e to the world as casualties do pile up we know the idea for example already doing away with the so-called knock on the roofs of the aircraft right these kind of humanitarian actions anymore they are still delivering phone calls and warnings i know to people of gaza but we are going to see major loss in this conflict to come like them both sides ruby how do we do you think that that's where a lot of the planning is today is sort of how to mitigate how to manage even how to package you know what's about to happen to the world should that be a priority of the israeli thinkers right now i'm very concerned about what's going on at the level of the israeli government at this time first of all and i think robbie will agree with me here an absolute disgrace that it takes three four days for them to negotiate whether or not to have a unity government that shows how divided we were unnecessarily so in advance of this and it's tragic that an event such as this is required to bring us together having said that i strongly advocate for us watching and learning as this operation develops because though we have prime minister net and yahoo there leading this and we have this reduced cabinet now which includes benny gantz and gaddy eisencott two former chiefs of staff these are three people who have worked together in the past on the gaza front and they have always chosen a limited incursion if an incursion at all i don't know that they will discover a new way of doing things there's one wrinkle in my theory there it has a name its name is you have gallant the current minister of defense we'll see if you have gallant is strong enough compound his fist on the table hard enough and with sufficient vigor i believe that he can i hope that he will and i hope that we will remove some of those obstacles to free movement in a battlefield i say this is a combat veteran myself i don't think it's necessary for a knock on the roof if we want to make those phone calls that's appropriate and proper we are not terrorists but beyond that after a warning comes and no warning was provided to our citizens soldiers and civilians once the warning is in action must be taken look the west bank uh everyone how critical arena is that in this moment right now where so much attention has been by the security administration last year year and a half two years arguably while the gaza strip has been mostly quiet you know where the risks what are the real as we're talking about a place that's not contained so to say like gaza not that gaza was truly contained as we learned hard but it's much more you know integrated between where the jewish communities are living there what the major risks uh there should we be heightened alert as well in west bank i think that we have to be heightened in judae and samaria on a couple of different fronts and i've operated in those areas extensively during my military career and my military service first of all i think it's very very important that we seize and take advantage of where the world is watching and what i mean by that is using misdirection to our benefit militarily right now the world has its eyes trained on the gaza strip what we do in the gaza strip will be projected throughout the world as you've just alluded to in your question having said that that's also an opportunity as the world watches the gaza strip that enables us to maneuver with greater opportunity in judae and samaria and the west bank and we must maneuver there in order to dismantle hamas cells and terrorist organizations that are there we also have to watch out for any revenge attacks undertaken by vigilantes from among our own people because that will first of all it would not be appropriate but secondly that will reduce the level of support that we have both here and internationally critically in blinkens the statement there he said that all the defensive needs of israel will be met that seems like a major statement from the secretary of state as this very open-ended massive conflict you know looming over our heads seemingly inevitable right now is is it hard to overstate the importance of that it's not difficult to overstate the importance of that it's a very very important statement and also what he didn't say now he may have said this elsewhere but he did not say that he calls for a ceasefire that line will come there will be the utterance that it's time to move towards a ceasefire and make efforts to stop the conflict that's why i implore this israeli government to move to move swiftly and incidentally a lot of people again are saying this is not the right time but i will say it prime minister netanyahu and the upper echelons of the defense establishment should fight and fight as though this is their last battle because i have a suspicion that when the death settles it will be proven to be the case that it is how does that factor in do you think in terms of the minds of the top military echelon the top political echelon who who know this who know that this is their last fight whether or not they're acting like the liking acting like it yet in public this is their last fight how does that affect or does it degrade you know the ability of of the army to function you know how is that a factor right now the sort of the weight of the failure hanging on the leaders right now that weight of the failure as you've just said that's exactly what they should be governed by they should take actions that are the very inverse of the magnitude of their failure and turn it towards a successful battlefield operation it needs to be crashing it needs to be decisive they do need to topple khamas nothing short of that is acceptable i hope that they will move towards it but yes absolutely i can tell you i'm firmly of the belief that not only of prime minister netanyahu but again of the senior defense establishment this will be their last fight so i implore them to make it count they must go home they must they must absolutely absolutely the biggest operation of military intelligence and military failure probably in the history of israel and they all have to bear responsibility for and possibly the international community as well the biggest failure the biggest failure anywhere that we've seen in the international community of intelligence the country to your point i need to jump toward the north again here to stay wrote excuse me we're a correspondent are also around the state by this being the war front of the last six days ariel nothing uh different this morning still rocket fire raiding on that town casualties inflicted you know in general beyond state road as well ariel what do you tell us about the status of all the you know the battleground that has been since saturday what do we know about how secure it is at this point and you know the recovery in that area right david so in a briefing that israel's military spokesperson daniel agari gave this morning he once again reiterated the pretty harrowing fact that there could still be terrorists walking around in southern israel today and while since saturday there have been hundreds perhaps over a thousand bodies of terrorists identified there are still pockets there are still those who have infiltrated on saturday hamas terrorists fighters and were not activated immediately or did participate in the carnage and then hid or or did not participate in their waiting for marching orders since saturday after the war basically since sunday we could say there have been 40 terrorists killed by israeli forces in southern israel and with the border fence open in more than 20 different spots gaps that still remain because the border is still very dangerous right now israel is the idea of says that it's guarding each one of those gaps with tanks with air force but the situation here is still very very dangerous and that's why you do not see people walking around the moment you approach like a 10 mile radius to the area all civilian cars turn into emergency services cars police paramedics army that's that's everyone who you see that's all you see walking around here and it's very quiet except for the booms of whether artillery shelling of gaza or interceptions of rockets launched at these border towns or the the rumble of air fighter jets that is the noise those are the sounds that we're hearing here not the sounds of children laughing and playing or families walking around just enjoying this october beautiful weather here but that that's not the case this isn't this isn't your usual october in israel it's actually the complete opposite aros arent coming to us from state road again the site of the updates this morning again a direct hit of a rocket right there where you're standing and we're bringing it into our studio for just uh the few minutes we have left before we step out uh let others take over continue the live broadcast here and uh Benjamin i think the big picture that's become clear it seems from wall to wall is that what the reality that was is gone the strategic doctrines that we stood on have crumbled underneath us uh what changes from here how do we approach the region well where did the country go from here besides defeating Hamas i think when when one thinks about our position in the region our position in the region will last only as long as we're able to demonstrate that if such horrors are visited upon our people we will destroy not deter but destroy those who bring such horrors to our shores to our homes to our families anything short of that those in the region will look on and understand that we are not ready for or willing to fight in the manner that is required it's a message to the international community that which we do there in the Gaza Strip and i very much hope that there will be a conclusive decisive ground offensive and i say this to someone who's a veteran of service on the ground here in the Israel Defensives i also want to say one thing i went and visited somebody very very dear to me who's been called to the front he's in tanks i can tell you the morale among the Miloimniqin among the reservists is high and anything that anyone can do to send equipment and food down to those soldiers he personally told me raises that morale yet further this is clear cut this is not complex this is not complicated this is black and white this is evil against the righteous and we are involved in a righteous fight i can tell you also that in our organization if people wish to do it if they visit our website the Miriam Institute we have a kitchen and an event hall that is distributing food to families civilians soldiers and we will be doing the same with equipment people can get on our website and see that but most importantly yes a message to Hamas yes a message to the international community but most importantly a message to our own civilians and citizens that such a failure will never occur again that begins with a strong offensive and i also think we need to apologize to all the settlements around Gaza that we let them for 20 years for 20 years we let them get occasional missiles run for the shelters live in fear and we're living in Tel Aviv Jerusalem somewhere north it's not part of us we did our best we have to deter but we're not going to destroy it it's a phase we really we really owe them an apology Benjamin Anthony and Robbie Berman thanks for joining us here difficult subject matter and complex issues a lot to discuss so thank you both for joining as