bogs them down when passenger safety is their main concern.  My producer Miranda joins us to break it down. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony on global threats to U.S. national security from six heads of intelligence agencies: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray, NSA Director Paul Nakasone, NGIA Director Robert Cardillo, and DIA Director Robert Ashley. In a three-hour open session, they gave testimony about North Korea, they gave testimony about Iran, and they gave some testimony that clashed with statements made by the president of the United States. But we cut out all of the bull, and left you with just the 15 minutes of the hearing that you need.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, and Sputnik news analyst Walter Smolarek.Wednesday’s weekly series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important ongoing developments of the week and put them into perspective. Today they discuss the Venezuelan coup attempt and Kamala Harris’s near-immediate walkback of Medicare for all. Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Walter Smolarek, join the show. Former presidential advisor Roger Stone entered not guilty pleas on seven felony counts in a federal court in Washington, DC yesterday and then immediately took to the airwaves to proclaim his innocence, to repeat that he will not testify against the president, and to warn the president that the Mueller investigation could mean the end of his presidency. Brian and John speak with Dr. Jerome Corsi, an author and political commentator who was close to Roger Stone and who wrote the book, “Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s Witch Hunt.” Large-scale protests are taking place in Venezuela both for and against the government today after the Supreme Court moved to freeze U.S.-backed self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó’s bank accounts and to impose a travel ban on him. Guaidó responded by calling on the military to side with him and he asked the United States to send weapons and advisors to help him overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Lucas Koerner, an activist and writer for VenezuelAnalysis.com, joins the show. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and FBI Director Christopher Wray delivered their annual intelligence threat assessment yesterday in an open hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Notably, they contradicted Donald Trump on nearly every major issue: the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, ISIS, and China. Kevin Zeese, the co-coordinator of Popular Resistance, which is at popularresistance.org, joins Brian and John. The US and China met today to try to dig out from a damaging trade war with a new round of high-level talks aimed at bridging deep differences over China’s intellectual property and technology transfer policies. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer represented the United States, while the Chinese delegation was led by Vice Premier Liu He. The deadline for an agreement is March 1. Jude Woodward, the author of the new book “The US vs China: Asia's new Cold War?,” joins the show.The British Parliament yesterday narrowly failed to approve an amendment giving it the power to instruct Prime Minister Theresa May to seek a delay to avoid a disorderly and possibly chaotic exit from the European Union on March 29. May later lost a nonbinding amendment that said the UK should not leave the EU without a Brexit deal. With chaos deepening, Prime Minister May today held a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party. Brian and John speak with Steve Hedley, the senior assistant general secretary of the the UK’s Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers Union.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, and by Sputnik news analysts Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek.Wednesday’s weekly series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important ongoing developments of the week and puts them into perspective. Their conversation includes the televised address about the wall and the shutdown last night, the coup in Gabon, and the outrage over an organization rescinding a civil rights award to Angela Davis. Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show. President Trump’s Oval Office speech last night calling for $5 billion to construct a wall along the border with Mexico apparently did nothing to bring politicians on Capitol Hill any closer together. Meanwhile, with no end to the government shutdown in sight, Republicans in both the House and Senate are beginning to break away from the President. Brian and John speak with Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter and founder of This Can’t Be Happening!, as well as a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to the London Review of Books, The Nation, Extra! Tarbell, and Salon.com. Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are set to go on strike tomorrow after years of frustration over class sizes, salaries, and a shortage of nurses and school counselors. The district has made several offers, but the teachers union says they don’t go far enough. So barring a last-minute deal, 32,000 teachers will walk off the job tomorrow. Cecily Myart-Cruz, a teacher in the LA Unified School District for 23 years and the Vice President of United Teachers Los Angeles/National Education Association, the teachers union, joins the show. Newly declassified information suggests that CIA Director Gina Haspel was in charge of a secret CIA base at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, a site notorious around the world for torture of detainees. If true, the revelation shows a much deeper involvement in CIA torture than Haspel has so far admitted to. Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort made a critical error yesterday when they filed motions in federal court and accidentally revealed that Manafort had met in 2016 with Konstantin Kilimnik, and passed him polling data. But once again, crucial details are being left out of the mainstream media narrative. Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books—“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War,” joins the show.States and localities across the country are expanding healthcare access to their residents, despite the fact that Republicans at the federal level are still seeking to weaken or do away with the Affordable Care Act. Single-payer healthcare is a widely popular idea, but what is the best way to go about achieving it? Brian and John speak with Dr. Margaret Flowers, a medical doctor and the co-coordinator of Popular Resistance, at PopularResistance.org.

