tv Countdown With Keith Olbermann Current March 23, 2012 8:00pm-9:00pm PDT
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we sold records, one day i'm going to be going to your house. >>got a cool idea of your own? enter it now at wouldntitbecoolif.com. four finalist will have the chance to pitch their idea to will.i.am. one winner may see their invention idea brought to life. is. >> in 1974 the last japanese troops from the second world war surrendered. they refused to believe give up despite the whole world telling them that the world was over. our fourth story rick santorum continued his campaign today as the list continued to grow of republicans telling him the primary is over. if the violent supporters he drew today are any indication perhaps he should listen. santorum was in louisiana ahead of tomorrow's primary showing off his sharp shooting abilities.
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as santorum was lining up his shot a woman yells presented its obama. then he shoots. today he began to back away from his own implications that republicans were better off voting for president obama than mitt romney. >> instead of taking a risk of what may be the etch-a-sketch candidate of the future. >> by this afternoon the calm had gone and senator santorum went on to coolly address those remarks. >> i've always said i would never vote for barack obama. are you kidding me? that's absurd. it's laughable. the idea that this gaffe is a joke. >> santorum fights on and tea party republicans have begun to call for everyone to get behind romney after a meet and greet with the romney. tea party dim demint the best
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thing they can do is throw their support behind republican nominee which is beginning to look like romney. >> there is a lot of fatigue among our party. they're really kind of tired of this. ey feel the vet something happening and they want to batten down the hatches and make a decision. i'm joining by politico joe williams. >> hi, good to be here. >> claims to reset the campaign. it's not even a winner take all. how can it reset the campaign. >> it can't really. the only thing that it will reset is the hope that rick santorum can continue on. i mean, look, everybody expects santorum will take louisiana and take it handily giving us another narrative to have us talk more about the fact that romney can't win in the south. other than that it doesn't really change the delegate math or that mitt romney probably has
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what in infect is an insurmountable lead. and it doesn't change the fact that rick santorum is exciteing nobody else in the party besides people who don't like mitt romney. >> does it matter to santorum that now the tea party republicans like demint bachmann no matter how we'rely they're saying it, they're saying that it's time for everyone to drop out and get out of romney's way. it's not just establishment but it's those who had positioned themselves for santorum, so to speak. >> it doesn't matter yet. if rick santorum does win louisiana, that gives him another impetus to say see i told you, i can draw the conservatives that mitt romney can't. however, jim demint michelle bachmann pretty soon the trickle will turn into a flood. the dam will burst and santorum will have no other option but to
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rethink the possibilities get a serious talking to from party elders, drop out completely of his own accorder or decide he'll continue on no matter what, and in that scenario he's probably going to do more harm to his future prospects than good to his present ones. >> any indication or a good guess about what demint and bachmann would say what they said now? did the two of them actually look at the turnout in illinois, that 24% figure and go, my god this is not burnishing our brand. this is putting people to sleep and/or burning them? >> well, if i were them, certainly, the primary, mitt romney won by double digits but there was a turnout almost at a record low. the brand is being harmed by the fact that mitt romney cannot put away two guys who have been defeated and defeated handily. he couldn't put them away until illinois. but he put them away in illinois
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with a record low turnout. that has some worried. also, the longer this thing goes on the more gaffes you're going to see the more romney is exposed, the more the dnc ads right themselves. it's in everybody else's best interesting unless you're newt gringrich, rick santorum, ron paul who say we haven't found the one we love so we're going to love the one we're with. let's get it on. >> last thing about santorum and the remarks we might as well stick with what we have instead of taking the risk of the etch-a-sketch candidate for the future. is it fair to say his reactions on fox basically screaming this isn't a gaffe indicates how much of a gaffe it really was. >> you cannot call it a gaffe if you did it. if you did it and somebody else calls it a gaffe, it's a gaffe. a lot of people were talking about it today. what is unfortunate is that rick
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santorum in the midst of all this trayvon martin controversial holds an event at a gung range. that's tone deaf to me and that was a slight campaign error because the vigils were proper. then somebody suggesting that he pretends that it's obama that he's firing at. that's awful and i think that to me spoke more volumes to the fact that he said barack obama you might as well stick with him if you're going to vote for mitt romney. >> to his credit he distanceed himself and called that a bad remark. but to his discredit, what he could have done was schedule that event for the shooting range and then said because of what happened we're not going to have this event or we'll reconvene at the the the i hop in a half hour. joe williams, politico, have a good weekend. >> thank you you too. >> how out of control the
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>> soon the list of those not illegally targeted by the new york police department will be shorter than those who did. the catholic church said the cardinals base their votes on their perception of the voice of god. they decided that meant poem stephen. the body elect had a stroke and died implying that they heard wrong. time marchs on. we begin with political news. the president announced he'll be naming jim yong kim as the new head of the world bank. mr. kim had not been able to interview with the president in person but instead sent a video. ♪ i had a time of my life
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♪ and i never felt ♪ this way before ♪ ♪ i came up ♪ and get to rock like fire ♪ make it hot ♪ rooting for my idols ♪ up here giving ♪ all they got ♪ so come on ♪ let's go ♪ the show is out of control ♪ the house is hot tonight ♪ go big green ♪ go, go ♪ >> that was president kim performing at last year's singing contest. simon cowel could not be reached for comment. it is important to have good communication with your graphics department. >> we're talking with singer meat loaf about his new album. [laughing] there is a picture of meat loaf. >> they get to bed early when they work on the morning show.
