Trump news on Youtube Feb 9 2019

hey in this room it's so hot in here maybe I'll start to believe in myself

she's a jackass jackass she's a jackass

Ah I don't know what I said Ah I don't remember

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

what I say is what I say I'm sorry we need money

I've been very nice to you although I could probably maybe not be

based on the way you have treated me

but i wouldn't do that

what I say is what i say

so i spent a long time this morning

on making my shoes so beautiful so shiny

This is the legacy death destruction terrorism and weakness

wouldn't that be embarrassing

and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes

believe me we're gonna load it up

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created

I just sold an apartment for fifteen million dollars

to somebody from China

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

every woman lied

when they came forward to hurt my campaign

if Hillary Clinton were a man

i don't think she will get 5% of the vote

Russia if you're listening I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails

they are missing

President Obama he is the founder of ISIS

he is the founder of ISIS

Obamacare

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

i would build a great wall

and nobody builds walls better than me believe me

free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people

but we have people that are stupid

The American dream is dead

but mr. Trump you're not a nice person I think I am a nice person

we have losers we have losers

I don't wear a toupee I don't wear a toupee

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Trending: Ivanka Trump Vacuuming - Duration: 0:48.

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Russia investigation highlights Trump's conditional loyalty - Duration: 3:46.

You see, I'm so loyal to people and maybe I'm loyal to a fault.

For as long as Trump has been in the public eye, he's described himself as loyal.

Here's the thing, I'm a loyal person.

I love loyalty.

I'm loyal.

I'm a loyal person.

But now, six members of Trump's orbit have been indicted on a range of crimes,

from tax fraud to conspiracy against the United States.

How has Trump's famous loyalty held up?

Early in 2019, Trump's longtime ally and supporter,

Roger Stone was indicted on seven counts of false statements, obstruction, and witness tampering.

Before the indictment, Stone was praised by the president for his guts.

I am a fervent supporter of the president.

Even though Stone pleaded not guilty and seems unwilling to cooperate with the investigation,

Trump made sure to distance himself.

Your friend Roger Stone was just indicted for his involvement.

First of all, Roger Stone didn't work on the campaign,

except way way at the beginning long before we're talking about.

And then there's Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer and "fixer"

I'll do anything to protect Mr. Trump.

When Cohen's house was first raided by the FBI in April 2018, Trump had strong words of support.

But after Cohen started cooperating with authorities, he was a bad lawyer and a rat.

And what about the other Michael who's been in hot water since Trump became president?

We do not need a reckless president who believes she is above the law.

Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned just 24 days after Trump's inauguration

for lying about his contacts with then-Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak .

This man has served for many years, he's a general, he's a — in my opinion — a very good person.

By the end of 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI

and started cooperating with the Mueller investigation.

And now, according to his former boss, Flynn was tricked into cooperating.

They took a General that they said didn't lie and they convinced him he did lie

And apparently, the only reason Mueller recommended no prison time for Flynn in December of 2018

was not because of his 'substantial assistance', but because

they were embarrassed that they got caught.

Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, is the exception that proves the rule.

This is the ultimate reality show, it's the presidency of the United States.

A year after Manafort left the campaign, the FBI raided his house

to seize materials related to the Russia investigation.

After the raid, Trump began to distance himself from Manafort.

I know Mr. Manafort – I haven't spoken to him in a long time, but I know him.

He was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time.

Fast forward to November of 2018.

After Manafort was found guilty on eight counts, he entered into a plea deal with prosecutors,

but Mueller rescinded the deal after it was clear Manafort wasn't actually cooperating.

With respect to Paul Manafort, who, it's very sad what's happened to Paul, the way he's being treated.

I've never seen anybody treated so poorly.

The only person Trump stood by was the only one who lost his plea deal because of his repeated lies to the FBI.

I am a very loyal person, I am an extremely loyal person, to a fault, frankly.

Trump's loyalty is conditional on whether or not

his associates are willing to impede the Russia investigation.

consequences for the individual be damned.

For more infomation >> Russia investigation highlights Trump's conditional loyalty - Duration: 3:46.

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Trump Shouldn't Be Allowed To Hide The Mueller Report From The Public - Duration: 3:40.

Here's the sad reality about being online, if you have used Facebook, if you have tried

to get a credit score or if you've had a yahoo email account anytime within the last three

years for any of those things, then the chances that your data has either been leaked out

to unsavory characters or just straight up sold by those corporations, the chances of

that are roughly 99 percent.

If you are a US citizen and you've done any of those three, uh, three things within the

last three years, that's pretty remarkable, right?

We're almost at almost 100 percent of us have either had our data leaked or stolen.

If we're in one of those online communities, some of us, depending on how many of those

years have had our data stolen and leaked multiple different times by multiple different

companies.

And here's the real kicker.

Nobody's gone to jail, no CEO, no executive running these companies that routinely lose

our data.

None of them have ever faced any kind of actual consequence for this except maybe a few class

action lawsuits.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden for months now has been trying to change that.

And He seems to be fighting an uphill battle all by himself to get some kind of accountability

for these massive tech companies that continuously take our data.

Ron Wyden back in the fall, introduced legislation that would set a new standard.

It would create new rules that these tech companies would have to follow with regards

to our privacy and our data, and if they lied about it or didn't do everything properly,

they could face massive fines of up to four percent of their annual revenue, which would

result in billions upon billions of dollars for some of these companies and possibly even

jail time, jail sentences, prison for the CEOs and executives of these companies who

knowingly leak our data or sell our data and then lie to us about it.

They would go to jail under Ron Wyden's new bill that he is still pushing to this day.

And again, this is a piece of legislation that desperately needs to be enacted.

This is something that has to happen here in the United States.

The tech companies, whether knowingly or unwittingly are giving away our data and the worst part

of those who know that they're doing it right, it's one thing to just be bad at your job

and you leak a bunch of data and oops, you didn't notice that a hacker was in your system

like a Kofax for months.

Stealing people's data and social security numbers and addresses and drivers license

numbers.

Oops, we didn't notice, but it's another to be a company like Facebook that takes your

private messages and sells that data.

It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that

to people without your permission Wydens.

Bill would change that.

You could opt in to a do not share list and companies would no longer be able to sell

your data.

You might have to pay a small fee to be put on that list, but it would then protect your

data.

And if the company has lied about it in their annual reports to Congress, that would be

mandatory at this point.

Or reports to regulator, excuse me.

Um, if they lied about it, they would go to jail and they would lose a lot of their profits.

Isn't that the way this should work?

If a company lies about what they're doing to you, if they're putting your personal data

up there on the auction block without your knowledge, and then they not only lie to you

about it, but lie to regulators about it.