On episode 43 of Salt of The Streets podcast Don and Offie cover as much information as they have on the closed door Senate briefing given by CIA Director Gina Haspel about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi (0:12:00), a deeper look into the positive and negative take aways from the life of George H W Bush (0:44:00), the Miami Miracle is caught on audio with Don's reaction, discussion about honesty in all its forms (1:28:00), and in the grab bag (1:58:00) Paul McCartney draws emotion from a late night host, The White House demands decorum, France rebels against fuel taxes and as always, SPORTS!!

Join us for another Midday News Wrap.U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III was the man of the week after new developments in his investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. In a heavily redacted court filing, Mueller announced that he would not pursue prison time for President Trump’s former national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, because of his ----significant---- cooperation with the investigation. Mueller's prosecutors in DC and a team in the Southern District of New York were scheduled to submit separate sentencing memos on Friday for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.Tom talks with Washington Post national security reporter Devlin Barrett about the Mueller team's multiple ongoing probes.Those probes weren't the only stories dominating headlines this week: US senators, including some leading Republicans, responded to the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after their closed-door briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel; the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics refused to certify the election of Republican House candidate Mark Harris over allegations of systematic voter fraud in the state’s 9th district; and many around the country mourned former President George H.W. Bush after his death last Friday.NPR lead politics editor Domenico Montanaro joins Tom from NPR studios in Washington to discuss these and other major news developments this week.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dennis Bernstein., an author, poet, activist, and co-host of the political news show Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio, and Jackie Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, whose livestream is on every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook. The funeral of former president George H. W. Bush was held this morning at Washington’s National Cathedral with three former presidents and three former first ladies in attendance. Brian and John have looked at the legacy of George H. W. Bush every day this week and focus today on the Gulf War, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration. Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show. Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan were wiped out of their states’ top offices in last month’s election. But both legislatures called lame duck sessions to strip incoming Democratic governors of much of their power. The bills also would reduce the time for early voting and throw poor people off of Medicaid. Brian and John speak with Matt Brusky, the deputy director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge to sentence former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to probation -- not jail time -- for lying to the FBI, citing Flynn’s exceptional assistance in the Russia collusion investigation. Later this week, former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort will be back in court, where Mueller will have to identify what Manafort has done to break his plea deal. And meanwhile, new information has emerged that Manafort met with Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno in 2017 about a complex deal that would involve Julian Assange’s expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net, joins the show. CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed a bipartisan group of senators on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi yesterday. Many came out of the briefing offering angry accounts of the information Haspel conveyed and said there was no doubt in their minds that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the assassination. Ali al-Ahmed, the director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, joins Brian and John. A Houthi delegation and the UN special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Stockholm last night in advance of peace talks with the Yemeni government. A Saudi delegation is expected to arrive today. Mediators from Kuwait, which hosted the last direct talks in 2016, are also in Sweden for the meetings, which should begin today. Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, joins the show.Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro left for Moscow this morning, where he’ll meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin. No specific reason for the meeting was announced, but Putin said that he is acutely aware of the economic crisis in Venezuela and the media are speculating that oil and gas will be on the agenda. Brian and John speak with Paul Dobson, a writer for VenezuelaAnalysis.com.