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it was good the band "barenaked ladies" wasn't singing. >> the >> great job, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, cenk. >> this is one of the largest thefts in american history happening right under our nose >> one general in the war on women claims there isn't such a thing, it's all political theater, coming up. brought to you by the 2012 fiat 500. visit fiatusa.com
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the stories of nypd kept information on and plain clothes officers attended meetings of house keepers and nannies. when confronted. ray kelly went on the offense. >> we're sort of, you know, under attack. the they've done over 30 stories and it's tough to go up against a wire services that has a certain template that it's sticking to. again, i would submit that they have not done their home work. >> again new york's finest is being beaten by new york's best. and then mosque crawlers spied on muslims in new york city and new jersey in colleges up and down the not the only one critical of nypd tactics. an op ed article saying its time
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to police the nypd. the u.s. attorney general has voiced concern. kelly said that he's reading the wrong stories. >> eric holden said he only knows whey read in the newspaper. so it does come back to the associated press. eric holder had not gotten any n, but he said that he was disturbed by what you he read in the newspapers. >> matt, thank you for your time tonight. >> keith, great to be back. >> commissioner kelly claims the department of justice and the hand shoe consent decree give the nypd its authority to spy on whoever it wants and accuses the associated press of not doing research. what is mentioned in the sand hadshoe consent decree. the guidelines stem from a lawsuit that goes all the way back to nypd spying on political
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dissidents. the rules were relaxed after 9/11 at the city's request. and commissioner kelly may be right, the monitoring of public events, going to public meetings visiting public restaurant and monitoring through the ethnicity of the clientele, he may be right that that's all lawful under the new guidelines, but what we do know is that the fbi has some standing orders in new york not to accept certainly intelligence from these programs. it would prohibit them from retaining documents on purifiers-amendment related materials. from what we stand this has never been a question of what is legal or not, but what are the policies of our nation's largest police department to fight terrorism in new york city.
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>> two of the people one journalist and one labor organizers for nannies and house keepers, we're down to looking at nanny and housekeeper organizers as threats to the security of new york? >> i don't even think that the nypd officer who put that in the file thought there was some sort of a threat, which is the point for why why we wrote about about it. it shows the counterterrorism tactics adopted post 9/11 you know, put entire groups under scrutiny. at times those tactics get turned on what would otherwise be lawful areas. the police department has an interest in knowing who is going to protest in our city. nobody wants the repeat of the violence in seattle or quebec. but when you see things like this with no allegations of wrongdoing, that piqued our interest. >> and your investigation found the nypd might have an
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intelligence division monitoring occupy wall street. >> that's an intriguing question. the commissioner testified before the city council last week, and was asked specifically about this. he said he couldn't for sure how much money was spent infiltrating occupy wall street but the majority of the intelligence they came open source from the internet. interestingly enough, two website have obtained how many land security documents that said we don't want to collect intelligence from occupy wall street. >> the associated press is far more powerful than it used to be when i was with upi. it will help new york capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge.