Shouldn't that person be in jail?

Shouldn't that person be made to be an example of what not to do?

And that's what's missing in this country right now.

It's been missing for decades.

The example of what not to do, white collar criminals are rampant on Wall Street in the

tech industry, in the oil industry, the fossil fuel industry, the chemical industry.

We have seen nothing but criminal behavior from a lot of these CEOs and shareholders

and executives, pharmaceutical companies too.

They're about the worst of the worst and the reason they continue engaging in this kind

of criminal behavior, putting out a medication that they know is going to kill people, but

also make them lots of money, dumping their toxins into a waterway, knowing they're going

to poison 40,000 people, but they don't want to spend the money to properly get rid of

it.

None of those CEOs or executives who made those decisions ever went to prison, and what

that does is it sends a message to everybody else that it'll be okay.

You can afford the fine.

You don't have to worry about jail time and everybody's going to be okay.

It except of course all those people you gave cancer too who are dying slow, horrible, painful

deaths.

They're not okay, but that's not used.

So what does it matter?

Wydens.

Bill seeks to change that.

At least for the tech industry.

There is no reason why any person on Capitol Hill should vote against this.

This is about our privacy.

This is about our data.

This is about our livelihoods and if you're one of those people who have had your data

stolen and then had the deal with the fallout of that, the phone calls to credit card companies,

getting them to cancel, change your numbers, you know, try and get your money back from

a bank after your debit card number was stolen.

I've been through that.

It is hell.

And anyone who's gone through any of that understands the same thing.

The companies that allowed this to happen, they need to see their CEO's pushed out of

their pit houses, pushed out of their mansions, pushed out of the board rooms and shoved in

the back of a police car.

Not to be seen again for the next 10 years.

For more infomation >> Trump Shouldn't Be Allowed To Hide The Mueller Report From The Public - Duration: 3:40.

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Republicans BEG Democrats To Not Look At Trump's Tax Returns - Duration: 3:01.

Here's the sad reality about being online, if you have used Facebook, if you have tried

to get a credit score or if you've had a yahoo email account anytime within the last three

years for any of those things, then the chances that your data has either been leaked out

to unsavory characters or just straight up sold by those corporations, the chances of

that are roughly 99 percent.

If you are a US citizen and you've done any of those three, uh, three things within the

last three years, that's pretty remarkable, right?

We're almost at almost 100 percent of us have either had our data leaked or stolen.

If we're in one of those online communities, some of us, depending on how many of those

years have had our data stolen and leaked multiple different times by multiple different

companies.

And here's the real kicker.

Nobody's gone to jail, no CEO, no executive running these companies that routinely lose

our data.

None of them have ever faced any kind of actual consequence for this except maybe a few class

action lawsuits.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden for months now has been trying to change that.

And He seems to be fighting an uphill battle all by himself to get some kind of accountability

for these massive tech companies that continuously take our data.

Ron Wyden back in the fall, introduced legislation that would set a new standard.

It would create new rules that these tech companies would have to follow with regards

to our privacy and our data, and if they lied about it or didn't do everything properly,

they could face massive fines of up to four percent of their annual revenue, which would

result in billions upon billions of dollars for some of these companies and possibly even

jail time, jail sentences, prison for the CEOs and executives of these companies who

knowingly leak our data or sell our data and then lie to us about it.

They would go to jail under Ron Wyden's new bill that he is still pushing to this day.

And again, this is a piece of legislation that desperately needs to be enacted.

This is something that has to happen here in the United States.

The tech companies, whether knowingly or unwittingly are giving away our data and the worst part

of those who know that they're doing it right, it's one thing to just be bad at your job

and you leak a bunch of data and oops, you didn't notice that a hacker was in your system

like a Kofax for months.

Stealing people's data and social security numbers and addresses and drivers license

numbers.

Oops, we didn't notice, but it's another to be a company like Facebook that takes your

private messages and sells that data.

It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that

to people without your permission Wydens.

Bill would change that.

You could opt in to a do not share list and companies would no longer be able to sell

your data.

You might have to pay a small fee to be put on that list, but it would then protect your

data.

And if the company has lied about it in their annual reports to Congress, that would be

mandatory at this point.

Or reports to regulator, excuse me.

Um, if they lied about it, they would go to jail and they would lose a lot of their profits.

Isn't that the way this should work?

If a company lies about what they're doing to you, if they're putting your personal data

up there on the auction block without your knowledge, and then they not only lie to you

about it, but lie to regulators about it.

Shouldn't that person be in jail?

Shouldn't that person be made to be an example of what not to do?

And that's what's missing in this country right now.

It's been missing for decades.

The example of what not to do, white collar criminals are rampant on Wall Street in the

tech industry, in the oil industry, the fossil fuel industry, the chemical industry.

We have seen nothing but criminal behavior from a lot of these CEOs and shareholders

and executives, pharmaceutical companies too.

They're about the worst of the worst and the reason they continue engaging in this kind

of criminal behavior, putting out a medication that they know is going to kill people, but

also make them lots of money, dumping their toxins into a waterway, knowing they're going

to poison 40,000 people, but they don't want to spend the money to properly get rid of

it.

None of those CEOs or executives who made those decisions ever went to prison, and what

that does is it sends a message to everybody else that it'll be okay.

You can afford the fine.

You don't have to worry about jail time and everybody's going to be okay.

It except of course all those people you gave cancer too who are dying slow, horrible, painful

deaths.

They're not okay, but that's not used.

So what does it matter?

Wydens.

Bill seeks to change that.

At least for the tech industry.

There is no reason why any person on Capitol Hill should vote against this.

This is about our privacy.

This is about our data.

This is about our livelihoods and if you're one of those people who have had your data

stolen and then had the deal with the fallout of that, the phone calls to credit card companies,

getting them to cancel, change your numbers, you know, try and get your money back from

a bank after your debit card number was stolen.

I've been through that.

It is hell.

And anyone who's gone through any of that understands the same thing.

The companies that allowed this to happen, they need to see their CEO's pushed out of

their pit houses, pushed out of their mansions, pushed out of the board rooms and shoved in

the back of a police car.

Not to be seen again for the next 10 years.

For more infomation >> Republicans BEG Democrats To Not Look At Trump's Tax Returns - Duration: 3:01.

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Ivanka Trump Pleads Ignorance On Trump Tower Moscow Deal - Duration: 5:16.

Here's the sad reality about being online, if you have used Facebook, if you have tried

to get a credit score or if you've had a yahoo email account anytime within the last three

years for any of those things, then the chances that your data has either been leaked out

to unsavory characters or just straight up sold by those corporations, the chances of

that are roughly 99 percent.