we approach the end of my time within these two hours again the situation involving by the hour by the day kind of regarding very long campaign here a response to eliminate the threats that became so parrot it's so sharp this last week in israel still reeling from the pain of those events we appreciate you being with us here at 24 to stay with us if you want to get the real picture of what's happening around the war real is at war since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive enrolling coverage of the Hamas deadly attack on israel with reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information stay tuned with i24 news a punter electorate qr yaji se abre un breve cuestionario muy fácil de completar otra opción es ingresar en el link que aparece en la pantalla esperamos vuestras respuestas and here to tell you that new yorkers will never tolerate evil whether it's committed here in our homeland or in israel will not of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this breaking news edition i'm bonita levine coming to you live from tel aviv hamas is isis and just as isis was crushed so will hamas be crushed that's the clear message from benjamin esen yahu as he meets with antony blinken in tel aviv the u.s secretary of state telling the israeli prime minister at defense headquarters just a short while ago that the u.s is here and they're not going anywhere the death toll from the hamas killing rampage is now at more than 1300 new details on the scale of the attack emerging on thursday with the idf saying more than two to 3500 terrorists were involved in the initial brutal assault and that they erected an isis flag in at least one location around 1500 terrorists were killed in israeli territory others managed to escape the two leaders lambasting the hamas atrocities hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization the massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival the butchering of entire families the murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents the burning of people alive the beheadings the kidnappings of a young boy not only kidnapped molested hurt attacked and the sickening display of celebrating these horrors the celebration and glorification of evil the message that i bring to israel is this you may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself but as long as america exists you will never ever have to we will always be there by your side now the two are set to meet later with members of the newly established emergency unity government including defense minister yoav gallant national unity party leader benny gantz and member of parliament and former chief of staff gaddy eisencott it's day six of the war between israel and hamas rocket siren sounding in southern israel just a short while ago warning of incoming rocket fire in nativa asara ashkelon and in bechemesh near jerusalem so for more we welcome to studio lieutenant colonel in the reserves doron avital former commander in the special forces in the idf and senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae thank you both for being here i'm matched to discuss right now but jonathan i want to start with you an airstrike in syria just a short while ago what is it possibly even two airstrikes we're speaking of the international airports both in demascus and in aleppo two of the serious largest cities we know that these are airports used by iran to transport shipments to khizballah as opposed to what usually happens we're hearing some comments that the israeli authorities are taking responsibility acknowledging that this was an israeli act why so as a response to the mortars which were fired from syrian territory into israel a few days ago usually these these attacks go with no israeli responsibility everybody knows who's behind us but israel does not take responsibility allowing the other side not to respond this time of course the situation now is different israel is saying we are behind these attacks this is the israeli response to anything coming out of syria and if anything else comes comes out of syria you should expect a response we're going to find out more from the ground let's go straight to our correspondent robert swift he is in northern israel near the lebanon border and robert as we've just been discussing an airstrike potentially two in syria demascus airport out of order what updates have you got there what can you tell us what are you hearing well here on the ground on the northern border we have heard some jets throughout the day but much less than was heard yesterday during the uh the drone scare um that being said we we're not in close proximity to where those attacks took place that's further to the north west of sorry to the northeast of us and we didn't hear that but the idf have been reinforcing this area throughout the day um we've spoken to the the idf spokesperson um asking for updates on the information they didn't tell us anything but we have spoken to residents who've told us that idf tanks are moving into the area close to where we are um that would be in line with an increase in the number of troops here and robert we know as well obviously major concerns in recent days specifically about what is happening up north specifically around what he's border may be planning its strategy ahead what are you hearing now what update can you share the big question that people are asking is will he's border enter the war or will it not um the fact that it didn't enter the conflict immediately suggests that they are hedging their bets waiting to see if they if they will come this may be because if they are working in coordination with iran and with khamas they want to hold something in reserve something to use as leverage as a threat thank you so much our correspondent robert swift live from the northern border between israel and lebanon doron avital colonel in the reserves and jonathan reggae defense correspondent still in studio doron your take on what is happening right now in terms of this development in syria and the potential that israel is putting its hand up something completely different and saying we could be behind this yes sure first of all the northern border it's two loaded guns aiming at each other this is the context as uh it was described here and we should see how it unfolds syria we have to of course uh this is a constant the war that we are conducting against whatever a iranian deployment of arms or whatever is going on in syria and i think it's a good signaling i mean we shouldn't we couldn't admit we shouldn't admit but everybody knows who is behind those attacks and it means that those airfields are under our constant aim and we can always take them out of order and therefore syria iranian militia employment of armory watch out we are there sirens in the south we're talking about the syrian border we've got concerns across the lebanon border not to mention the developments of what might be happening in the coming hours or days in the gaseous strip can the idf handle all of this at once i think it can i mean you just see the the way we we galvanize our forces right now so israel went through a three front campaign in its past and i mean the idf after the initial shock and it was initial shock we have to admit is gaining its forces again organizing its plans organizing its division and it's prepared in all fronts including the west bank front which is a front that i'm all the time a little bit concerned because if some provocation would wake up there nor the samaria we had a constant war in the last year and then it can affect the other original fronts and of course it might force one of the players for example chisbala to play also invasion in operation of us in gaza would can change the landscape i mean ground incursion and so on so everything is very loaded many loaded guns in a war in the south so with these many loaded guns as you put it we know that antony blinkin is speaking to benjamin netanyahu right now we heard the message just moments ago khamas is ices and will be crushed like ices was crushed that's the message from the israeli prime minister right now how important is it that the us stand in tel aviv we've got the images on our screen right now the two men shaking hands reaffirming the security commitment given these various threats on various sites at the same time talk us through the significance of this significance is enormous i mean in the context of the whole landscape of the middle east the content the context of iran in the north supporting chisbala the context of the old initiative saudi arabia and the context of those horrendous events the fact that the us is here pledging a full support to israel it's a sign of it gives us the confidence of course we don't expect expect boots on the ground the idea can handle it but it's also a deterrence a very friendly tennis to chisbala lebanon as it is it's a shaky country and i don't think lebanon or lebanese that are not chisbala wants to engage himself in such a terrible warfare i think what america wants to say we want to de-escalate the situation but help israel crash from us completely that's the context jonathan reggae have you've covered this region for a very long time when was the last time you had an ices flag had been pinned to the ground on israeli territory how shocked were you to hear that new detail emerging this morning no it wasn't a shock simply because the the everyone is now saying hamas as ices for for the past five days six days okay but but the ideologies let's remember these are branches of the islamic brotherhood so it's not it's it's not that shocking that they're so close therefore the the the ideology and the brutality seen seen on on on both these these terrible nazi-style organizations i mean we should not be surprised these these are the they're the same and then yes one of the one of the hamas terrorists at a an ices flag that by itself i don't see any surprise at all i mean you you you can see many many of these nukhba fighters uh nukhba terrorists from from hamas they actually some of them even perhaps fight the fort along with a isis in egypt for example they cross to sinai through tunnels at the time and and fought along ices in egypt crossed back to to gaza the fact that they were so close and they they carry each other's flags that by itself i don't think should be very surprising we're going to discuss this further in just a short while but first i want to go to our middle east correspondent arielle usaran he joins us from starot in southern israel and arielle a direct hit in starot earlier on what details are confirmed what can you tell us right benita direct impact here two hours ago but as we speak there's a five minutes ago there was a another barrage of rockets towards the border community of nativa sarah now there is no official word of any injuries there but i'm already seeing that al arabia the saudi newspaper is reporting that the that was not a rocket but it was a anti-tank guided missile so the once we have additional information we will which if that is indeed correct that is a big change from the current wave of rockets that have been launched here all throughout the morning and throughout the day and also pretty much non-stop since saturday morning here where i'm standing right now in starot they suffered a direct impact one of multiple direct impacts that occurred in