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shooting that wounded gabby giffords and took the life of six otherwise. ron barber was acting as an aid announced this week he would be running for a full congressional term this fall. mr. barrber will join me in a moment. you'll recall the moving house floor. barber announced that he would be running the june special election to fulfill her term. and then announced with the support of ms. giffords and her hustled be running. this is not the case for the august primary in which two candidate have declared their intention to run and say despite barber's announcement to run they will remain in the race. joining me now former congressional aide to gabrielle
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giffords ron barber. thank you for coming. >> thank you for inviting me. >> you said you would not run for the full term. what thanked your minted. >> i never intended to run for any political office. i had to set up the business of putting together a campaign staff, opening an office, getting on ballot. we had 18 days to gather signatures. we ended up with 71 signatures so i felt it was a ground swell of support for my candidacy. then i went around the district and met with different people from different communities. as i was going around the district i kept getting asked by people well, aren't you going to run for the congressional two seat. toyed give it consideration, which i did. in the indiana it was a decision i had to make in consultation with my doctor and my family. this is a huge decision for all of us, certainly from my family. and last weekend on saturday and sunday we got together, and the
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decision was that they would support me running and i declared my candidacy on monday. >> was there conversations with congressman giffords and mark kelly. >> yes, they had both asked me to run for both seats. i ran as i indicated for the congressional district eight. then later they encouraged me to run for congressional districts two. i have their support and i'm glad of that. >> you still have fatigue and ptsd oh symptoms which would be expected with such nearness to the event chronologically. how are you feeling now? >> i feel really well. not only in terms of ptsd but physically. i have to check myself out closely before i even announced the first race. i wanted to make sure that i had the stamina and the stability in
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every way to get the job done. my doctor and i met and looked at my situation and determined that i had it. one of the things that has been remarkable getting into the campaign over the now first six weeks is the energy i've gotten from people who have come to support us, and i really feel energized. as far as the ptsd is concerned that is under total management and control. one of the things that i learned, and i would really want to say this, one of the things that we have to do is make sure that people with ptsz get treatment and services early on as i did. we have a lot of veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan who go far too long without evaluation and treatment. that's wrong and unacceptable. one of my goals when i go to congress will be to fight hard to make sure that veterans get the kind of treatment early on they need to get better. >> is another one of your goals in the wake of the trayvon martin shooting in the past
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month, a more vigorous discussion of gun control and rules and regulations in this country? >> well, i really think as we look at what happened, and it's a terrible thing that happened to this young man and his family. my condolences and my heart goes out to them. having been involved in a shooting incident myself, i know how shattering it can be, christina green younger than trayvon, was shot and killed on the ground with us. the issue coming out of florida is not so much about guns and gun control but the law in florida which may well had been misinterpreted or misapplied in this case that allows people to, quote, defend themselves. i'm glad the governor of florida has appointed a special investigator to look into this case. so far it does not appear that the facts have been properly pursued and justice has yet to be done. the family is suffering
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terribly, but the least thing we can do is make sure we have a thorough investigation of whether or not this law was properly applied. it appears it might not have been, and we need to know better. >> ron barber, great congratulations on your improve the attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up, thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now, the legislators are running scared. very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years, really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was shelved, idaho this proved to be political poison. women are paying attention and having their voices heard.
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he wrote about them. drew them. envied them thought them superior to men but did he not think of them infallible. he didn't even think his own dogs were infallible. in this, one comes off badly. and publish first in the sunday new york sometimes and then in 1948 in the "beast in me and other animals." the thurber dog who had severe problems telling one human from another. part one of look homeward genie. by james thurber. the moot and momentous request of whether lost dogs had the power to get home from distant places over strange terrain has been argued for years by dog owners, dog haters and others who don't know much about the matter. in the natural history of nonsense sides with the cynics that believe that the lost dug doesn't have any more idea where he is than a babe in the woods like pigeons wrote mr. evans, dogs are thought to have a supernatural ability to find
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their way home after hundreds and thousands of miles of strange terrain and then dogs show up at the door step that baffle master who is have abandoned them from afar before but set to stories are the lost and found columns which offers the rewards for the recovery of dogs that apparently couldn't find their way back from the next block. there evanmr. evans touches on the suspect of a minister caught alone in a parlor with an irritable dog. i don't know about dogs that are supposed to return from strange and distant places like an indian scout or locomotive engineer but i'm not ready to write them off. skepticism is an useful tour of the inquisitive mind but it is scarcely a method of investigation. i would like to see an expert reporter set out on the trail of
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the homing dog and see what he could find. i happen to have a few haphazard clippings on the subject but they're unsupportive of any convincing proof. the most interesting case is that of bosco, a small dog that is reported to have returned to his house in knoxville tennessee, in the winter of 1944 from glendale, california. the setting for the world distant record event 3200 miles in seven months. it's in a book by mr. rourke. he got his tip but in a letter mr. vincent said to me he had some doubts that the truth of the long trek through towns and cities and over rivers and deserts, the dog belonged to a family named flanagan. he does not question the
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sincerity of their believe that the dog that turned up on their ponch was bosco. identification had to be made on markings and behavior. the long-distance record has to be set down as a case that would stand up only in a court of lore. far-traveling dogs have become so common that editors are expected to turn over their activities to society editors. with headings like this rex a bull terrier returned to his home after a four-month trip to florida where he was lost last friday. weremr. and mrs. thompson's daughter is due home for summer vacation. for the sake of a fairness two clippings of cats.
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mr. black stamford, connecticut to atlanta georgia 1,000 miles. the homing dog when "lassie come home" portrayed a young collie returning to his master through terrain and darkness and storm. this $1 million testament of faith, this un unconscious memorial may have started evans remark. i suspect that evans has not owned a dog he assumes that the dog does not come back from the next block because it can't find its way. if it this reasoning were applied to the thousands of men who disappear from their homes every year, it would exonerate them of every flaw except disorientation and this is too much of an explanation for man
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and beast. for the dog as it does the husband the dog that does not come home is too large afield of research for one investigator, and so i will confine myself to the case history of genie. genie was a small scottish terrier whose nature i observed over a period of two years her jaw was skimpy. her haunches frail. her forelegs slightly bowed. she saw dimly and she had a strained uncomfortable appearance of a woman on a bicycle. genie adjusted locally to everything including weather. rain was a hand raised against her personally. snow evil. thunder, the end of the world. well, that's all for
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