If you are a US citizen and you've done any of those three, uh, three things within the

last three years, that's pretty remarkable, right?

We're almost at almost 100 percent of us have either had our data leaked or stolen.

If we're in one of those online communities, some of us, depending on how many of those

years have had our data stolen and leaked multiple different times by multiple different

companies.

And here's the real kicker.

Nobody's gone to jail, no CEO, no executive running these companies that routinely lose

our data.

None of them have ever faced any kind of actual consequence for this except maybe a few class

action lawsuits.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden for months now has been trying to change that.

And He seems to be fighting an uphill battle all by himself to get some kind of accountability

for these massive tech companies that continuously take our data.

Ron Wyden back in the fall, introduced legislation that would set a new standard.

It would create new rules that these tech companies would have to follow with regards

to our privacy and our data, and if they lied about it or didn't do everything properly,

they could face massive fines of up to four percent of their annual revenue, which would

result in billions upon billions of dollars for some of these companies and possibly even

jail time, jail sentences, prison for the CEOs and executives of these companies who

knowingly leak our data or sell our data and then lie to us about it.

They would go to jail under Ron Wyden's new bill that he is still pushing to this day.

And again, this is a piece of legislation that desperately needs to be enacted.

This is something that has to happen here in the United States.

The tech companies, whether knowingly or unwittingly are giving away our data and the worst part

of those who know that they're doing it right, it's one thing to just be bad at your job

and you leak a bunch of data and oops, you didn't notice that a hacker was in your system

like a Kofax for months.

Stealing people's data and social security numbers and addresses and drivers license

numbers.

Oops, we didn't notice, but it's another to be a company like Facebook that takes your

private messages and sells that data.

It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that

to people without your permission Wydens.

Bill would change that.

You could opt in to a do not share list and companies would no longer be able to sell

your data.

You might have to pay a small fee to be put on that list, but it would then protect your

data.

And if the company has lied about it in their annual reports to Congress, that would be

mandatory at this point.

Or reports to regulator, excuse me.

Um, if they lied about it, they would go to jail and they would lose a lot of their profits.

Isn't that the way this should work?

If a company lies about what they're doing to you, if they're putting your personal data

up there on the auction block without your knowledge, and then they not only lie to you

about it, but lie to regulators about it.

Shouldn't that person be in jail?

Shouldn't that person be made to be an example of what not to do?

And that's what's missing in this country right now.

It's been missing for decades.

The example of what not to do, white collar criminals are rampant on Wall Street in the

tech industry, in the oil industry, the fossil fuel industry, the chemical industry.

We have seen nothing but criminal behavior from a lot of these CEOs and shareholders

and executives, pharmaceutical companies too.

They're about the worst of the worst and the reason they continue engaging in this kind

of criminal behavior, putting out a medication that they know is going to kill people, but

also make them lots of money, dumping their toxins into a waterway, knowing they're going

to poison 40,000 people, but they don't want to spend the money to properly get rid of

it.

None of those CEOs or executives who made those decisions ever went to prison, and what

that does is it sends a message to everybody else that it'll be okay.

You can afford the fine.

You don't have to worry about jail time and everybody's going to be okay.

It except of course all those people you gave cancer too who are dying slow, horrible, painful

deaths.

They're not okay, but that's not used.

So what does it matter?

Wydens.

Bill seeks to change that.

At least for the tech industry.

There is no reason why any person on Capitol Hill should vote against this.

This is about our privacy.

This is about our data.

This is about our livelihoods and if you're one of those people who have had your data

stolen and then had the deal with the fallout of that, the phone calls to credit card companies,

getting them to cancel, change your numbers, you know, try and get your money back from

a bank after your debit card number was stolen.

I've been through that.

It is hell.

And anyone who's gone through any of that understands the same thing.

The companies that allowed this to happen, they need to see their CEO's pushed out of

their pit houses, pushed out of their mansions, pushed out of the board rooms and shoved in

the back of a police car.

Not to be seen again for the next 10 years.

For more infomation >> Ivanka Trump Pleads Ignorance On Trump Tower Moscow Deal - Duration: 5:16.

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Don't Trust Trump's HIV Pledge: Feb 8 Debrief - Duration: 3:32.

Trump says he wants to end the HIV epidemic by 2030, but actions speak louder than words

-- he's actually gutting programs that would stop transmissions.

A new study shows that the kids of same-sex parents do better than the kids of straight

parents in school.

Brazil is erasing queer and feminist curricula from schools, but at least one US state is

expanding access to inclusive education.

We'll have the week's top LGBTQ news and how it affects you on Weekly Debrief.

Weekly Debrief is made possible by the folks who pledge their support on Patreon.

Head over to Patreon.com/mattbaume or click the link in the description to check out the

rewards available to backers.

In the State of the Union this week, Donald Trump pledged to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

But we all know what a promise from Trump is worth, and his words are pretty hollow

considering that his administration spent the last two years dismantling the very programs

needed to end HIV.

Last year Republicans tried to cut a billion dollars from HIV programs, which experts say

would have killed hundreds of thousands of people if Congress hadn't stopped them.

Trump fired his advisors on HIV/AIDS shortly after taking office.

He wants to kick everyone with HIV out of the military.

And he's trying to kill Obamacare, which drastically expanded LGBTQ access to health

care.

Just a few months ago, a coalition of HIV nonprofits laid out a plan to end the epidemic

by 2025.

Their recommendations include stuff like safe injection sites, sex education, more access

to PrEP -- the kind of stuff that this administration has been working nonstop to undermine.

Maybe this pledge is a change of direction.

But I wouldn't count on it.

Also this week a new study shows that children raised by same-sex parents perform better

in school and are more likely to graduate than the kids of straight parents.

In part, that's because same-sex couples tend to have more financial resources when

they choose to become parents, which provides more advantages to their kids.

In Brazil, the new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro revealed plans to remove all references

to LGBTQ people from textbooks, along with references to feminism.

Brazil has thousands of schools with no water, electricity or plumbing, but getting rid of

women and gays is apparently Bolsonaro's solution.

But here in the states, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy just signed a bill requiring more

inclusive curricula.

Schools will now portray political, economic, and social contributions of people with disabilities

as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

That's thanks in large part to the work of Garden State Equality, so great job New

Jersey.

This is only the second state after California to require this kind of inclusive curriculum.

And with federal education controlled by the same kind of right-wing homophobes as in Brazil,

state legislation is probably the best way to improve queer representation.

To my knowledge, there's no coordinated national effort right now to pass similar

bills in other states or countries.

I could be wrong, but I've searched and haven't found anything.

So maybe it's time to start one.