that barrage of rockets there were five people injured taken to hospital two in critical condition two in severe condition one of the one of the critical conditions was a 20-year-old woman who was right here she got out of her car and as you can see in this wall behind me that suffered the shrapnel from the rocket the direct impact she went between the car and this wall and unfortunately she was critically injured she's in she's in the hospital and we're waiting for an update as for her situation now this comes as the mayor of starot alone davidie has since the morning been urging the government to evacuate the remaining population here the locals that have been living in a the most terrific of war zones ever since saturday morning saying that about 35 to 40 percent of the locals have remained here we're talking about a town of 27 000 people and he's urging the government to evacuate them immediately let's take a listen to what he said earlier from right here at this direct impact site this place is not safe for anyone besides the emergency services we need everyone evacuated from the city when the war's over after we've won we'll continue to build and develop our lovely city together with our heroic residents and we're hearing that the idf chief of staff is likely to deliver his first direct message very shortly if and when that does happen we will bring it to you what are the residents there who are not yet evacuated the residents who are choosing to stay rl saying what is their thinking their strategy why are they not wanting to get out of their given what we're hearing about possible moves by israel in the Gaza Strip soon the line was disconnected so uh i can't i can't hear the question if you're talking to me i heard the beginning of the question but i unfortunately i can't hear you middle east correspondent aril osaran we will be coming back to him when we have a better connection for now live from storot thank you so much aril osaran for that update back in studio our panelists here and i know you want to weigh in specifically to ron about what we're discussing ices a flag a message i think the murderous brutality is ices and of course the extreme islamic ideology but we should be very careful and not decapitate of the out of the palestinian context or the iranian context don't forget that iran was an enemy of ices so it should be very clear that there's a different geometry to the forces and as we go to war we have to understand exactly what kind of organization we are facing same murderous brutality same islamic ideology extreme islamic ideology associated with muslim brotherhood in egypt in other places but a different animal and we have to treat it and i understand it when we go to war exactly what kind of organization we are facing help us understand what type of an organization as you termed it how it deals specifically with people who are kidnapped and being held hostage as we speak in gaza i think of course we are facing a terrible dilemma right now and i spoke with officers that are friends ex-friends and ex-deputies that are right now dealing with this issue the hostage issue but they also have a dilemma in their hands they are also international citizens there and they have to work it out also i don't think they would it's part of their tactic or strategy in the past was all the time the idea of trading prisoners there are various prisoners of their prisoners in our jails you remember that sinwar himself the leader is actually was a prisoner of war a prisoner in our in our jails so i think they would like to get benefits out of this hostage taking it's not a thing their intention is to get to use this as a bulging bulging card in some kind of exchange and we have to wait the context of the war that we are waging with them with how to resolve this hosted issue a real dilemma also for a dilemma for us for our commanders and we know it would be interesting by the way to hear the chief of staff herds talking in the press conference soon how does he refer to this dilemma it certainly is a dilemma and we heard Anthony Blinken saying earlier there are 25 americans abducted so how does that pressure out of washington bear on the developments right now obviously some major meetings happening as we are speaking right now but the fact that the us is here in Tel Aviv saying we've got 25 people being held by Hamas stroke isis in Gaza how does it impact the way things will unfold jonathan i don't know how much leverage to be honest they they have on the things on regarding the the the hostages in Gaza it's not as if Hamas is in love with the americans and they will say okay the americans will let them go i think the american presence is is is more intended for other other factors beat his bala beat iran saying if another front is open against israel that front israel will find assistance not saying boots on the ground i'm not saying anything the americans will fight in but the americans are here with two or three aircraft carriers the americans are watching the other fronts regarding the the hostages in in in Gaza beat the american american citizens and other citizens that i'm not sure i'm not sure how much leverage the united states may have on this regarding regarding the hostages as far as Hamas is concerned they're they're israelis all of them stay with us gentlemen we've got lots more to unpack right now i want to go to our correspondent Hamdas al-Hochis in Tel Aviv Hamda what update can you share this hour well look there were rocket sirens in Tel Aviv yesterday and the day before as Hamas is vowing revenge against the israelis for killing civilians inside of the Gaza Strip here in about an hour there's going to be a press conference for families of people who are still missing they have not been notified by the israeli authorities whether their loved ones are being held as prisoners by Hamas or if they are dead in marx and i have with me here may dove the sister of karen who is still missing thank you so much for being with us i imagine it's it's such a hard time for you have you heard anything from the government no one no one's talk to us if karen was at a french citizen we didn't even been here um what are you looking for from the prime minister from the army we understand you're you're looking for answers i just want to find my sister i i don't know what to expect for but even even though she's hostage even though she's she's killed i i don't know but i wanted to come back home that's it and then do you have a a message maybe there are so many families going through the same thing you're going through there's a a feeling of unity among the israeli population now what do you want to say to them you use used to the attack to the rockets but this they were murdered they were put telly kids i can i can't imagine it's just the holocaust so the holocaust is here again it's 1945 all over again just without it there i just wanted to come back home that's it mendav thank you so much these are just this is just one of the many stories we've been hearing from israeli families whose loved ones are either captive inside the gaza strip or they're dead and being identified in morgues but the the situation here is very difficult the israeli military informing um around 90 families that their loved ones have been captive in gaza others are still lining up in morgues um to try and identify their loved ones with with dna and you just heard from this young woman here she believes that if her sister wasn't a dual french citizen without the help of the french government that it really wouldn't even be a story she wouldn't have the opportunity to come and be part of a press conference so these stories are continuing as the israeli authorities and the military are really trying to help identify these people help identify perhaps where they are but the main overarching theme from all of the israeli public who do have loved ones that are either dead or missing is that they want to hear more from the government bonita and agonizing wait wondering if your relatives are alive wondering where they are it really is very painful to even hear people talking and waiting and hoping for some kind of news and some kind of update khamda we know that you're in tel aviv we know the streets of tel aviv jaffron surrounds have been particularly quiet understandably in recent days give us your sense of what you'll feel for the mood outside is like the atmosphere the fact that it is so quiet what was your take in recent hours in tel aviv well look tel aviv has been extremely eerie since last saturday with schools closed a lot of workplaces closed a lot of workers working from home still but there are still people surprisingly at the beach while the streets a lot of them are more empty there are still people out and about because it's not really as dangerous it's not as heavy as a target like these southern communities we do know that hamas does have weapons in their arsenal that can reach places like tel aviv and actually cause destruction there were several direct hits throughout the city a lot of fears among the population that there could be deaths because of the the imminent rocket fire that could happen again on tel aviv as hamas continuously threatens to send its missiles toward the city correspond on khamdas al hut live from tel aviv thank you so much we will be getting more details from that press conference later on in the coming hours thank you khamda still in the studio colonel and the reserves doron abitao and our jonathan reggae developments in the gaza strip right now we know jonathan that the idf is continuing with its airstrikes targeting hamas sites precision targets what more can you tell us about what is unfolding i'm i'm i'm sorry but i i'm i'm far from impressed from all this because this is this is the same that what we're seeing now in gaza with the stronger intensity yes it's the same as we've seen in the past we've heard from from defense minister yesterday that you have gallant in in in the press conference saying we will wipe hamas of the face of the earth this is not how hamas will be wiped off from the face of the earth why the strategy then doron what is your take i think you have to understand that this is a real setback and you don't rush into offensive once you hit so hard you really have to really regain your forces organize your plan organize your commanders many colonels the high-ranked colonels died there were division commanders i have just talked with one of those deputies they really have to work out a war plan and then execute it and it's better to hold your forces when you are prepared and then do your move because ground incursion there's no no going bank going back when you when you when you enter so we have to really think what's the strategy i think that's what the idea is thinking right now and i think we might hear from herzi how does he think about that and of course we have to understand this is a long whole war and every hamas leader whoever wherever he would be will be found and will be executed in any other way i mean wherever it would be in any like leaders in wherever they would be the mosad would get them i mean this is a long whole war they started a campaign will finish it the question is when how and what time they're not all in the Gaza strip though of course the two of the main leaders they say are in katar katar lebanon whatever