Abby Martin: Anti-Russia Intelligence Report "Audaciously Ridiculous"

Published: Jan. 10, 2017, 5 a.m.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Abby Martin, formerly the host of RT's Breaking The Set and currently host of TeleSUR's The Empire Files.

The U.S. intelligence agencies’ unclassified report on Russia’s involvement in the election didn’t provide any evidence of hacking, instead choosing to focus on media such as RT, including a show that hasn’t been on the air for nearly two years. Brian speaks with Abby Martin about why her show was included and the way the mainstream media has slandered her.

President Obama gives his farewell speech tonight in Chicago, just ten days before the end of his administration. What is his real legacy? Walter Smolarek, producer of Loud & Clear, discusses Obama's two terms and if he will challenge Trump in his final address.

Today marks ten years since George W. Bush ordered a troop surge in Iraq at the height of the U.S. occupation, but a decade later thousands of U.S. forces remain as the Iraqi army advances on Mosul. Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief of The Duran, discusses the past decade of U.S. intervention in the Middle East.