This week's action item: Write to your elected officials, whether you're in the US or abroad,

and ask them to introduce legislation requiring LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum.

California and New Jersey are providing a model that works, so let's see if we can

replicate that success around the country and around the world.

As always let me know about stories that need covering @mattbaume on Twitter and in the

YouTube comments.

Thanks to everyone who makes Weekly Debrief possible with a monthly pledge of Patreon

-- head over to Patreon.com/mattbaume or click the link in the description to check out the

backer rewards.

And I'll debrief you next week.

For more infomation >> Don't Trust Trump's HIV Pledge: Feb 8 Debrief - Duration: 3:32.

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The Real Solution to the Border Wall Crisis | Illegal Immigration | America Uncovered - Duration: 8:52.

Trump's border wall led to a government shutdown

And could lead to another one

But is the best defense a good...

fence?

Hi, welcome to America Uncovered.

I'm Chris Chappell.

Here on America Uncovered,

we try to look at issues from multiple sides.

And most of the time,

what happens is that we discover that

it's way more complex than we first thought.

It's kind of like when you go to Costco to pick up some steaks

but then end up at checkout holding

a high-speed blender and

a five-gallon tub of frozen cream puffs

and also the realization that you've never really understood

all of the complex challenges facing America today.

Speaking of complex problems with no simple solutions,

illegal immigration.

According to a recent Economist YouGov survey,

62% of Americans think that illegal immigration

is a very serious or somewhat serious problem.

24% think it's a minor problem,

and only 7% think it's not a problem.

In recent months,

the illegal immigration debate has mostly turned into a debate

about building a wall across the US-Mexico border.

In the same survey, Americans are split pretty much down the middle

about whether they favor or oppose

a border wall to stop illegal immigration.

Well today, that changes.

Because we here at America Uncovered

have solved the border wall crisis.

The same crisis that caused the

longest partial US government shutdown ever,

and which could cause another government shutdown in like a week.

The solution to the border wall crisis is...

Call the border wall a fence.

Thanks for watching this episode of America Uncovered,

be sure to—

what's that, Shelley?

Right, I need to explain the fence thing.

Let's talk first about what the border wall currently is.

The $5.7 billion dollars that President Trump wanted

to fund the wall would be used to

"to replace 115 miles of border fence and

build an additional 100 miles of new barriers."

There's currently around 650 miles of fencing.

And almost half of that fencing is designed to only stop vehicles,

and not people.

Even with the additional 100 miles of border wall that Trump wants,

only a third of the border would have any type of barriers.

That's a far cry from the idea of a

solid concrete wall that stretches across the entire border.

And while Trump initially favored a concrete border wall,

like some of these prototypes...

in recent months, after talking to the Border Patrol,

he's changed it to a wall made of see-through steel slats.

Which sounds to me like

a fence.

Similar to this,

this wall/fence currently on the border

between San Diego California and Tijuana Mexico.

So if we're talking about building a large steel fence,

why was this so controversial that the government had to be shut down?

It's because the border wall is no longer a policy issue.

It's a symbol.

To Republicans it's a symbol of securing the border,

stopping illegal immigration, and supporting Trump.

To Democrats it's a symbol of intolerance, anti-immigration,

and, well, supporting Trump.

So Republicans chant "build the wall," and Democrats chant...

well, let's be honest,

Democrats aren't as good at coming up with catchy slogans.

But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

did call the wall "an immorality."

"Don't built the wall.

The wall is an immorality."

Yeah it doesn't work.

This article from the Cato Institute,

a libertarian think tank that is pro-legal immigration

and anti-border wall,

shows that in several polls,

the majority of Americans

supported a border wall or fence before 2015.

That includes even a slim majority of Democrats

that favored "building a security fence."

What happened in 2015?

Donald Trump.

When he began running for president,

the symbolism around the border wall changed.

President Trump may genuinely want to build a wall for border security.

But building the wall is also a campaign promise to his supporters.

And Trump wants to be seen as delivering on his promises,

and not caving to the Democrats.

Meanwhile, the Democrats just won a majority

in the House of Representatives,

and the border wall and government shutdown

are the first issues they've faced.

So they can't cave to Trump, either.

In fact, Democrats see Trump as such a huge enemy

that most Democratic politicians

can't support anything that Trump supports.

Except for maybe being tough on China.

The point is,

the government shutdown happened because politicians needed

to score political points against politicians from the other side.

That's not governance.

That's a football game.

And not the fun kind of football.

The other kind,

where it takes 35 days to score a single goal.

Just make the goal posts bigger already!

So the border wall is also a symbol of how

our system gets gridlocked when policy issues become political footballs.

Or soccer balls.

Which means that to get anywhere,

we need to desymbolize the border wall.

Which is why the solution is to call it something else.

As this Cato Institute article shows,

more people support a border fence than a border wall.

And Democrats have supported border fences before,

like in the Secure Fence Act of 2006,

which 90 Democratic members of Congress voted for,

including Senators Hillary Clinton,

Chuck Schumer, and Barack Obama.

Most of the current 650 miles of fencing at the border

was built after it was signed into law—

and mostly under Obama.

There was also a Senate vote

on a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013,

which included doubling the amount of fencing at the border.

All 54 Democratic senators voted for the bill,

but it was defeated by Senate Republicans.

Now, of course, before we build any more of the border wall/fence,

there are issues that should be considered—

like eminent domain, environmental impact,

and how effective it would be in each area.

And there would likely need to be funding

for other border security beyond just a wall.

According to lawmakers,

"The administration's border security experts

advised providing money for a mix of

additional law enforcement agents,

physical barriers and high-tech devices."

But we can't discuss those actual issues

if we're really just fighting over a political symbol.

So can Congress stop arguing about building a wall

and start talking about whether good fences make good neighbors?

Well, there are some signs that a compromise might be reached.

Democratic negotiators have backed down

from saying no money for a border wall

to saying that there might be money for

"enhanced fencing or other types of barriers."

Ok, fencing and barriers.

That's a good start.

President Trump?

"This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier—

not just a simple concrete wall."

Ok, so it's not just a wall—

it's a barrier!

Which is obviously better.

And that just goes to show,

no matter how you feel about Trump,

everyone can agree that he is great at branding.

We're talking about a man who managed to

sell everything from a board game,

to his own line of steaks.

"You'll absolutely love Trump Steaks."

Soon he'll be getting his supporters

to chant "build the barrier" while

wearing hats that say "mend America's fences again."

So what do you think about calling the border wall

a border fence or a barrier?

Let me know in the comments below.

And on our next episode,

a plan to stop future government shutdowns

by calling them government hoedowns.

No one wants to see Mitch McConnell

in his square dancing outfit.