There is a growing trend of people using a feature on the iPhone called AirDrop to send lewd pictures to unsuspecting strangers and its being called “cyber flashing.” It has become such a problem, that a bill was introduced last week by two members of the New York City Council that would punish people who send harassing and explicit photos with up to a year in jail or a $1000 fine. Issie Lapowsky, senior writer for Wired, joins us to discuss the AirDrop problem and how this law would even work. Next, CIA Director Gina Haspel has briefed Senators on their assessment that Saudia Arabia's Crown Prince ordered and monitored the killing of journalist Jamaal Khashoggi, and they were not happy. Sen. Bob Corker said that if the crown prince was in front of a jury, he would be convicted in about 30 minutes. Gregg Hellman, defense reporter for Politico, joins us to discuss how we know the crown prince probably ordered the hit. Finally, microblogging site Tumblr has decided that it will delete all adult content from its platform and it has caused an uproar with the users who flocked to the site for its art positive and sex positive platform. This comes at a time when Tumblr has been removed from the Apple App store for some child pornography found on the service. My producer Miranda joins us for why some are saying this may be the end for Tumblr. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Robert Mueller Michael Flynn Memo, the death of former President George H.W. Bush, Roger Stone and George Conway are just some of the topics we explore this week on The Halli Casser-Jayne Podcast when Halli and her partner in politics veteran White House correspondent Matthew Cooper wax eloquent on all things politics, the podcast posted on all your favorite sites and apps and at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.As we do every week, newsman Matthew Cooper joins Halli for their politics segment, PODCAST AMERICA, in which Matt and Halli slice and dice all things politics. And what a week it has been. Special counsel Robert Mueller kept political junkies and Donald Trump waiting until late in the evening to file his sentencing memo for Trump's short-lived NSA chief, Michael Flynn; we lost one of our presidents, George H.W. Bush, Trump tweeted vociferously this week asking many to ask if Trump's twitter feed wasn't his vehicle for committing obstruction of justice and witness tampering in plain sight; the Joy Behar and Meghan McCain went after each other on ‘The View' like, well, two cats; and CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed "key" lawmakers on the Khashoggi murder, fingering the Crown Prince aka MBS, much to Trump's dismay. It was just another week in the storied presidency of Donald J. Trump. Welcome to The Halli Casser-Jayne Show and we're just beginning.Vice President Mike Pence, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, George Conway, Bill and Hillary Clinton, those subjects and more when journalists Halli Casser-Jayne and Matthew Cooper present their fun and insightful political conversation on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show the podcast posted at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the Senate’s historic War Powers vote on Wednesday, the first step toward reining in US participation in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. The US has been supporting Saudi Arabia with weapons and intelligence for years, but the Senate just took a major — unprecedented, in fact — step toward stopping it. On Elsewhere, they run through the UK’s deal with the EU on the terms of Brexit and why Parliament might end up rejecting the deal in December. Zack does a terrible British accent, Jenn manages to repeatedly work the word “omnishambles” into the conversation, and Alex talks about a “garden of unicorns.” References: Alex Ward wrote a great explainer on the recent Senate vote. The full clip of Sens. Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders speaking about the war in Yemen on NBC. For a deeper dive on the Khashoggi murder, you can listen to our last episode, or read our latest Khashoggi coverage here.   Trump offered his full-throated support for Saudi Arabia in an (as Alex put it) childlike statement. Jenn paraphrased Sen. Chris Murphy’s reaction to the Senate vote, but his direct quote is here: "I’ve been at this for 3 years, and I am blown away by this.” Zack interviewed Murphy in 2015 and he discussed similar themes. A top Saudi Arabia expert told the New York Times that the Senate vote was an “unprecedented setback” for the US-Saudi alliance. A little nuance to add to Jenn’s point about Germany’s support of the war in Yemen. Directly after Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Germany announced that it would stop exporting arms to Saudi Arabia, but then approved an arms sale anyway. Jenn mentioned that other Western countries support the Saudi-led war in Yemen, including the UK, Germany, and France. Alex mentioned that the senators wanted to hear from CIA Director Gina Haspel before their vote, but couldn’t. Here’s some backstory on that. Jenn walked through a couple of things that did not push us to break our relationship with Saudi Arabia, including  Saudi involvement in 9/11 and the Saudi coalition bombings of school buses. She also offered Vox’s Brian Resnick’s piece about psychic numbing as a possible explanation for the impact that Khashoggi’s murder has had. Zack noted that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is actually destabilizing the Middle East, despite US assurances to the contrary, and Jenn offered the Qatar blockade as an example.   