will be sharing on as they're watching videos of the atrocities unfolding here yeah is it a realistic goal to completely eradicate hamas is it doable to take gaza is doable the context is what would you do afterwards how do you handle commanding gaza i want to remind all our audience that are real sure on our great one of the greatest generals as well ever had was actually the the same general that decided to disengage from gaza from good reason from good reason so the question what does it mean how can we dismantle hamas without taking the whole of the gaza strip those are the questions we'll have to answer shortly and of course we'll have to reflect what would be the consequence of such a move in terms of the northern front or the west bank by the way to your question about ISIS we have to remind the audience that in the Sinai Peninsula there were ISIS groups that we had problems with in the past we actually helped the Egyptian army to handle them so those ISIS groups have not sure what's their strength right now those Bedouin tribes in the Sinai they're also players that we have to have a look at her at sihal evi the IDF chief of staff is about to speak the idea is ready in a very strong force in all of the arenas for all of the scenarios don't try us thank you very much short and to the point jonathan reggae if break it down very briefly again and and and just as dorona vitale here said we were waiting for something to to know more i don't feel as if we know more we know that the army is ready on all fronts we know that the army is is extensively prepared in the northern arena as well and but did we learn anything oh no dorona vitale jonathan reggae thank you so much we need to leave it there but our coverage will continue very soon this is breaking news edition i'm venice levine live and tell aviv stay tuned don't go anywhere real is at war since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of 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Older person born. Are you present? Yes, I am. All right borns here Donahue Feldy Acley Phillips Decker Sorenson present Svalio Wolf Mitchell here. All right. Everyone is present. Would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible Sorry for that technical difficulty folks We'll jump right into items for discussion 2.1 resolution number 3420-21 Older person Sorenson and Wolf adopting the addition of the 2021 action items and critical measures for the city of Sheboygan 2017 to 2021 strategic plan. I'll turn it over to city administrator Daryl Hofflin number 19th 2016 I've of those faces that are currently serving as elected officials on the council Three still remain active as elected officials This this plan was developed using a SWAT analysis as early as February 2015 by the management team The council reviewed a mission vision and core values in April of that same year a Community survey was first held June and July of 2016 as a foundation and ultimately a strategic a strategic plan workshop occurred in August of 2016 Your staff has put together a fairly comprehensive set of goals For citizen engagement as part of the five-year update to this plan. So it will be a 2022 to 2020 Is it seven seven? 2026 So you will begin working on that in the next few months Included in your packet attached to the resolution Again, are those six focus areas that are part of the current strategic plan? I've listed the specific action items Again, this is the fifth year of the plan in the past you've approved two-year increments So 2017 to 2018 and then you updated it 2019 and 2020 which we're currently working on those action items as well as critical critical measures So what's before you is that last and fifth year for action items and critical measures To assist you in reviewing whether they're part of an ongoing and previously approved action items or critical measures I've provided you with a column Identifying ongoing and for those items that are new for the first time in 2021 I've identified it as a new item in some cases the items are slightly changed as far as measurement As an example on the first page quality of life a new item is a meeting the goal of 8,000 hours of firefighter training again a New way of formally keeping track of those training hours As I mentioned there are six different focus areas in addition to quality of life Infrastructure public facilities is number two economic development number three neighborhood revitalization for governing a fiscal management five and finally the last focus area is communication These were developed by your management team Utilizing again a lot of the existing action items critical measures But also incorporating the 2020 community survey You are approved 2021 to 2026 capital improvement program items And so these items are presented to you for for further discussion review and ultimately the request is that you Support approval and forward these on to the Common Council for their consideration and final action Are there any questions for Darrell? Is this open up double on Do you have anything else on Jim in the background? Oh, okay, well Jim is gone We'll give it a second from the pop back on In the meantime while Jim is waiting to come back. Is there any other elders that are wishing to speak? I have any questions for Joe regarding the plan Mike. Where you sitting at? Okay? Thank you all the person sorenson This last Saturday we had a very good meeting meeting with some of the protesters for the Black Lives Matter group And one of the things that I promised to try to do is develop a platform within our strategic plan to address diversity in our community and And try to work towards goals and action plans that would accomplish those goals So I'm hoping that the council Would include something on diversity either and one of the current units are to develop a whole separate section on diversity and And then we can fill those in as we develop a plan and work with these individuals in our community Does anyone have any follow-up questions regarding the statement the mayor just made? Ryan, Barb told me. Barb go for it. I Don't know if this is usual or not, but Anything that that's a new item on here Is there any time that we see what the cost or if there is a cost any of those would be Daryl, do you want to take a swing at that one? That's a that's a great question. That's something we've never quantified in the past so it's a Again, it's an important question for consideration Most of the items on here that are capital in nature You have it as an older person Reviewed in your respective committees and ultimately as a council member You've approved and identified as part of that approval a revenue source to fund those items I'm just going down the list briefly I Don't see any item here that I in that I Can amat that I project will cause additional cost Over and above what's been included in the five-year capital improvement plan I know I earlier mentioned as an example the additional training hours Or of 8,000 for firefighters and 2,100 for EMS training Chief I'll ask you Are those hours consistent with our current level of funding in your budgets? Or will additional Monies need to be allocated in order to accomplish these critical measure goals Typically, they're all accounted for in our annual salary and account budget however like tonight we we did have a nighttime training with some off-duty because it was specialized training so that would be above and beyond but It all dependent. It's all dependent on how many members actually participate So this was one of those confined space kind of drills We have dive drills that may cost overtime even though they it does count towards the training hours themselves Those are those rare occasions that we do have to because they're off-duty have to pay overtime for that Dad you have a follow-up on that or do you have a separate separate question? Is it on this or is it a separate question? In this exact area, okay go for a time Thank you chair Darrell I guess you know Since since older Felde brought up a really good point and it probably would be good for for the future To to allow for us to understand what the cost is for these different line items and in our strategic plan Whether it's ongoing maybe it's accumulative or what we anticipate the budget to be but if I look at number 24 South South Lakeshore interceptor sewer rehabilitation project. I believe that that one actually May be a little bit on the higher side of the budget if you could kind of bring review with that For those of you that we're able to attend the meetings of the capital improvement Commission At the first meeting of the two meetings As part of their review of the updated five-year cap improvement Director of Public Works David Bevel did identify That the numbers that were presented to his respective committee the Public Works Committee During that top during the time between that Public Works Committee in the first meeting the cap improvement Commission He had received and updated from our consultants associated with this project originally this interceptor relining project which Which provides for the sanitary sewer flow for almost half of the community Which is at the bottom of the bluff Basically from King Park all the way to the wastewater treatment plant had gone from eight million little over eight million dollars to a little over 13 million This is a user fee Funded project however as residents in our community or even if you provide if you receive service from the city and you're in a neighboring township or Incorporated community, which is the town of Sheboygan town of Wilson Village of Kohler village our city of Sheboygan Falls as an example as examples Those costs will be shared across all users But yes, the cap improvement commission did receive that higher number and ultimately recommended Inclusion of that project with no delay. It's planned for 2021 And the new as a common council ultimately did approve that project with a higher dollar amount Does that answer your question? Other Wolf yes, Darrell. I just wanted to bring it up as one of the larger changes within the list Thank you My my recollection is over the next five the five-year cap improvement plan for non water utility projects It is the number one Project as far as cost Thanks, Tom. I Just kind of want to go back to to Mayor Mike's comment to disregarding diversity in the strategic plan I think with a lot that's been going on across our nation in the world just on the discussion of Black Lives Matter and Just about racial equality Ryan. Could you speak up? Sorry? I'm not speaking at the mic I think having diversity included in the strategic plan Is vital? I do think an appropriate it should have its own line item I do think that this I mean, I don't know at all the The strategic plan point should be under that that item off the top of my head right now But I would ask city staff to kind of explore what new and creative options that we can do looking at what other cities are Looking at different hiring practices engagement techniques Just a few different things off the top of my head about how we can incorporate diversity to strategic plan I Know that you know should boy gun our community is changing I think it's important that we bring those voices To the table if I could respond. Yeah, Darrell Many of you did participate As Alders along with the management team on an initial