And remember, America Uncovered

is funded mainly through support from viewers like you—

since YouTube doesn't place ads on controversial videos.

Like ones that talk about border fences.

So please visit Patreon.com/AmericaUncovered

and support our show with a dollar or more per episode—

so we can keep making great content for you.

Thanks for watching America Uncovered.

I'm Chris Chappell.

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Trump Singles Out China in State of the Union Address | China News Headlines | China Uncensored - Duration: 13:09.

President Trump's State of the Union Address

singles out Chinese theft of US jobs

as US-China trade talks continue.

That and more on this week's China news headlines.

Welcome to China Uncensored.

I'm Chris Chappell.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest China news,

and click the notification bell so you get an alert

each time we publish a new episode.

This week's China news headlines.

You've been waiting all year for it.

No, not the last Stars Wars movie.

President Trump's State of the Union address.

They hyped it up big time,

what with that whole, Nancy Pelosi blocking it

if we don't have a government thing.

Man, they know how to sell out a show.

And may I just ask, have you been enjoying

your government shutdown purge?

I know I have.

What's that Shelley?

Crime is still illegal during a government shutdown?

Yes of course I know that.

Anyway, this week we finally got

this year's State of the Union address,

and the state of the union is…great...again?

I assume.

But in the hour plus long speech,

President Trump delivered on his crowd pleasing favorite—

China.

"We are now making it clear to China

that after years of targeting our industries

and stealing our intellectual property,

the theft of American jobs and wealth

has come to an end."

And the crowd goes wild!

Although, that's still just aspirational.

The Chinese Communist Party hasn't actually

stopped stealing American jobs and wealth.

But that's what Trump hopes to get out of

the latest round of trade negotiations.

There's less than a month left for the US and China

to agree to a new trade deal.

If that fails, President Trump will levy a 25% tariff

on 200 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports.

Or, I guess, they'll just extend the deadline.

Which would be great,

since if all the US-China conflicts are suddenly solved,

I'd go out of business.

I'm not worried though,

because getting the kind of trade deal

will be tough.

"I have great respect for President Xi

and we are now working on a new trade deal with China.

But it must include real structural change

to end unfair trade practices,

reduce our chronic trade deficit,

and protect American jobs."

All of that would mean real structural changes

to the Chinese Communist Party's rule—

the kind authoritarian states don't like to make.

According to Bloomberg,

"U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

will lead a delegation to Beijing next week

to lay the groundwork for a meeting

between Trump and Xi later this month."

The last time Trump was in China,

Xi Jinping pulled out all the stops,

including giving Trump a rare tour of the Forbidden City.

And man, Trump had an unreadable poker face.

Do, do dooo, no plans to launch a trade war.

And then he launched a trade war.

We'll have more on the trade war as it develops.

Unless it ends in a few weeks.

But it's not going to.

The Chinese Communist Party has been,

let's say, encouraging wealthy

Chinese billionaires around the world

to influence politics in foreign countries.

Australia had a bad case of it—

thanks to loose campaign financing laws.

So loose, Chinese nationals like this guy,

Huang Xiangmo,

could contribute to their favorite political parties.

Over the years, Huang donated millions

to various Australian political parties.

The problem is—

he's connected to the Communist Party's

United Front Work Department,

"an arm of the Chinese Communist Party

that promotes Chinese foreign policy abroad."

But last year,

the Australian government changed campaign finance laws

to restrict foreign donations.

And just this week,

Australia canceled Huang Xiangmo' permanent residency,

and denied his citizenship request,

and effectively banned him from the country.

Of course, the shady links to the Communist Party

and generous donations played no part in the decision.

No, not at all.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald,

which first broke the story,

it was for a range of reasons,

including character grounds.

Obviously, I mean,

who wears a belt with his initial on it the buckle.

That's pretty tasteless.

Shelley!

You take that down!

Happy Lunar New Year!

Or as they call it in China, "New Year."

February 5th marked the year of the pig.

Not the capitalist pig, mind you.

More like, the animal farm pig.

Anyway, both China and Taiwan

decided to use the Lunar New Year Celebrations

as an excuse to release propaganda videos.

Now with all these beautiful shots of Taiwan,

you might think the Taiwan tourism department

made this one.

Nope!

It was the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

They juxtaposed images of PLA jets and bombers

soaring through the sky

is kind of the giveaway.

It's kind of like taking a girl out for Valentine's Day, saying,

"Babe, I got you a little something.

It's a gun!

For me.

To force you to marry me.

Which I'd like to do peacefully."

So Taiwan released this video

with tanks firing and missiles launching

saying we are ready

Which is like the girl saying, "Bring it."

I never thought I'd say it,

but, by comparison,

I have to give the Chinese PLA points for subtlety.

Though Taiwan's Premier did win

some subtlety points back in this video,

where he criticized the Chinese Communist Party's

handling of swine flu.

Why Winnie the Pooh?

It's a reference to Xi Jinping,

that Xi Jinping does not like.

Good news in a kind of...horrible news sort of way.

An Australian-led study is calling for the retraction

of 400 scientific papers because the organs

may have come from people

who didn't voluntarily give them up.

We've known for a while now that

the Chinese Communist Party kills both criminal prisoners

and prisoners of conscience for their organs.

But apparently, some in the medical community

have been a bit slow on the uptake.

Probably because they don't watch enough China Uncensored.

Anyway, the study "exposes a mass failure

of English language medical journals

to comply with international ethical standards in place

to ensure organ donors provide consent for transplantation."

This is not the first time something like this has happened.

In 2017, the prestigious medical journal Liver International,

retracted a scientific paper by Chinese surgeons.

Over four years,

Chinese surgeons examined the outcomes

of almost 600 liver transplants.

Problem is, it's basically impossible

for a single hospital to do that many liver transplants,

especially at a time when China barely had any organ donors.

But hey, to save a few lives,

you have to commit a few crimes against humanity, right?

China's Skynet is really making progress.

And no, I'm not talking about Skynet from Terminator.

Chinese authorities actually named

their mass surveillance program Skynet.

And according to Radio Free Asia,

by 2022,

there will be almost three billion surveillance cameras in China.

In other words,

there will be about two cameras for every person in China.

Smile!

Chinese hackers have...hacked...

a Norwegian software company.

"Visma is one of Europe's largest

cloud-based managed service providers,

with over 850,000 customers

and net revenue of over $1 billion."

The hackers released malware in Visma's internal system,

but the company says none of their client servers were infected.

The attacks were carried about by

a well known state-backed hackers

called APT10.

In December, the US Justice Department

charged two Chinese nationals believe

to be a part of APT10.

They were charged with being part of

hacks on 45 US companies

and many more in 11 other countries.