For further reading on our Brexit Elsewhere, Jenn recommends this explainer on the Brexit deal and this explainer on the economic effects that Brexit will have.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, won the special runoff election yesterday, defeating the Democratic candidate, Mike Espy, who was trying become the state's first black senator since Reconstruction. Hyde-Smith will serve out the final two years of Thad Cochran's term and make history as the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi. This sets the Republican majority in the Senate chamber at 53 to 47 once the new Congress is sworn in, a net pickup of two seats. Do the results in Mississippi provide any additional information about the American political landscape? If so, what? House Democrats chose their leadership today. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi carried the vote to be the Democrat nominee for House Speaker, the position she previously held from 2007 to 2011, the last time Democrats held a majority in the chamber. In the upcoming January vote, she must win the support of at least 218 House members. Earlier today, nine Democrats from the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus reached an agreement with Pelosi on rules reforms to advance bipartisan legislation. Those members will now support her bid for speaker. The phony left, represented by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, mouth the right words but then sign on to Pelosi and the rest of the discredited gang. Are Ocasio-Cortez and some of the others engaging in realpolitik or rolling over? Her connection to Bernie Sanders is tainted by his sheep dogging for the Democrats.Opponents of the war in Yemen have picked up momentum heading into a critical Senate vote today on the Yemen amendment, which would end US support for the Saudi-led coalition. In a procedural vote, the Senate voted 55-44 against a similar measure in March, with 10 Democrats voting against it. But five Republicans voted in favor at the time. What's brought about the change in the Senate? The chamber is likely to advance the resolution after several Republicans and Democrats today expressed frustration with the Trump administration for refusing to fully brief lawmakers on Saudi Arabia's war campaign and the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Senators emerging from a closed-door briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said they were furious the session did not also include CIA Director Gina Haspel, whom they want to question about the agency's high-confidence assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman orchestrated Khashoggi's murder. Supporters say the measure is a vital step toward Congress reasserting its authority on matters of war after years of ceding such decisions to the president. It would also rebuke Saudi Arabia for its conduct in Yemen – which has sparked what UN officials say is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and led to thousands of civilian deaths.GUESTS:Dr. Joseph Graves — American scientist who serves as associate dean for research and a professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. He has also written two books that address myths and theories of race in American society. Graves has made appearances in six documentary films on these general topics. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission. He was named by US Black Engineer Magazine and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Council of Deans as one of the 2017 "Innovators of the Year."Gary Flowers — Host of The Gary Flowers Show on Radio 990 WREJ, former vice president for public policy for Reverend Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition and former executive director and CEO of the Black Leadership Forum, Inc.Mac Hamilton — Executive Manager at STAND: The Student-led Movement to End Mass Atrocities.

There is tons of unrest surrounding the Saudi situation, as John Bolton refuses to listen to the audio tapes of the murder and CIA Director Gina Haspel will not be joining the briefing to the US Senate. General Motors is squaring off with President Trump over thousands of planned layoffs. A woman in Georgia got busted for having cotton candy in her car that the cops thought was meth; and other headlines, including a feel good story about a lost wallet, an autistic basketball player, and an alarming active shooter drill in a military hospital.   