survey Asking you to identify if the current focus areas sufficiently meet Your hopes and dreams for the next five years as part of a strategic plan as part of that process You were also asked if there were any items critical items that were not part of the current strategic plan Instead of will you several of you did mention? This topic that you mentioned Alder Sorenson, so I know that staff as they Begin the process of gearing up for that 2022 through 2026 that that will be most likely a separate and separately identified with his own Action items and and its own critical measures. I guess the question before you tonight is whether as part of the strategic plan itself Whether you want the 2021 Action items and critical measures to already include Specific items associated with it Chad. Did you have something on this topic? I was going to say the same thing in that Darrell said Ryan Mary Lynn Ryan Mary Lynn Whether or not it's part of the strategic plan I've been working with a group for a number of months on these issues And I think the one lesson that we are beginning to learn in these very tumultuous times is that we as people of white color Are probably not in the best position to be making the plans making the decisions. I Think it's very important that we listen very very very carefully To communities of color that are speaking up and And working within that contact Nothing will in my opinion Cycle or in some fashion interfere with the power of Bringing equality and justice into the city then we as As city elders and staff coming up with the strategic plan So I'm looking forward to hearing from communities of color to see what they Will bring to us and it may be a strategic plan It may just be a box to check off I think it's going to be more complex and will require so much work from all of us Both intellectual and emotional just to get our arms around Life in this community and and and life Across the world frankly for people of color. So I just wanted to put that in I don't Don't think tonight we need to vote. Oh, yeah, we're gonna do diversity. We're gonna do Inclusion we're gonna do equity. I think it is an organic process that we need to very carefully and respectfully listen to And and see where it leads it Thank you older person Don Hume Any follow-up or any other questions for Darrell? Ryan Alderman born and back. All right, Jim. Good to have you back go for it First of all, I want to follow up on what Mary Lynn said. I would encourage I would encourage those communities To forward their names to Mayor van der steen for appointments to our boards and commissions in the city I would also encourage people from those communities to get involved and run for Alder person Next year. We'll have five five seats. That's a good way Good way for those people to get to get involved in city But definitely forward their names to the mayor to get on some of our boards and commissions I think that would be a wonderful step now as far as the recommendations for For for 2021. I noticed number 85 was to execute a succession plan for the police department And my I had a question and I talked to the fire chief this morning about developing a succession plan for the fire department and The chief informed me that he's already doing that and is going to be working with our HR director and I also talked to the president of the fire and police commission this morning Bob LaTrie And Bob is also very interested in that and and I guess that's part of the fire and commission Some something that the fire and police commission has on their agenda also So I'm wondering if nothing else but a placeholder to add in there to work on for to continue to work On for 2021 so that it has visibility would be to Executed succession plan for the fire department. Maybe the chief could comment on that, please Alder born. Thank you. Yeah, we are definitely working towards that it it was Somewhat in play prior to my arrival and working with the assistant chiefs and HR director We're continuing to move forward in a more detailed and planned away. So certainly we could put it on the Strategic plan Ryan would we have to make a motion to get that on to get that on as another item for 2021? Or can staff handle that or would you need a motion? I'm confident staff can handle that That additional item. Yes, we will add and fire to that Already recommended Action item for 2021. Awesome. Thanks, Darrell Thank you Other questions regarding the strategic plan questions for Darrell or other city staff any other questions Go on last. All right. Sounds good. Thanks Darrell. Thank you I guess We'll make a motion to refer this Back to the city council with recommendations Second boring. I need a motion first and then a second There's been a motion and then a second by Jim any further discussion on this Seeing none all those in favor of accepting this and referring it back to the city council, please state aye Anyone opposed? Aye chair votes aye All right seeing that we've exhausted the agenda. Is there such motion to adjourn? There's been a motion and second by all the person Savalio and Wolf all those in favor of adjourning, please state aye Anyone opposed cheer votes aye we are adjourned at quarter after seven. Thank you everybody


What's up everybody I'm TheMangooz, you are awesome and I'm playing some Richter support today with Devilspawn, our guest host from last episode of For The Minions. This game lasted 35 minutes and in that time I racked up 32 assists and 3 kills so this one is pretty action packed.  I haven't set for instacast in fault so it just immediately fires out and you couldn't do that in pred.  Let's go over Richter's abilities real quick. Fault gave him a passive that applies a stacking debuff on ability hit to heroes that allows Richter and anyone around him to deal extra energy damage on basic attack. The amount of damage is adjusted according to the target's missing health and Richter's bonus health. This passive makes Richter an absolute monster in the off lane or jungle and it can give your ADC a damage boost if used well as a support.   Like the video if you enjoy it, sub for more 3rd person mobile content, but for now, let's face check with a fat guy. I've chosen a green and a white aspect today.  So the aspects I took are Titan, which gives me health regen whenever I get damaged in lane, just helps me stay in lane for a wee bit longer, and then it gives you adaptive power based on how much health you have, your bonus health. Adaptive power just means if you have more physical power, you get more physical power. If you have more energy power, you get more energy power.  For my starting support item, I picked Bangal. You see down in the bottom right-hand corner, it looks like a little bracelet. What that does, it lets me put down a ward for one thing, but the other thing it does is you can execute minions when they're at a certain health threshold, and a tip when using Bangal, don't use it on ranged minions. Try to always use it on the siege minion, the cannon minion if you can, and if you can't use it on the cannon minion, use it on melee minions. They're worth more gold, and that gives you more gold as a support, and it's still sharing that gold with your ADC, so go for the highest gold that you can. Try and get the siege minions in with your Bangal hits if you can. This also gives you and your ADC a heal whenever you get the execute on the minion, which is pretty nice. You have to have a special ward to destroy their wards. I like checking my own gameplay after a match to identify what I did well and what needs improvement. What I did well this match was, I waited patiently for the best opportunities to use my ultimate. I had pretty good timing with Blessing of the Divine, that's an item that gives shielding to the entire team, and just using my big fat body to distract people and soak up damage. I think I did a pretty good job with that. Things I need to improve, hitting my hooks. I think I can solve this by switching from instant cast to smart cast, I'm not real sure, I probably just need to be better. Leaving my ADC, I need to have more faith in my frontline to initiate fights and focus more on just protecting the carry as a support. And itemization, this was a perfect game for a ring of rejuvenation, it's an item that heals you when you receive hard CC. I did start to build it, but I probably should have brushed the item with the amount of crazy CC the enemy team had. This steal was really fast with his shield walls all throughout this game. And it was very effective, I don't think I've ever seen a steal use that shield wall as effectively as this steal does in this game. Again steal did exactly what he should do, a lot of steals would have gone after me right there after I had hooked the Murdoch, but he immediately jumped in Sparrow's face, preventing her from getting the kill on the Murdoch. This steal was really good, really good. Alright I'm out of stacks, I do not have mana for mine yet, I've got mana for mine, if they walk up too far I'm just going to walk straight up to him and hold. Okay, we got countless coming in, I'm going in. Here comes Grox, he's all buffed up, he left, but she's silenced. Yeah no worries, there we go, that's what I was looking for. Looks like you died, but uh... That's steal ult for the pavers, not the steal ult, the steal wall.  And we got the raster. Ah, nothing I know of, there it goes.  This Murdoch, you know, he wasn't hitting like any shots. I should have died way sooner.  Count us, count us, count us.   It is. It is indeed. Big steal ult, we're coming in with bot d. Fuck, just get to him. Jesus Christ. That was a lot of like... What do you think your steal ulted, the steal passed me, right?  Does gold buff do exactly what it did in bear count? What's that? Does gold buff do exactly what it did in bear count? Oh no, no, no, it just gives you life steal. It used to give you gold, like increased gold gain, but it was just, it was causing too much snowball. You were getting gains where there was just constantly people in right lane. Oh yeah, uh-huh. Sure, that doesn't happen, that doesn't happen anymore. No.  Yeah, there's nothing I can do right there. The full five man rotate on this right lane? Deal, how are you?  Accountants coming after me for some reason. An enemy has been slayed. There's one thing about Sparrow, Sparrow has no escape. Sparrow's really strong. God damn, I'm strong. Got 16 assists over there. Not for nothing, but this guy's got 16 assists. Don't mind me, grocks, I'm just... You got grocks coming.  Yeah, I got countants coming. Yeah, I'm fucked. Literally just, I can't do anything against this countant. That is, what, what's countants at?  Does it just give you points or does it give you a... I think it just gives you favor.   Well my pull hit, made the sound and everything it didn't pull. That's one of the drawbacks of playing on E.U. God damn it. All right, we've got countants coming in behind us, so we need to leave. She went right by me.  This is the wrong target, but all right, I respect it.  This countants wants to flirt with a disaster over here. There's so much CC I had to, like, couldn't hit your shots. Like he literally was just moving non-stop. Jesus. Okay, we got, yeah, we got time to end this. Nice. Special shout out to channel members Fullish, Bloodhunter, Jelly Knees, Meow, Mix 4 Men, Stunt, Farith, and Raven.


Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien coming alive from T F N N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday January 2nd kicking off 2020. We're starting right where 2019 ended with a positive note from the markets with the Dow reaching a new record today right now up a hundred and set hundred ninety seven points trading twenty eight thousand seven thirty five S and P's up twelve trading thirty two forty three in the Nasdaq up seventy points trading at nine thousand forty two gold contract up almost five dollars at fifteen twenty seven we've got oil down sixty and pennies at sixty ninety notes and bonds we're getting some lower yield and higher price the ten year up six ticks at one twenty eight nineteen the thirty year up twenty ticks at one fifty six seventeen and some strength in the dollar index up three hundred and ninety one ticks at ninety six eight thirty six we'll start things off let's jump over the charts we'll start it off with the headline of the day record as Wall Street's Monster 2019 rally extends into the new year a Dow record to start things off and there's your Dow thirty twenty eight thousand six ninety one we reach a high right after the opening bell of twenty eight thousand seven looking at the March futures contract S&P 500 currently trade excuse me at thirty two forty two we're as high this morning as thirty two fifty one seventy nine that's about two S&P points from an all-time high in the S&P that high being thirty two fifty four Nasdaq 100 trading at eighty eight forty two there's your crude oil market now under sixty one dollars the price accrued trading sixty dollars and eighty six cents gold contract quite a day for gold as well continuing the recent gains we've seen in the metal fifteen thirty three eighty eight the high at ten thirty just off that level at fifteen twenty seven there's your Euro one eleven sixty eight as we've seen dollar strength and Euro weakness I mentioned the note and bond market and we'll pull things off as I get up here let's get a chart of the ten year yield quite a volatile day to start things off in twenty twenty especially in the bond market checking out a chart of the yield there you go early this morning we make it up to a high of one point nine four four percent and just like that we trade down to a low of one point eight four nine percent you're talking about a tenth or a percent in the tenure in a matter of four five hours we've got a bit of a bounce now resting one point eight eight percent yield on that ten year stay tuned folks we've got a man Steve Rhodes coming up live right now with the trader's edge then we have Teddy Kegstad from four x dash trading dash unlock dot com he's going to be filling in for Dave at two o'clock talking four x and Tom O'Brien live from three till four stay tuned folks we'll be right back


On Friday, March 22, 2019, Will Water Day will be celebrated. This will be the 26th annual event since it was officially launched back in 1993. Although water plays an important role in our daily lives, the celebration is one to cause us to reflect and recognize the many issues that affect us locally and also on a global scale. It is also a day for us to realize the important role we can play to help protect and preserve our water resources. Each year, there is a specific theme. This year's theme is leaving no one behind. This is in the context that billions of people do not have access to safe water for households, schools, farms, factories, etc. The situation is more acute for groups such as women, children, refugees, and indigenous people. The United Nations Assembly has recognized the human rights to water and sanitation and acknowledges that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of human rights. In St. Lucia, significant strides have been made to supply portable water to the population. This action has been implemented through augmenting water availability and implementing measures to protect water quality. Nevertheless, challenges remain and we are working diligently to eliminate the situation. Within my ministry, the Water Resource Management Agency, WRMA, the Forestry Department, and Water Syriac Company in Gowasco continue to work towards further protecting and preserving our water resources. The need to quantify and evaluate the vulnerability of our water resources has become increasingly important, particularly when taking climate change into account. The increased intensity of storm events and the limitation in sources of fresh water make our country highly vulnerable. The unavailability of fresh water is a limiting factor for economic and social development in our island states like St. Lucia. Despite this and moving forward, we are incorporating climate change adaptive measures to ensure that no one is left behind in that regard. We have seen the implementation of some major projects such as the John Compton Dam Real Victation, the Denver North Water Supply Redevelopment, the Viewfort Water Supply Redevelopment Project, and water improvement projects in many communities. For example, Babono, Miku South, Bhutan, Delse, and Anselary. The implementation of these projects are in keeping with our strategy to ensure that an ever-increasing percentage of our population will enjoy access to safe and consistent supply of water. It is important that we all play our part by appreciating the value of water, practicing water conservation measures, and protecting the environment. In closing, I would like to express my appreciation to the many organizations who have assisted in achieving this film to have a productive, wool water day. I thank you.


If we're here on a given Friday afternoon, Tim Epicella and me, Cynthia is on assignment on the mainland. How do you like that? I like that. And this is Trump Week, in case you were wondering. And before we tell you the title of the show, which will resonate, I just want to tell you something we discussed a minute ago, is what is the connected dots thing, and we can hang our ornaments off this. He's ignoring Congress. He's marginalizing Congress. He's making believe that Congress doesn't exist. They subpoena his people, tells him not to show up. They ask for documents. He says he's not going to do it. Whatever they ask for, he's not going to do it. And he says everything they ask for is politicized, of course, all his answers are politicized, too. So he's insinuated politicization into everything. At the same time, him and McConnell have neutralized the Senate. And that's really frightening. So what you have is one branch of government is like, you know, neutralized. And then you think about all the judges he's appointed, including the judge who ruled last week that Congress did not have standing to question his emergency declaration of the border issue. That judge was a Republican appointed by Trump. He's stocked the courts. They said that FDR stocked the courts, too, back in the 30s, but there's nothing compared to what Trump has done, hundreds of judges. And still today, you don't see it in the newspaper, but he's still appointing hundreds of federal judges who are conservative right-wing judges every day. He's appointing you on the basis of loyalty to him, like Kavanaugh, loyalty to him. Result is that he's essentially neutralized in the judiciary, too. So you have three branches of government in the Constitution. This guy has disqualified two of the branches, or is in the process of disqualifying them. Leaving one branch of government, him. He's running the country. Clearly, that's what he wants to do. That's really unconstitutional and profoundly damaging to our republic. Okay, now let's get to the show. Hi, Tim. Good morning, Jay. That's a neutral. Yeah.  So we're talking about, today we're talking about something called, yes, I would take help from a foreign nation. And the tagline is, doesn't that show what he was doing before? Of course it does. Absolutely. Why don't you tell us what happened this week? Well, what happened this week, he was in an interview with ABC with George Stephanopoulos. And the conversation was taking place in the Oval Office. We talked about a backdrop. And the question just basically came up, what about information you receive from foreign countries and isn't that something you should do something about? And he was about to blatant as blatant get. He said, nah, I'd like to listen to it. I would want to listen to it. And I wouldn't necessarily call the FBI. Why would I call the FBI? I've never called the FBI in my entire life. He marginalizes the FBI. He marginalized it. And then he kind of... He's investigating the FBI. He said, well, I might do a couple things. I'd listen to it and maybe call the FBI. Okay. So today he has moonwalked away from this like you wouldn't believe. Well, what's he do? He chips at something. He sees what the reaction is. If it's strong enough, then he moonwalks or he back walks to talk. And then he keeps chipping at it again. And then he backs up again. He'll be back.  They never hear the back walk. They only hear the first statement. Well, and the first statement was, it knocked me out of my chair. I said, what did he just say? And then I said, okay, I know what he just said. He basically put out a yard sign saying, this election 2020 is open for business. I'm looking for anyone who wants to help me. That's what he said. You know, Russia, if you're listening, remember that? In Hillary Clinton, yeah. If you're listening, I'd like the dirt on Hillary and five hours later, they gave him the dirt on Hillary. They gave him the dirt. They hacked in. Was it Podesta? They hit that, his computer? Or I can't remember who exactly they got, but five hours later, they were at it. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. They were at it. So what we have here is a complete breach of the norm that you don't ask foreign, you don't want foreign governments to come in and affect the election. You know, this happened, gee, in the time of Thomas Jefferson, and some guy was trying to bring the French in to affect the election back in the early 19th century. And as a result, there was some action taken against the person who did it. I don't remember what it was, but he was criticized and worse for having done that. And they were trying to use the information they got from the French to beat up on Thomas Jefferson. That's what it was. Yeah. It's been going on a long time. But, I mean, you can't assume that Trump knows the history. I don't think he knows any history, or economics for that matter.  