Very prolific.

A group of human rights... groups...

are calling on the UN

to look into the Chinese Communist Party's

persecution of the Uighur ethnic minority in Xinjiang.

Human Rights Watch,

Amnesty International,

the Geneva-based International Service for Human Rights,

and the World Uyghur Congress,

have called on the UN's Human Rights Council

to investigate the mass detention of Muslims in China.

"Human rights activists say it is

one of the dozens of political reeducation camps

where up to a million Muslims are said to

have been detained in China's northwest Xinjiang province

in recent years."

Now, appealing to the UN Human Rights Council is a good thing.

The problem is, China sits on the UN Human Rights Council...

for some reason.

But if the Chinese Communist Party

uses its position on the UN's Human rights council

to block this inquiry, well,

these human rights groups can always go over their heads

and appeal to the UN Security Council.

And I'm sure that'll put

the Chinese Communist Party in its place.

I'm just kidding,

China's on the UN Security Council too.

I'm sad now.

And finally, in a story that really stinks,

Malaysian rainforests are being threatened..

.by Chinese demand for durians.

If you don't know what a durian is,

I'm envious of your ignorance.

Durian has been called the king of fruits.

It smells like a mix of rotting garbage,

an everything bagel,

and my grandma's basement.

And yet, "Soaring demand for durians in China

is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia,

with environmentalists warning

vast amounts of jungle is being cleared

to make way for massive plantations of the spiky,

pungent fruit."

And it's looking pretty bad.

This is a durian plantation on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

If you put your nose up to the screen,

you can actually smell it.

And look,

there's a lot of great reasons to destroy our planet,

but durian is not one of them!

Do it for money,

or power,

or to eliminate pandas...

but don't do it for durian.

That's this week's China news headlines.

Before we go,

now is the time when I answer questions from you,

my loyal 50-cent army—

fans of the show who support what we do

through the crowd funding website Patreon.

Largezo asks,

"Does the PRC have universal healthcare?"

Good question!

Despite all the promises of communism,

or socialism with Chinese characteristics,

it turns out, taking care of the people

isn't one of the Communist Party's top priorities.

It's more interested in...taking care of the people.

According to the New York Times,

"The country does not have

a functioning primary care system,

the first line of defense for illness and injury.

China has one general practitioner

for every 6,666 people,

compared with the international standard

of one for every 1,500 to 2,000 people,

according to the World Health Organization."

Hospitals are understaffed,

overworked,

and doctors underpaid.

Plus, constant vaccine scandals.

It's gotten to the point where public hospitals

rely on bribery to survive.

And people are literally scalping tickets to see doctors.

Now in 2016,

Xi Jinping launched Healthy China 2030.

It's basically the first long term plan

to improve China's health care

since the communists took over in 1949.

On paper,

China has some degree of

cradle to grave healthcare coverage.

But in practice, well,

it's socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Thanks for you question.

Why am I answering questions on the show?

It's because a lot of advertisers

don't dare to work with a show

that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party.

So we rely on support from viewers like you

on the crowdfunding website Patreon.

Answering your questions on the show

is one of my ways of saying thanks.

So head over to patreon.com/chinaucnensored

to find out how you can keep China uncensored.

Thanks for watching.

Once again I'm your host Chris Chappell.

See you next time.

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Trump's Leaked Private Schedule Causes a Stir | The Daily Show - Duration: 5:17.

This weekend,

the groundhog wasn't the only adorable fur ball

that came out of hibernation.

President Trump made a rare appearance

on a non-Fox News program.

And you can tell that he was tired

because at times, he actually made sense.

Would you let your son Barron play football?

Uh, it's very... It's a very tough question,

and it's a very good question. If he wanted to, yes.

Would I steer him that way? Uh, no, I wouldn't.

-Why? -I just don't like the reports

that I see coming out having to do with football.

I mean, it's a dangerous sport.

I really think that, as far as my son...

well, I've heard NFL players saying they wouldn't let

their sons play football, so, uh, it's not totally unique.

But I would have a hard time with it.

That's right, Trump doesn't want his son to have brain damage.

Which is strange,

because usually fathers want their children

-to follow in their footsteps. -(laughter)

But that was... that was a thoughtful response

from the president.

And really different from how he usually talks about football.

Today, if you hit too hard-- right?--

they hit too hard, "15 yards! Throw him out of the game."

They had that last week. I watched for couple of minutes.

Two guys just... really beautiful tackle.

Boom! "15 yards!" The referee gets on television.

His wife is sitting at home. She's so proud of him.

They're ruining the game.

Used to see these tackles, and it was incredible to watch.

Right? Now they tackle. "Oh, head-on-head collision.

15 yard..." The whole game is all screwed up.

Football's become soft like our country has become soft.

-(cheering) -It's true.

"It's true, folks. Totally true, folks.

"And what's the deal with seat belts?

"Back in my day, you went straight through the windshield,

"into the other guy's car, and that's how you made friends.

Fun fact: That's how I met Rudy Giuliani."

(laughter)

Basically, what Trump is saying is that he's cool

with other kids playing football,

but he doesn't want his little guy hurting his brain.

Safety first. And if he had it his way,

football would be even more dangerous.

Yeah, there'd probably be coconuts getting dropped

on the players' heads, a ball that just bursts into flames

at random times, a mid-game purge.

(deep voice): For the next five minutes,

all crime is legal between the 20- and 50-yard lines.

Now, Trump didn't just make football news this weekend.

He also commented on the other violent crisis

threatening Americans: Syria.

You see, the president wants to pull out,

so that he's not stuck paying support for years.

He knows how this goes.

-(laughter) -And a lot of senators...

a lot of senators, led by Mitch McConnell,

are worried that if America pulls out of Syria,

ISIS could regain power.

But luckily, the commander in chief has that figured out.

You could, in that vacuum, see a resurgence of ISIS...

Sure, and you know what we'll do?

We'll come back if we have to. We have very fast airplanes,

we have very good cargo planes-- we can come back very quickly.

(laughter)

I love that his rationale is:

"We have very fast airplanes. We can just go back."

Like America can just back into Syria

like a mom checking on her son

to see if he's doing drugs in his room.

Just like, "Okay, ISIS, we're going now. Bye-b... Aha!"

But believe it or not, his views on football and Syria

weren't the biggest Trump news of the weekend.

No, the story everyone was talking about was this.

NEWSMAN: Axios says a White House source

leaked President Trump's private schedule

from the last three months.

It indicates he has spent about 60% of his time

in "unstructured" executive time.

Axios sources say much of that is spent

in his private residence watching TV, reading the papers

and phoning aides and other people.