It's Friday: that means it's panel time. We'll turn to them to get analysis on the important stories of this week!Federal authorities made an arrest on Friday in connection with the nationwide bombing campaign against outspoken critics of President Trump. The suspect is Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, of Aventura, Fla. It was not clear whether the authorities were seeking other suspects, or if they believed Mr. Sayoc acted alone. The details surrounding this event are being fairly clearly hashed out. Sayoc has been charged in Manhattan with five federal crimes, including the interstate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, making threats against former presidents, threatening interstate communication and assaulting former and current federal officers. With that said, why is Sayoc not being charged with terrorism? Is US President Donald Trump an aberration, an outlier or the culmination of a history of anger and vitriol?President Trump is considering a major speech on Tuesday to announce a broad crackdown on the southern border. He is expected to use the remarks to outline his plans to fortify the border, including executive actions he is considering to deny entry to Central American migrants and asylum-seekers, and the deployment of hundreds of United States Army troops to aid in the effort. It is being reported that he plans to invoke broad presidential powers to bar foreigners from entering the country for national security reasons — under the same section of immigration law that underpinned the travel ban — to block Central American migrants from crossing the southern border. Trump reportedly plans to put in place new rules that would disqualify migrants who cross the border in between ports of entry from claiming asylum. Exceptions would be made for people facing torture at home. According to American immigration law, people arriving at ports of entry on the United States border have the right to seek asylum, and, if they demonstrate a “credible fear” of returning home, to have their claims processed with the possibility of eventually being granted legal status to stay. Those who do not go to a checkpoint but are apprehended crossing the border without authorization can also make such a claim and must, under the law, be afforded a chance to have their cases heard.CIA Director Gina Haspel, or “Bloody Gina,” as she is affectionately known, briefed President Trump yesterday about her trip this week to Turkey, where she listened to audio purportedly capturing the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that its agents murdered the dissident Saudi journalist in what Saudi public prosecutors called a “premeditated” operation. That was another change in the Saudis' story. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and his father, King Salman, have both repeatedly assured Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who traveled to Saudi Arabia last week, that they had no knowledge of a plot to kill Khashoggi. Trump initially described the Saudi explanation last Saturday as credible. But in recent days he has expressed doubt, calling it “the worst cover-up ever,” although he has not directly pointed the finger at the Saudi leadership. Instead, Pompeo announced that visas held by the Saudis arrested in connection with the case were being revoked, and the White House on Monday dispatched Haspel to Turkey.Megyn Kelly will not return to her 9 a.m. program on NBC, the network said today, as the beleaguered host remains in negotiations over a likely exit from the NBC airwaves. After her time at Fox News, wherein 2013 she argued, "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have- he's a historical figure; that's a verifiable fact. As is Santa. I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?," she then went to NBC and was confused this week about why wearing blackface at Halloween is no longer in vogue. "But what is racist? You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween … That was OK when I was a kid, as long as you were dressing as a character," Kelly said.Molly Ball writes at TIME: "Michael Avenatti, the lawyer and possible presidential candidate, caused a stir with his contention that there's only one type of candidate who can beat President Trump. In an interview with TIME published Thursday, Avenatti said the Democrats' 2020 nominee 'better be a white male,' because society affords more credibility to white men than it does others.” Here's another quote from the longer interview piece from Thursday, written by Ball and Alana Abramson: “A run for President would thrust Avenatti into the middle of the party's identity crisis. The Democrats have not been this powerless since the 1920s, and their members have responded by nominating a historic number of women and people of color for the office. But when it comes to the party's presidential nominee in 2020, Avenatti thinks in different terms. 'I think it better be a white male,' he says. He hastens to add that he wishes it weren't so, but it's undeniable that people listen to white men more than they do others; it's why he's been successful representing [Stormy] Daniels and immigrant mothers, he says. 'When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight,' he says. 'Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.'" Does Avenatti's lingo in his statement sound as bigoted as the people he's accusing of being bigoted? GUESTS: Shermichael Singleton — Political analyst.Jon Jeter — Author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent.Caleb Maupin — Journalist and political analyst who focuses his coverage on US foreign policy and the global system of monopoly capitalism and imperialism. He has appeared on Russia Today, PressTV, TeleSur and CNN. He has reported from across the United States, as well as from Iran, the Gulf of Aden and Venezuela.Colin Campbell — Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard University's School of Communication.