And then he just blunders into it. And then he realizes, oh, I've blundered into it because now I have Lindsey Graham or maybe Mitch McConnell saying, well, maybe I shouldn't have said that, so let me back up a little bit and say, I saw he, as a six-year-old would, gets away with it. And gets away with it. And there's no consequences. You know, yesterday I was watching C-SPAN. I'm watching it more these days because I think there's a lot of value on there. And a Buddha judge was on speaking. And I hadn't really listened to his substantive position up to this spot. Seeing sound bites, you know, you can quote me on this, sound bites are not enough. You have to listen for a while, 15, 20 minutes at least, half an hour better. And he was talking about the country under him, if he won. And it was really encouraging. It was what I've been waiting for. And he was modest about it. He wasn't just doing, you know, these kind of whip up the audience kind of statements, although the audience was applauding him. And I said to myself, gee, this is a real president here. This guy could actually help us. And the comparison, inevitably, that you make listening to Buddha judge and maybe some of the others is that, you know, Trump isn't the president. He's just looking for the headlines. He has he does not have the best interests of this nation at heart. He simply doesn't. He wouldn't know if it had socked him in the nose. I think the thing that strikes me the most is the lack of policy that he's doesn't have. He is making it up on the fly.  We hear that all the time, but he makes this stuff up on the fly. And, you know, maybe his staff has a policy in mind, but, you know, you're taking the left turn or the right turn on any given day. And whether you're following a policy procedure or not is irrelevant to Donald Trump. And I think that is unsettling for a lot of people. Maybe that's why they voted for him. Maybe that's what they want. They want to see the whole government come apart. You know, maybe that's why he got the votes that he did. So the Hatch Act says you follow this action this week. The Hatch Act says you're not supposed to campaign or do political things on on government time, and that is specially directed. As a former government employee, I was very much that was drummed into our heads. So Kellyanne Conway, for me, she's special because I remember the first time I saw her on the tube, it was during his campaign back when. And I said to myself, I don't know who this woman is, but she's lying. And she's lied consistently since then. Well, and so it's really remarkable. But beyond that, now she's, you know, acting as his mouthpiece in beating up the Democratic candidates. And so there's an office of the Special Counsel, not Mueller's office, but another office established by law that's supposed to look and see who's who's, you know, complying with and who's not complying with the Hatch Act. Follow what happened? Yeah. Well, they said she needs to go. And Donald Trump said it looks to me like they're trying to take away her right of free speech. And that's just not fair. So laws be damned.  That probably means screaming fire in a crowded theater, because that's my free right. But if you criticize him, then you don't have First Amendment. Then you don't have First Amendment. And the press certainly doesn't have First Amendment. The press is at war with him.  You say a warrior, a warrior is in a war. What war? The war on the press. Yeah. Well, let's go back to Kelly on Conway, because if you saw the interview that she did a couple of days ago, she said, if you think you're going to sign us me with the Hatch Act, it's not going to work. Let me know when the jail sentence starts. Let me talk about taunting the law and throwing the law in the face of in the mud. It's a law. Well, it's regrettable that the Hatch Act does not have a criminal penalty. So it goes back to Donald Trump to decide whether or not it's enforceable. Right. Because he says, how silly is that? How silly is that? And the public, you know, makes no judgment about this. Yeah. In fact, I would say the press makes no judgment. They report the facts for the most part as is. So you never hear anybody saying, wait a minute, that's completely wrong. It's a violation of, you know, the essence of our government to have somebody use the bully pulpit who advanced his or her own political position and to and to criticize the other guy. That's not First Amendment at all. That's the Hatch Act. Well, it's it's an obligation of office, of holding office. Yeah, I understand. Believe me, every government worker knows that you do not engage on time, political and political campaigns. But, you know, let's look at what Kellyanne Conway is really famous for. And it's not the violation of the Hatch Act. You remember what she's ultimately infamous for? And it happened on the second day of office. She coined the term alternative facts. OK, so it wasn't a lie. It wasn't a half truth. It wasn't, you know, it was an alternative fact. And that will go in history as her coin term. I don't know if the base, you know, accepts the craziness, understands the craziness of that term. It means lies is what it means. Light of the public and demagoguery, by the way, not to go back to Sarah Saunders. But here we go. Here we go. And her special term is gaslighting.  She lied every time she got up there in one of these press conferences. And you say, my God, where is she getting that from? She makes it up. Well, I think she makes it up because he tells her she's an extension of his own his own narcissism and his inability to tell the truth. What I find interesting is is that she resigned after 91 days, 91 days without a press conference. So what he's doing, you know, as I said before, two branches of government are being neutralized. You only have the president speaking on the newspaper and in Twitter all day long. OK, but conferences, press conferences, where the press can express its job, do its job and ask him questions and test him on some of these things. No press conference. This is very, this is very unsettling to me, a great concern. I mean, we're moving in exactly the wrong direction and inexorably so. And if Cynthia Sinclair was here, she'd be jumping up and down about the election and the lack of protections for the 2020 election. And these news stories today really kind of highlight what she's been talking about. What are they?  And if a foreign power wants to help me, so be it. And well, as of today, he said, well, of course, I'd call the FBI. Well, of course, he wouldn't.  Well, what did he say here on the other day? He said, the FBI director is wrong. When when George Stephanopoulos said, well, you realize that the FBI director said that you ought to, everyone ought to contact the FBI immediately. Donald Trump looked at George and goes, the FBI director is wrong. Direct quote. OK, so not only does he bypassing Congress and not only has he, you know, with multitude of distractions has been able to place judges where he wanted them place, but he's also now compromising our law enforcement agencies, you know, and he's compromised the Justice Department with William Barr as his, you know, faithful lackey. At some point, when do you have control of the complete government? Coming soon. Coming soon to a theater near you. Now, what troubles me is that I don't think people fully recognize it. They don't see it. The thing is, yeah, they don't see it coming.  Governments is dysfunctional. It's a WIM government. And if he wins the second term, it'll be far worse than that, Tim. You know, you mentioned FDR and back in the day, FDR was perceived as more or less a dictator. But, you know, what did we have going on back then? We had, you know, one of the greatest wars that we'll ever experience. World War Two.  So in some ways, maybe he was a dictator. But guess what? He did it for the benefit of the public and country and the good of all Americans. Donald Trump is not FDR. Oh, he just did it for the benefit of anyone but himself. And if I can get power and consolidate my power, that, by God, that's good for me. Oh, it's scaring me again. Now, let's just move on to to the outside world. Let's talk about foreign policy. Let's just see, just sort of take stock of his foreign policy, which is punctuated this week by the attack on those two oil tankers and the Gulf of Ramuz. It's very scary because the Gulf of Ramuz, you know, 30 percent of the world's oil passes through there. And these oil tankers are out of commission and the oil that was on them is out of commission. Oh, what's going to happen here? Iran is taking increasingly aggressive steps against him. The war of words now becomes a war of deeds. Well, a miscalculation of deeds. Yes, because miscalculation of words and deeds leads to real war. Yes, it does. And we are heightening, you know, the risk every day with this. What kind of foreign policy is that? If you answer that. Well, I've already answered it. He doesn't have a foreign policy. Why is he doing this? Maybe Bolton does. But guess what? Bolton has only paid attention to when Donald Trump wants to hear from him. You know, and I think part of this this Gulf of Ramuz, these tanker attacks, we're spending too much time on who's doing it. Was, you know, was was the assessment from Pompeo correct? Is it do we have the right actors? Or are we in a, you know, a make believe pretend scenario as we were with the weapons of mass destruction for the Iraq attack? The question is not who is what you said is what? What is the what is the policy here? Why are we even involved with Iran? And why are we ginning up a conflict needlessly? We're ginning up a conflict in the same way as we ginned up a national emergency. And a war is a national emergency. And then you take, you know, take very aggressive steps domestically when you have a war. So I think he's enhancing his power. Let's connect the dots. Let's connect the dots. What what motivation for what goal does it does it help Donald Trump to gin up a war with Iran? What does he get out of it? First of all, he gets more geography in the newspapers. That's what he gets first. And that's what he really loves most. Secondly, I think that the, you know, the ultimate effect is it increases his power and power of, you know, commanding the military, making all those guys go this way and that way.  