In response, press secretary Sarah Sanders says

while the president spends much of his average day

in scheduled meetings, events and calls,

there is time to allow for a more creative environment.

"A more creative environment"?

That is not cool, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

You're supposed to be defending the president,

not making him sound like he spends all morning

-in a Montessori preschool. -(laughter)

Right? He spends time in "a more creative environ..."?

'Cause now I'm just picturing Trump in his briefings

like: "The duck goes..." "Quack!"

"The dog goes..." "Woof!"

-"ISIS goes..." -"Boom!"

"And The Donald goes..." "No collusion!"

(laughter)

-Now... -(applause)

now, predictably...

predictably... many people were upset at the news

that the president spends nearly two-thirds of his day

not doing anything.

They think he should be working hard in the Oval Office,

studying policy, military strategy,

you know, really tackling the nation's problems head-on.

But I'll be honest, I disagree.

Because, I mean, it's not his place...

Basically, what I'm saying is,

I'm cool with other presidents working hard,

but I don't want my little guy hurting his brain.

Safety first.

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Donald Trump's Secret Weapon: NOFAP - Duration: 4:27.

whenever someone asks my brother hey what's the biggest benefit in nofap he

usually says 180 2.5 hours does that even mean that's how many hours you save

per year when you choose not to FAP hundred hours that you can put into

anything a gaming career freelance business saving up for traveling school

boxing you name it in fact Donald Trump actually supports this claim and in a

minute from now I'm going to show you that Trump is in fact on no FAP

love him or hate him this man is a juggernaut he took a million dollar loan

and turned it into a multi-billion dollar empire people have always been

hard on him for that but you also have to understand that 98% of businesses

fail that is not something that is easy to do he dominates social scenarios with

his unbreakable frame and maneuvers through social pressure like it's

Splinter Cell you cannot break this man he is unfazed he almost always takes a

negative situation and turns it into his favor there's a reason why this guy's

president and it's not from mere luck look I'm not here to argue how he became

president I don't think you want to sit here for three hours and listen to me

talking about politics but I do want to talk about how President Trump is on

nofap for any newcomers out there no FAP is a website a resource and a lifestyle

choice that helps people conquer their problems in bed re-enable their

productivity and ultimately give them the freedom of time to build something

epic what I'm about to show you is a podcast with Howard stem and Trump there

will be a link in the description if you guys are interested in seeing the clip

yourself we do match them you have to take care of the problem so you have

when's the last time you ministered a long time ago honestly some time

previous to knowing women you know it's a lot of work and it gets you nowhere

you know I'm shocked to hear you say that no I'm not I was never big into

that world I want you all to watch Donald Trump's

no prommos you don't sit there on the computer and no he literally said

fapping is a lot of work that leads to nowhere a very simple logical and

analytical way of looking at it that means before this guy got big before he

started at his reign he stopped jerking his trumpet he stumped and I'm not

saying that's the sole reason why this guy's crushing it trust me there's a lot

of other factors but he's a businessman he understands that his time equals

money and slinging your hot dog has no ROI at least with women you can build a

relationship have children pass on your lineage you cannot do that with a screen

any sort of mindless activity like binging Netflix you know doing

all-nighters playing video games binge drinking partying every night will get

you nowhere and Trump understands this and it's no different with fapping they

are time wasters unless you're trying to build a career off partying seven times

a week or becoming a competitive csgo player you're wasting your time that's

not to say that you shouldn't have fun but you have to be conscious of where

you're placing your eggs there's a lot of baskets out there in the world and

you only have so many eggs you can place in them choose wisely so if you're still

watching this go ahead and drop a like if you found this informative and you

got some value out of it I want you to drop a comment down below on how you

plan on filling up your free time while on no FAP getting something down on

paper manifesting it makes it more real and builds the connection from your

brain to the physical world personally in 10 years I want to be in

the best physical shape possible with an automated business making money as I

sleep and spend most of my time traveling meeting my fans in person and

making unforgettable memories where do you want to be in 10 years

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Trump Admin Determined to Overthrow Venezuela's Maduro - Duration: 10:49.

It's The Real News Network I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.

A bipartisan Senate resolution supporting President Trumps policy to recognize the self-proclaimed

president of Venezuela, Juan Guiado, fell through on Wednesday because the Republicans

did not want to include a line that would prohibit the U.S. from taking military action

in Venezuela.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez were the co-authors

of the resolution.

Senator Menendez wanted to include a line in the resolution reaffirming the War Powers

Act, stating that the resolution should not be constructed as authorization for the use

of military force in Venezuela.

Senator Rubio refused and withdrew the resolution altogether.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis has now offered and expressed his support for the idea of the

Vatican mediating between the government of President Maduro and the opposition in Venezuela.

Now originally, the opposition had rejected all negotiation offers from Maduro.

Recently though, there has been some reports that Juan Guiado might accept Pope Francis'

offer.

Joining me now to discuss all of this today is Mark Weisbrot.

Mark is the Codirector of the Center for Economic Policy and Research and he joins us from Washington,

DC.

Mark, good to have you with us.

Thanks for inviting me, Sharmini All right, Mark.

Let's start with the Senate resolution on Venezuela.

What do you think this means, that the resolution has now failed, and the assertion of the War

Powers Act, which basically says that only Congress can declare war on another country?

Yes.

Well, this resolution was going to say that the sense of the Senate resolution that they

recognize they agree with the recognition.

Of Guido as the president of Venezuela.

But Rubio, who is really the point man, he's kind of leading this whole effort in the administration,

has been for quite a long time, he didn't want to have language, which is just standard

language, which restated the actual law of the United States.

There was nothing in the resolution that should be construed as supporting military intervention.

So mainly, the significance is it shows how extreme this group, Rubio, Bolton, Trump and

Elliott Abrams, how extreme they are and how they really want to keep this option, as they

say, "on the table," even though even threatening it like they do is a violation

of the UN Charter.

So I think that's important.

But the sanctions are also important.

So there's pushback in Congress against the military.

I don't think most of Congress would want–the vast majority of Congress wouldn't support

military action at this point.

But I think we shouldn't get too distracted by that because that's not the most likely

possibility.

The most likely possibility is what's actually happening.

There's very severe sanctions on the country that are killing people.

And that's been happening, as I've said before on this show, since August of 2017,

there's been this financial embargo, which has decimated the oil industry and severely

restricted the imports that pay for medicines and food.

And so, this is continuing.

And then, of course, in the last week or so it's been increased to something that's

more like a trade embargo, where you Venezuela won't be able to sell its oil to the United

States or in other countries who are allied with the U.S.

So they're trying very hard.