Conformation hearings for CIA Director Gina Haspel dredged up the issue of intelligence community members doing things sanctioned by the nation but later revisited. Occasionally intelligence practitioners find themselves caught in legal trouble not totally of their own making. That's the idea behind a new legal referral service called Council on Intelligence Issues. Founders George Jameson, a 30-year veteran of the CIA, and William Murray, who spent 40 years there and a distinguished career intelligence medal, discussed it on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, and Mark Sleboda, an international affairs and security analyst.Once again, chaos is engulfing Washington over a series of u-turns made by the Trump administration in the wake of the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit. Meanwhile, developments in the Mueller probe are making it clearer than ever that the investigation is deeply connected to the big picture of U.S.-Russia relations. On today’s regular Friday segment covering the upcoming midterm elections, the hosts talk about Ocasio-Cortez, DeLeon over Feinstein, and the House Democrats’ ridiculous new slogan. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, and the co-host of the Facebook livestream “Coffee, Current Events & Politics” Thursdays at 9 p.m., joins the show. Israeli occupation authorities are facing more protests today in Gaza as at least two Palestinians were killed and three were injured in an Israeli air raid and at the Gaza border during protests. Israel has pledged an even tougher response to Palestinian sending flammable kites and balloons carrying firebombs across the border. Richard Becker, an anti-war organizer and author of the book “Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire,” joins the show.A secret letter was just revealed yesterday from Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, asking for support in a competitive election last May. He painted current Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad as a threat to US interests. Najib has since been indicted on several corruption charges, including abuse of power. Brian and John speak with Nile Bowie, a writer and journalist with the Asia Times, covering Singapore and Malaysia. A South Korean court today sentenced former president Park Geun Hye to an additional eight years in prison for abusing state funds and violating election laws. Park is already serving 24 years in prison for a massive corruption scandal. Simone Chun, a fellow at the Korea Policy Institute and a member of the Korean Peace Network, joins Brian and John. Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went in front of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday, where she fully dodged many senators’ questions of her. What we did find out is that she has almost no financial experience, having worked most of her career in the Department of Homeland Security. So why is she the nominee for the CFPB? Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net, whose most recent piece is “Fighting Fake Stories: The New Yorker, Israel and Obama,” joins the show.The hosts continue the regular segment of the worst and most misleading headlines. Walter and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News, where you can find more ridiculous headlines from the week, and Loud & Clear producer Nicole Roussell.

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud the confirmation of CIA Director Gina Haspel, discussing the six Democrats who ended up back the nomination and their likely political calculations.  They also shudder at reports that efforts are underway to create a TV show featuring former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci and Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti.  And they walk through the rough public relations performance of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who seems to be creating more controversies than he's resolving.Note: The Texas high school shooting was first being reported at the time the podcast was recorded Friday morning.  Details were scarce and Jim and Greg determined it was irresponsible to comment on it until the facts are established.  Certainly, our prayers are with the families of those killed and for the recovery of those injured.

A #StrangeDaysPodcast EXCLUSIVE! For the first time ever, we brought together MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance and Phil Mudd, for an important conversation with an incredible panel featuring none other than POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo and Miami Book Fair's Mitchell Kaplan. We're talking Mueller investigation, James Comey, newly-appointed CIA Director Gina Haspel, and more. LIVE from Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL. This conversation is not one to miss folks. Have any questions for me? Send a message to Strange Days Podcast, tweet them to @AmandiOnAir, or email them to strangedayspod@gmail.com and you may be featured in our next episode.

President Trump pulled the United States out of the disastrous Iran Deal. We’ll analyze that, and discuss incoming CIA Director Gina Haspel with former CIA Station Chief, Scott Uehlinger. More allegations leveled against Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but is there anything there? I’ll tell you. And four states decided primaries last night. We’ll recap the winners and the losers.

