no no no how many like max blumenthal. minutely huge for a yet says something it's a step in the right direction of how many other anchors on mainstream media on c.n.n. imus n.b.c. fox or are inviting guests like the hard left is like maxwell with all and particularly people who disagree with you that really important here. but i disagree a lot that's why he's on this program here rob what i think is really interesting i will say go ahead get real quick up before i go to robert i will say that yeah what i will say is that i believe that tucker carlson invited max blumenthal on the show because they agreed on the topics that they were chatting about you're talking. you know one of the interesting things the time putting here is that you we had the neo cons that were in the republican side on the republican now they've moved over embrace the left we have a lot of room republicans and i'm thinking of people like john mccain. and lindsey graham that are very neo con in like and they're moving it leaps ideologically to the new

blumenthal max good to see you first can you tell us who bilawal abdul karim is was and why c.n.n. is linked to him isn't isn't voting very well. well i don't know if it's voting well or not c.n.n. it intends to completely overlook this story and kind of sounds like a wild eyed conspiracy c.n.n. link to al qaeda but the fact is that c.n.n. for its under cover in serious national hired contracted the services of a lot of dual karim was the only american living in al qaeda controlled territory that i know of he is someone who's been referred to by top al qaeda clerics like a billow hasan he is our media man al-arabiya the state saudi state media organ referred to dual karim as a member of judgement on this or the al qaeda affiliate in syria i don't know if that's true karim has denied it careens close colleague from his online organization on the ground news. who is a british citizen who entered syria territory has just had his citizenship stripped the british government has accused him of membership in al-qaeda and it's very clear that abdul karim is close to al qaeda because if you

max blumenthal is an author, a journalist, and a lifelong man of the left. he's become skeptical of the russian collusion narrative which he has called destructive and dangerous. last month, he took a camera too an anti-russia protest on the national mall here in washington to find out what the people who were there actually know about the topic. here's part of the conversation, an amazing conversation he had with an aggressive congressman. >> you said that roger stone hosted a show. >> roger stone hosted a series on the russian propaganda network. >> do you believe that we need roger stone -- >> that he did not host a show? that he didn't host a show. >> you can go after any details you want but i don't see why it would be your interest and support an autocratic authoritarian government which is jailing journalists and fighting freedom.or >> i think we should tell the people the truth. >> tucker: max blumenthal joins us in studio. i love that exchange because it similar to so many i've had on the show or if you call into question the facts beingr asserted y

anyway this story was broken by two of the best investigative journalists i know max blumenthal and been nor net alter net basically the man al-qaeda operatives now call their media man. kareem he's an american from new york who the saudi arabian news l.a. al arab media reported on june seventh that of dual karim officially joined al nasra in two thousand and twelve is basically al-qaeda in syria and apparently given like friendly fawning interviews to some of syria's most notorious jihad is figures so now c.n.n. is trying to minimize the work abdul karim did on their movie their very special movie their award winning documentary and he here's how this came out he was not happy about it it was he was it was very upset whether leave and leave him out now c.n.n. barely mentioned my name he said i'm telling you somehow c.n.n. must have forgotten that i was the one that filmed it i guess they forgot. i don't think they are for it but i think maybe c.n.n. doesn't want to make a big to do about the fact that they were hiring al qaida is american foreign ng medium and they're there they're not

blumenthal a lefty gal bird a marine corps vet and congressman woman from hawaii who is it was a staunch left democrat with glenn greenwald who is basically going so in a few months ago and this is where this technocratic liberal center has forced conservative voices on one side and left the voices on the other they're having to reach around and suddenly we have more in common than we thought we did particularly on issues of foreign policy and military intervention in the that's a very interesting one and i think you're absolutely right but these people are a lot of the people that mark just mentioned are very prominent well known widely respected but they become demonized as well for changing their position that is really quite remarkable when i think of the names that mark just mentioned there these people earned their good name for a reason and now they're being torn down there where this is. just so i would i would go back to the nuts where they came up with this kind of you know to to to scapegoat they came up with this sort of. judeo bush who's on the one had taken a group of peopl

desensitizes aggravated nerves with the max strength lidocaine available. new icyhot lidocaine patch. >>> we're back with democratic senator richard blumenthal, he's the member of the senate judiciary and armed services committee. russia is demanding the return of two compounds seized during the final weeks of the obama administration in return for russia's meddling in the presidential election. and just now only moments ago after a meeting with u.s. officials here at the state department in washington, russia's deputy foreign minister was asked if the russians are going to be getting their compounds back and he said, and i'm quoting him now, almost, almost. what do you think about that, senator blumenthal? if he believes that almost, almost, those two compounds, one in suburban maryland outside of washington, d.c., a huge estate, another one outside of new york city, another huge estate, if they are going to be returned to the russians? >> these two compounds reportedly have been involved in russian spying and intelligence activity. to return them would be