But I have to emphasize that the U.S. government, the Trump administration, is really bent on

overthrowing this government.

They don't want a negotiated solution.

All right, Mark.

Now, speaking of basic needs of the people of Venezuela, food and medicines and so forth,

several governments have offered aid to Venezuela.

In fact, the Colombian-Venezuelan border apparently has aid waiting to enter the country, but

Maduro Is denying it.

What do you make of that?

Well, I don't have full information on that, so I don't really know what are the circumstances

that would cause the government to deny it, or if they're just blocking it, or if there

are other things going on.

All right, Mark.

Many efforts are underway to negotiate and come to a resolution in Venezuela, a peaceful

resolution.

Pope Francis has offered to mediate, so have the governments of Mexico and Uruguay, which

are organizing a meeting in Montevideo today as we speak.

So give us a rundown on who's who and whether Juan Guiado will accept these negotiation

offers by the Vatican and Mexico and Uruguay.

Well, the Pope's offer to mediate was very important, because that's something that's

not so easily avoidable.

So far, the administration has not made any response and that's very telling.

And it's too bad we don't have more inquisitive journalists in some of the larger media, because

they should be asking the administration, "What do you think about this offer from

the Pope?"

And the opposition doesn't want to negotiate at all.

And they keep saying that.

And of course, Pence said that just yesterday or the day before, and Guiado himself has

said, that there's not a time for dialogue because they're working together.

But when Guiado was asked in an interview, just today I think it was, about the Pope's

offer, he had a somewhat more ambiguous response.

He said that he would welcome the Pope to come to Venezuela and he would welcome any

efforts by the pope.

But he didn't say anything about agreeing to the mediation.

So I'm guessing that he won't agree to it, because Rubio doesn't want it.

This shows, again, this is how important that this extremist view that you have in this

administration that really wants this extralegal, winner-take-all, mostly likely violent regime

change, and doesn't want anything that involves negotiation.

Now there is something in Uruguay today, and that's a meeting that's called the International

Contact Group.

And that includes the European Union, eight member states separately, France, Germany,

Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, and four countries from Latin

America, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Bolivia.

So that's a somewhat more mixed group and there are a number of European states who

don't like the regime change effort.

But that group is still–the Trump administration has the upper hand.

So what they're really resisting is the places where there's more neutrality.

So that would be Mexico and Uruguay and also the Pope.

But in order for the Pope to mediate, he's got to get something from the opposition side,

an agreement from them.

And that's where you have, again, the U.S. pressure trying to prevent any kind of real

mediation.

And they're going to try and prevent a contact group from doing that.

Right now they do have a very strong position in there because most of those are countries

that are completely in line with the regime change operation.

Now, Mark, parallel this Monday, Canada hosted the Lima group meeting and they passed a resolution

which Chrystia Freeland, the Foreign Minister of Canada, is calling the Ottawa declaration.

This group seems to have a lot of force, particularly with the Liberal government of Canada, spearheading

and doing the bidding for the United States there.

How effective do you think that group is and how does that group weigh against the one

that's meeting in Montevideo today?

Well, there's no distance between the government of Canada and Trump.

And the same is true for most of the Lima group as well, and it's controlled by people

who…

Well, I should say that there is one difference.

The Lima group is not in favor of the military intervention.

But again, that's not the main thing that's going on right now.

So the Lima group and the government of Canada are very much supporting the regime change

operation, and they won't be supporting negotiation in the immediate future.

And I think, as time goes on–the opposition thought the coup was going to happen immediately,

like a week ago, and that's kind of what the U.S. and its allies were counting on,

something that would be really quick, and it's not turning out that way.

And so, if the government remains in place in Venezuela for a while, there will be other

European countries realizing, and other countries perhaps in Latin America, that a negotiated

solution is necessary.

So I think that is a possible scenario going forward.

And as I mentioned, there's at least a dozen members of the house that are pushing back

not only against proposed military intervention or threatened military intervention, but also

against the coup itself and even the sanctions.

All right, Mark.

We'll leave it there for now.

I thank you so much for joining us, and looking forward to your comments next week.

Thank you.

And thank you for joining us here on The Real News Network.

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-Let's get to the news. President Trump spoke

at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning,

specifically, "Are you going to finish that?"

[ Laughter ]

That's right, President Trump attended

the National Prayer Breakfast this morning,

and he even brought Count Chocula.

[ Laughter ]

According to new research, eye contact is not needed

in order to have an enjoyable conversation.

"Yeah, we know," texted millennials.

[ Laughter ]

A motorist in the UK was arrested yesterday

after he crashed his car while swerving to avoid

hitting an octopus he claimed to have seen in the road.

Officials became suspicious

when they couldn't find any squid marks.

[ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ]

That's accurate. [ Cheering ]

You reacted accurately to that joke.

[ Applause ]

I also kind of hated it.

[ Laughter ]

HBO has released new photos

from the upcoming final season of "Game of Thrones,"

and I have to say -- yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]

Although, be careful, because I have to say,

those photos, pretty big spoilers.

[ Laughter ]

Two elderly women in Canada this week

got into a physical fight after they both wanted to sit

in the same chair during a game of Bingo.

One of them even lost an eye... 26.

[ Laughter ]

[ Scattered cheers ]

Well, I mean, on the same night as "squid marks,"

you guys are -- [ Laughter ]

You guys are a pretty lucky audience.

[ Laughter ]

Oh, this one actually counts as well.

[ Laughter ]

A company in England has begun selling

a heart-shaped sausage ahead of Valentine's Day.

It's the perfect way to tell that special someone

that you want to bang her.

[ Laughter, cheers and applause ]

Those --

[ Applause ]

[ Chuckles ] I don't know.

[ Laughter ]

Campbell's Soup recently received

official trademark rights to the word "Chunky"

for its brand of soups,

while Trump has trademarked it for his brand of suits.

[ Laughter ]

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson claimed yesterday

that he was the first choice to host this year's

Academy Awards before Kevin Hart.

Unfortunately, he also did questionable things in his past.

[ Laughter ]

Officials in Turkey recently found an ancient Bible

that is believed to be 1,200 years old.

It's so old, the first half is just called "Testament."

[ Laughter ]

That joke kills when I do it at the Catskills.

[ Laughter ]

Oh sure, Mrs. Maisel does it, it brings down the house.

[ Laughter ]

It's just called "Testament."

[ Cheers and applause ]

[ Laughs ]

[ Applause ]

Tip your waiters, tip your waitresses.

[ Laughter ]

And -- [ Laughs ]

And finally, Haagen-Dazs has started selling

alcohol-infused ice cream,

so if one of you wants ice cream,

and one of you wants alcohol, you're these two.

[ Laughter ]