You're going to get more money in the military. Congress, or at least the Senate, not the House, but the Senate may go along with it. Or he'll find a way to squeeze the money out of some other pocket. So you're you're saying national emergency, right? Cheney got with Blackwater when we had the Iraq conflict. Those contracts with the Blackwater and Cheney became, you know, a very, very rich man. Yeah, and Dick Cheney was always looking for power. On a smaller scale than Trump, of course. But I think that's what's happening here. And you know, we could sit here for hours and try to think of what the legitimate reason for, you know, escalating this war of words and deeds with Iran is that it's very hard to find that. I mean, he created this all by himself. Everything was doing fine. The world was happy with the results of Obama created. And now look what we have. We have an incipient war in the Middle East. A war in the Middle East is more than an ordinary war, you know, because it never ends. It goes on for generations. And we I don't think we stand a good chance of winning a war with Iran. Do you? Well, here's the question. What's Europe going to do? Is Iran going to convince Europe that we're just mining our own business here and this president named Donald Trump, you know, created and gin this thing up and are you going to go along with that? And Europe may crack on this one. Europe may say, you know what? Donald Trump has created a conflict out of thin air and wouldn't Vladimir Putin just love that to see now Europe break away from the United States and how they approach Iran? Now, I'm not saying Europe is going to go in this direction, but Iran has an argument to make. Right. We haven't been fair. We haven't been fair. We haven't made significant efforts to talk to them. Well, we've pulled out the commitment of the nuclear treaty.  Maybe if you really don't like it because of changing circumstances, but you don't pull out and say, you know, take a walk, you guys, we're going to start from scratch. We're going to disregard the whole thing. What's it say to Iran where, you know, you've been treated so badly by this and plus insulted. And then then obviously he says, I want to talk to you guys. Come on over. Come on over. Let's have some tea. He's not saying that. Well, he did. He said, I want to talk to Iran. Oh, yeah. Call me. Call me. Okay. So talk about, you know, a schizophrenic response to foreign policy. To answer your question, it's a schizophrenic response to foreign policy. That's how you get into wars. Iran is not without weapons and friends and friends. And to go back to your point about Europe. Yeah, I think Europe is sympathetic with Iran now. Some of Europe has buckled under and trumps the man's that did not buy oil from Iran. But I think that might change because he's being so unreasonable now. And, you know, and the thing with the Queen last week, I'm sorry to say, but I think what I saw there is that they were laughing at him, that the UK was laughing at him, including in her own way, the Queen. By giving him a book? Yeah, a book of signals. Author by Winston Churchill. And you'll never read it. And the countries on the continent, Germany and France, they laugh at him. It's visible they're laughing at him. When they get a chance to rule for him or against him on some request he makes, like for an alliance and dealing with Iran, they're gonna find another way. They're not gonna agree with him. You know, it was hard enough for them to agree to join the alliance that Bush created in weapons of mass destruction, which is also ridiculous. But now this will be harder. He won't be able to get him to come along. We will be alone in a war with Iran. Months and months and months ago, we talked about this very thing. We were talking about how he's insulting NATO and things of that nature. And one comment I made was nations are not unlike people. They are, a nation is people. And a leader is no different. And we have this thing called passive aggressive behavior that sometimes we employ. And that is, when you need my help the most, I may not be there for you. Because you've insulted me.  Immigration policies. Immigration policies.  But maybe I'm a little slow on the move on intelligence information that you may need or, you know, siding with what you want against a certain nation, maybe Iran. Well, I agree with you. Yeah, set the stage so many years ago now. It's easy to see this is what's gonna happen. And my question to you, this is a hard one, Tim.  We're buddies, we've been buddies all these years and he has undermined that, dramatically undermined it. And now it's going on, it's two years already. He's been undermining it.  Mis-treatment of Europe, insulting the leaders and so forth. Can his successor, hopefully his successor will come soon. Fix that, because these are relationships that are very important, critically important to us in the world, that he has critically undermined. Can we fix it or is it long term now? I think Europe, like maybe many people in this country see Donald Trump as an aberration, an anomaly. And they would hope a one-term anomaly and things will be set right with a different president. When I heard Buttigieg, talking about how he would fix up the relationship with NATO, I was really impressed. He understands, he understands the history. He understands, you know, the diplomacy. He understands the need for world collaboration. It's so different, it was so refreshing actually to hear anybody say that and he said it so well. But let's look at South America for a minute. What a mess Trump has made of South America. Instead of giving them more money so they can clear up their internal problems, he takes the money away and their problems get worse. Is anybody surprised? And then in terms of Mexico, beating up Mexico, horribly beating up our next neighbor, of a buffer at our border. Remember, like we saw in Russia, it's the Ukraine. You know, you want to have friendly buffers you can control that you have. You have buffers. You have buffers, buffers are important for national defense, for security. He's making Mexico an enemy. He's beating them up and using them every day. What was the needlessly? Okay, remember, we're not gonna call it a Mexican tariff. We're gonna call it a Mexican tax because ultimately consumers pay that tax. Okay, so he's threatening the tariffs. Guess what? Mexico had already agreed to do everything that they said they were gonna do and Donald Trump made it seem like, well, they responded to my tariffs. Well, guess what? Mexico had already committed to putting on sick, I can't remember the number now, border troops and let people who are waiting for asylum to reside in Mexico.  So why did Donald Trump throw this Mexican tariff tax on the table and embarrass the president and make it seem like Mexican kowtow to the great Donald Trump when Mexico had already agreed to these provisions long before? But I'll go one step further. Three weeks ago, he announced that he had struck a deal on tariffs with Mexico and Canada. No problem boys, I struck a deal. We made an agreement, we're tight, we're friends. And then all of a sudden that went away. It's like it never happened, it was double think. And I don't understand this, you know, you make history disappear, they do that in China but apparently we do it here in the US too. So instead of having the agreement he spoke of two weeks earlier, now he has no agreement that he's throwing it out and he's making new demands and the whole thing is bizarre. But let me shift, let me shift to Venezuela in terms of double think. So he wants to support, what was his name, the protest president, the one who was outside. Sorry, he's talking about committing troops and money and all this stuff and making a big hubbub and making public statements about it and nothing happened, zero. He didn't do anything. And the fellow, I can't remember his name, is all of a sudden off the screen and Trump is off the screen and in fact the Russians and the Chinese are digging in Venezuela and supporting Maduro. Maduro, yeah. So what has happened here? It's a completely failed initiative and he would like us to just forget about it. I'm not forgetting about it and I hope his base doesn't forget about it. Well, I guarantee you the people that are starving and have nothing, they're not forgetting about it and that's why they're trying to get asylum here in the United States or many of them are trying to make that trip. What a tragedy. Central and South America is a tragedy, really, I think. But all those generals and hunters, what? But also now in Mexico, he's making Mexico a tragedy because Mexico is fragile in its own way and we need to support them. We need to be there for them. I can't think of how many allies he's, basically he's insulted and how many times he wants to snuggle up to North Korea and all the other death spots in this world. I can't explain it. I don't want to explain it. Donald Trump's an anomaly and I think it's time to impeach him. And Nancy Pelosi needs to get off the stick. Well, yes, I agree. He's got to stop. He's waiting for Gordau and Gordau's not coming so fast. He's waiting for Gordau. Yes, I remember that play. He was Mexican, by the way. I remember that play. But you know, one thing I find very interesting about all of that with Nancy and impeachment is that, you know, we're not there yet and it's not gonna happen and he still has his base and his Senate. They're not gonna let it happen. So, I mean, I think that we should do the right thing. I can agree with you more now. That's what Buttigieg was saying. Do the right thing. Stand for something. Yeah, stand for something.  Well, we ought to double down. We do the rest of us. In the nature of the Democratic Party, though, they don't have the spine to double down or triple down. Stand for something or you'll fall for anything as the old lyric goes. And Nancy's Pelosi knows what they're worried about. They're worried about the Republicans getting all riled up and showing up at the polls and at the voting booths in 2020. Well, guess what? They're already riled up. They're gonna show up no matter what. So you might as well plan for it and stand for something and do something that protects the rule of law, protects the Constitution, and by gosh, stop playing this Mamby Pamby play out the clock game. And that's what she's trying to do. She needs to get behind more senators and more House representatives to say, we are going to go through the process. Get it done by this fall. You can start it, get it done, and say, now we're gonna focus. It's gonna hang after that. It's gonna hang in the center. But we know the statement will be, yes, we have courage. Yes, we have principles, and we're not gonna stand by and let him wreck the country and the world. Because that's what he's doing. And sometimes I think that you and me, we find truths that maybe are not otherwise visible. And I think it's very important we keep on doing this show, Tim. Why do we have to? For no other reason, just to keep from going insane. Yeah. Well, we should all be worried. You know, I wanna make one thing clear, is that we have notes that could go on for another two hours here. We do. But Tim and I have a kind of an approach to let it fly and we just connect the dots as we seek to connect the dots on Trump. So next week, we'll continue our discussion. You got it, Tim. Thanks for having me. Aloha, Jay. Aloha. See you next week.


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