Join Browntown this week as they discuss Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes’ questionable collection of black turtlenecks, High School Students’ and Pawpatrol’s observance of National School Walkout Day, and the first ever female CIA Director Gina Haspel. The cousins give Kim Petras a reluctant listen and recognize the unflinching power of Rihanna over the financial markets.

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan will analyze the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and the promotion of Mike Pompeo to take Tillerson's place, and Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo as CIA Director. What will this change mean regarding U.S. policies toward North Korea, Syria, Israel, Europe, Iran, Russia, and China—will the chances for war increase? Considering the unprecedented and unpresidential turnover, is this a sign the Trump Administration is in turmoil?Fault Lines hosts and guests will discuss the narrow lead the Democrat Conor Lamb holds over his Republican challenger Rick Saccone in the Pennsylvania special congressional election. FOX news reports, “the close margin was another setback for the president following Democratic Sen. Doug Jones' victory in Alabama's special election in December.” Considering that Trump won this district by 20% in 2016, is this a bellwether for the November midterms? Are Democrats poised for a historic “Blue Wave” election?Hosts and guests will also evaluate a possible meeting between North Korean Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump; guilty verdicts in the Percoco corruption trial; defamation accusations against Lee and guest Jim Hoft; the “Gig” Economy; and presumptive CIA Director Gina Haspel's record regarding torture and destruction of evidence—as well as other important news and issues in the “Divided States of America.”Scheduled Guests–subject to change: Matt Stiles, LA Times Correspondent | Topic: Possible Trump/Kim Summit Meeting Dominic Carter, Veteran Legal Reporter | Topic: Guilty Verdicts in the Percoco Corruption TrialJim Hoft | Topic: The Defamation Allegations Against Lee and Jim HoftMark Frost, Economist | Topic: The “Gig” EconomyJohn Kiriakou, CIA Whistleblower, Cohost of “Loud And Clear” Radio Show | Topic: Gina Haspel, Trump's announced nominee for CIA Director

This week's show opens with Jay's thoughts on the life and presidency of George H.W. Bush. Mike, who like Jay greatly admired Bush, adds that it wasn't long after Bush left office that the GOP took a decisive turn toward a nastier, more in-your-face approach to politics that he thinks was a wrong turn for the party and the country. After that comes a discussion of alleged absentee ballot vote fraud in North Carolina. Both Mike and Jay have concerns about it, with Mike pointing out that this isn't the sort of fraud targeted by all of the Republican anti vote fraud measures of recent years. Mike argues that that's because absentee voting tends to favor Republicans, and the whole vote fraud crackdown has been a cover for suppressing Democratic turnout. Jay disagrees, arguing that in-person fraud has been the initial focus because it's easier to address. He adds that there should be less voting by mail, a position Mike strongly disagrees with, over concerns with unfair barriers to participation. Then it's a look at actions taken by the Wisconsin and Michigan lame duck Republican legislatures to limit the power of incoming Democratic officials. Mike says that this sort of kneecapping of the other party, while done by both sides, is done more by Republicans. Jay isn't so sure, and doesn't really buy Mike's argument that this violates an important political norm. Next is discussion of CIA Director Gina Haspel's briefing to Senators about the involvement of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mike and Jay agree that the evidence seems compelling, but they disagree about what the consequences should be. Mike argues for cutting off all military aid and weapons sales to the Saudis, at least for a while, whereas Jay thinks that might be too damaging to the important US / Saudi Arabia relationship. The show closes with the U.S. / China trade war. Once again, it seems that President Trump has overstated what he accomplished, with Jay pointing out that Trump's injection of so much uncertainty into the trade relationship has been tough on businesses. The Guys also discuss what effect the arrest of the CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei might have on U.S. / China relations. *Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible*. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support ( http://www.politicsguys.com/support ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy