>> david: i'm david sirota. be afraid. be very afraid. not just i'm guest hosting this week, but because the government wants do you be afraid. i feel like we have heard this tune before. "the war room" starts right now. [♪ theme music ] >> david: welcome inside "the war room," i'm david sirota. michael shure is off this week. in an unprecedented move this weekend, the obama administration extended the closure of the 19 of the 22 american embassies shut down sunday amid terrorism threats. the white house has been routed

by both sides of the aisle. this comes over one month before the 12-year anniversary of the september 11th attacks, and one year after the attacks in benghazi. saxby chambliss had this to say on meet the press. >> there has been an awful lot of chatter out there, very recommend necessa necessary -- reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11. i can tell you david this is the most serious threat that i have seen in the last several years. >> david: others recall the political use of terror warnings during the bush administration, and they think this might be a political stunt to give credibility to the co

con -- controversial depreciations. >> they have decided there is this massive threat, and within literally within hours the likes of saxby chambliss and lindsey graham join with the white house to insist that these steps are necessary. >> david: the state department denies the motives. here is marie hath. >> i can assure you that that in no way, period, 100% affects how we evaluate threat information coming in. specifically in terms of this threat. >> david: joining me now is political strategist and chair of dogpatch strategies donnie fowler. donnie, thanks for being back in "the war room." >> glad to be here. >> david: there were a lot of questions about george bush politicizing terror warnings, should we be asking those

questions now? >> we don't have in the last four and a half years a lot of evidence of barack obama doing the same thing as bush and cheney. so we don't need to be spectacle of these warnings on those facts alone. >> david: most congressmen have spoken out in favor of this, but they don't know much necessarily about what the nsa is doing. there was a big story in the guardian, saying members are being rejected in trying to find out what is going on. so are lawmakers sort of saying stuff that they don't know what they are saying. >> lawmakers, as you know, david like to follow the pack and take the safest position, and the safest position is say let's trust these are bad guys, sure they want to get us. >> stephanie: let's turn to some of the fighting among the

parties right now. last week rand paul and chris christie, they had a big fight. they knocked heads. this week mitch mcconnell fighting off his primary challenger. he has even created a website saying bailout bevin calling this challenge a probailout kind of guy. is this good news for america? bad news for the republican party? both? the opposite? >> it's good news for the democratic party. if your enemy is committing suicide don't stop them and interrupt them. and the republicans are doing a nice job of taking themselves down. is it good for america? it is probably good for the america, if mitch mcconnell is the leader of the senate. but most americans don't care at all about what is happening in kentucky. but does mitch mcconnell move father and farther to the right than he already is, therefore

giving the democrat a chance to win, or move to the middle, and risk losing his fight in his own republican party. >> david: paul ryan has said a government shutdown to defund obamacare, not good politics. others suggesting it is good politics. where do you come down on that and where do you think the country comes down on that? >> the republicans have got caught preaching one thing, and doing another. they say they want to cut the government, defund obamacare. paul ryan ran for vice president on that one issue alone. but now when it comes time to put your money where your mouth is, they can't do it. all they know is what they have always known for the last seven years.

we're against barack obama. and now they are fighting with each other. >> david: let's turn to the democrats. a big primary although polls show it not that close of race, but congressman rush hult has aired this ad. it suggest there is some infighting of the same kind in the democratic party. watch this. >> we need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. break up the wall street breaks, and stop the government spying on innocent americans. cory booker doesn't support any of these ideas. i approve this message because corey may be the front runner in this race, but he's no progressive. >> david: i see anned a like this, i say this is good. the democratic party is fighting for who is more progressive. is this good news for the

democratic party? i don't think it weakens the democratic party, but for someone who works with democrats is it good or bad news. >> there is saying that somebody is not going to give you power, you have to take it from them. rush hult and the others are going to have to take the power from cory booker. so this is his unlikely effort to take away status from cory booker. is it good for them to sling personal mud at each other? no. but he didn't do this in this ad. >> that comment you made with the first comment you made about republican infighting. is democratic infighting good for democrats? why the difference? >> this is one primary in the state of new jersey where they are disagreeing on issues.

the republican party is a national fight, and it goes to the core of their movement. are they a right-wing tea party libertarian style? those are really fundamental differences. we're talking about one special election in new jersey right now. >> david: let's turn to republicans fighting with -- with media companies. the chairman of the republican party has said that nbc should not air a new movie -- or a planned movie about hillary clinton and actually threatening to boycott -- to have republican candidates boycott presidential debates in the future if nbc goes along with this. what is your take on this? >> there's a lot of petlance, but this will have no effect whatsoever on the 2016 election.

what happens to the republican party in 2016 will be determined by their nominee. any promises or threats they make now are worthless in 2016. this is red meat to the base. this ties in to the right-wing's belief, not proven, that there is a liberal media establishment that is out to get the republican party, get jesus, apple pie, everybody, except for liberals. >> david: and the thing is i think there may be a strategy behind this, where republicans worry the movie is too positive for hillary clinton -- >> i doubt that. >> david: i do too. donnie fowler thanks for being here in "the war room." >> good to be here. >> david: coming up next, facebook mark zuckerberg likes immigration reform but his motives might be less than

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>> did anyone tell the pilgrims they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely!

>> (singing) >> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv. >> david: welcome back to "the war room." it's going to be an interesting week in the immigration rebate. they are targeting lawmakers in their home districts and they have picked up some pretty big-name allies. mark zuckerberg will make a speech here in san francisco appealing for immigration reform. this has been a political coming-out party for the

high-tech industry. this spring, zuckerberg and other techies formed forward us. they released a series of sharp elbow ads. the ads didn't mention immigration but slammed other priorities. >> that's why he is fighting for the future. >> david: zuckerberg says he favors immigration reform because it's the right thing to do, but one priority for silicon valley is raising the limit on temporary visas for high-skilled workers. the number is currently capped at 65,000. this year that limit was reached in just five day, but it might

be a solution insearch of a problem. is there really a shortage of high-tech workers in the united states? >> my question to you is why does the government continue to issue and extend h1-b visas when there are tons of americans just like my husband with no job. >> obama: what industry tells me is they don't have enough highly skilled engineers. if your husband is in that field, then we should get his resume and i'll forward it to some of these companies that are telling me they can't find enough engineers in this field. >> david: that leaves skeptics wondering is the visa good for the u.s., or just good for silicon valley. with us now is director of research at duke university's pratt school of engineering and a fellow at stanford law school. vivek welcome inside "the war room." thank you for being here. >> thank you.

>> david: you argued that high-tech immigration is good for the united states in general, but yet, we have an unemployment problem in the united states. make your case that high-tech immigration for high-tech jobs is good for the average american worker. >> an engineer is an engineer the skills are vastly different. the type of people that silicon valley are the hot shot engineers that understand the latest technology that is coming up. google and other large players buy companies just for the talent. they spend millions of dollars just buying the talent. if you could hire anyone of the street and give them this job it would be different. but you can't. these companies can't expand. they can't grow. they can't develop new medical

devices new technologies, which means the rest of america is getting hurt. true they are can't make as much anymore, or face unemployment, it's really sad. my heart breaks for them. but you can't strangle off innovation for the rest of america. we employ all sorts of workers and uplift the economy. medical devising being built by companies in silicon valley, this is what gets strangled in this fight to protect a few jobs, which are under threat anyway, because those people have the wrong skills. >> david: here is the argument you hear from especially unemployed high-tech workers.

they say i'm qualified for a job. the company has brought in applicants because they accept less money, and here is the thing, because the visa is essentially controlled by the employer, the immigrant cannot ask for a raise without the fear of essentially being sent home. the argument is that the visa is being used to undercut american worker's wages, and has nothing to do with skills. >> let's fix the visa itself. it's not that we don't need this people. if an american company has to pay 10, 15, million dollars to hire immigrant workers, and then they face the wrath of hiring

these workers, why would they do it? they do it because they have to do it to survive and innovate. that's the situation in silicon valley. >> david: the -- the use of the visa, the data about who uses, which company use the visa, for the last two years the biggest user of the visa the employer has been outsorcerers. >> that's less than [ inaudible ] if you look behind what these claims are being made. you notice it's always the indian companies that are vilified. it's also the american companies that use them. and these numbers are distorted. you can play games with numbers. the majority of the visas go to non-indian companies. so yes the outsourcing industry uses it.

goes to trade regulations. let's not confuse it with the needs of silicon valley. you would have to walk around the streets in san francisco and mete entrepreneurs. they are looking for people with the right skills to build world class companies. >> david: i'm somebody who says i want there to be more legal immigration in this country. but i also know how economics 101 is supposed to work. when there's less workers available, and more demand for jobs, wages are supposed to go up. i think this is a way to rig that formula. there's a demand for work, the companies don't want to raise wages, let's just add more visas. i still worry about the fact that the labor market may being rigged by adding more workers.

what do you say to the average high-tech worker who south of work? >> first of all in the area demand are going up. if you look at wages for the occupation be it workers or employees, they are going up dramatically. the fact you have silicon valley companies doing ak cue hires just for talent, shows you the severe demand for that talent. yes, there's unemployed computer workers, and i feel bad for them. my belief is that the government needs to invest in retraining, reeducating people, and facilitating them moving up the ladder and encouraging them to learn more, grow more. all of these things need to be done. but right now in the tech world, this is the time when america is

reinventing itself. we're inventing all of these amazing technologies that will help solve the problems of food, energy, hunger. they are going to help america become competitive again and rule the world. i say that in a positive way. it's a technology-driven country. the u.s. only graduates 4% of the engineers in the world. it's like saying that you have to come -- globally you have to compete on a world scale, but you only hire 4% of the talent because it happens to be american talent. these companies get the majority of engineers abroad. how can we say that they have to be restricted to a small tiny labor pool, and can't get people from wherever it makes sense to get them. it's not about cost or salary savings. it's about being competitive,

creating jobs for the rest of americans. >> david: it's an interesting debate. i wrote a book about this issue about five years ago, and it wasn't talked about much in the open, so i'm glad it is being debated and discussed. vivek wadhwa thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> david: really appreciate. coming up next, he is already king james. but can he be president james? lebron james is considering a run for higher office. that story is next, and it's one you'll only find here in "the war room." ç]

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>> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> david: the ongoing alex rodriguez soap opera took another turn today. major league baseball announced suspension for a-rod and 12 others. as baseball's highest paid player ever, his case is unique. for months rumors of an eventual suspension swirled as major league baseball was reportedly considering banning him for life. a-rod said he was being singled out. >> i think there are a lot of people that are confused and don't understand the process, but there are a lot of layers. i will say this there is more than one party that benefits

from me never stepping back out on the field, and it's not my teammates and the yankees fans. but when people are finding creative ways to cancel your contract, that concerning for me, the president and future players as well. >> david: today they announced a 200-game ban. and in an official statement they said, quote . . . while the other 12 players named today we will begin serving their suspensions immediately, he is the only one still playing while the appeal is in process.

there is one group of supporters who are backing him. the player's union. and the reason is simple. $34 million. that's how much the ban will cost a-rod. the labor saying goes, an injury to one is an injury to all. in a statement today the player's association came to his defense . . . just as his lengthy and complicated appeals process gets underway, he will be in the lineup, collecting his per game salary of $175,000. joining us to unravel this mess is dave zirin, sports reporter for "the nation" and author of "bad sports: how owners are ruining the games we love".

dave, thanks for being with us. >> great to be here david. >> david: so here is the first question. now i'm not a huge fan of the yankees, so in a certain sense the smallest violin is playing for a-rod, at least my smallest violin in the world, but i don't think i'm alone in not really liking a-rod. in fact a lot of people loathe him. so why then is the union supporting him? if so many people don't like him, if there's a lot of evidence against him, why should the union none the less support him? >> the great writer said rooting for the yankees is like rooting for u.s. steal. there are a lot of reasons to not like a-rod. i live literally a 5-minute drive away from a dilapidated housing project, and it's owned by alex rodriguez. he has made over

$30 million -- $300 million in his career, and despite all of that, despite his financial backing of anti-union politicians, the major league baseball players association truly had no choice but to come to his defense. if major league baseball was able to do what they wanted to do, which would have been to suspend alex rodriguez for over a year and have him not play while he was appealing, i mean it would have basically taken the teeth out of what exists as far as an appeals process in major league baseball, and destroyed the player's association standing with their own members. >> david: bud selig has unprecedented power in levelling these bans. that's a fact. is the role of baseball to told

the players and the owners accountable. this situation has been festering for years, and all of the focus seems to be only on the individual players. is this a systemic problem, and can the union hold the owners accountable? >> that's a great question. there's kind of a lazy media story coming out that the reason why the player's union has been so much more arm in arm with baseball owners and bud selig, is because their own members want action on steroids, and they are responding to the will of their membership. there is perhaps some truth to that, but in actuallity, i think the player's association needs to be doing much more to be able to address the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. this should be their role as advocates for players, to change the way it is discussed from being an issue where the

penalties pal on individual players, yet all of the benefits of the bulked up players go right to major league baseball own -- team owners. the people at the top of the pyramid don't face any punishment at all. it's like the old saying about the criminal justice system. catching the minnows while the sharks go free. they are such popular players, and yet the problem is the new york yankees when a-rod is suspended are going to get a $34 million winfall as an organization, so far from being penalized from having multiple

players named in this drug scandal, the yankees will actually benefit once the suspensions are done. >> david: let's talk about potentially the top of the pyramid when it comes to labor and the players themselves. another interesting story that caught my eye, lebron james, king james considering a run for the player's union. what is the significance if any of lebron james becoming the most famous, best known, probably best paid labor leader in america? >> yeah, i would hope he would be the best paid leader in america. it would be pretty horrifying if there's a plumber's union somewhere that was making more than lebron james. but this is a story that has a lot of smoke but no fire.

there is no conceivable way given his schedule that he would be able to put in the hours. and it is a lot of hours. i had the benefit of being able to interview the former head of the nba player's association several times, and the element of basic gut work that they do have to do as part of being president is not something that lebron is going to want to do, but the mere fact that he is standing up and saying i want to have a stronger union for nba players. that is just another thing not unlike when lebron james made his statement for trayvon martin when he was killed or when he said if he could dunk on anyone it would be george w. bush and he thought racism had something to do with the reaction of cleveland fans when he went to miami. you have seen a lot of little signs that says he wants to be

seen as the an advertise sis of the only player who compares with him, and that is michael jordan. jordan in 1999, he tried to decertify the union, because he felt like it didn't benefit star players enough. lebron is obviously taking a very different tact. >> david: detroit filed bankruptcy, and yet rich snyder just approved a $650 million hockey center to be built in downtown detroit. how could they possibly cut unionized municipal workers while reassuring taxpayers that they are going to fund such an expensive sports arena? >> it's the logic of

neo-liberalism taken to an idiotic extreme. we're going to rebuild our cities by handing over this money to the owner, and the idea would be, he'll use the money to create infrastructure around the area, this would create jobs, et cetera, et cetera. there's only one problem with this, and the problems are twofold. one the kinds of jobs it creates are the kinds of under $10 an hour jobs without benefits. not the kind of thing that will increase the tax base of detroit or make it easy for people who work at the arena to live inside the city limits, which of course is part of the problem. the second problem, though, and this to me is far more important

is that investing in sports arenas just don't work, because even best-case scenario, you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars put into a structure that will only be open for roughly 40 nights a year. and that's why in city after city even in the best case scenarios, at best these are basically big sponges that magically take public money and turn it into private profit. >> david: dave zirin, of the nation magazine, thanks so much for being here. your words and your perspective is always so valued. coming up next, what is the market price of fresh alaska salmon? apparent it's 3,000 tons of gold. we'll explain that next. this is "the war room." stick around. >> i know this stuff, and i love

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♪ >> david: everyone has probably heard about the keystone pipeline, but not as many people know about the pebble mine. this is explore.org footage of brooks fall near the proposed pebble mine site. it is home to the largest sockeye salmon run. salmon fishing in the watershed provides 14,000 jobs and it's a $1.5 billion industry in alaska. but a mining consortium has been trying to build massive copper and gold mine on the watershed since 2007. in 2010, members of alaskian native communities urge the epa to intervene. they responded with a study that find that the mine would likely endanger up to 500 miles of

stream and acres of wetlands. the epa's finings have had political ramifications. it allowed the obama administration to pre-emptively veto construction of the mine. the ceo wrote an op-ed for fox news demanding the process to go forward. shively argues that the epa did not consider the latest mining technology that can prevent environmental damage or the jobs it can bring to the region. this is salmon against gold, the state against the environment. joining us is taryn kiekow, from the stop pebble mine campaign.

welcome to "the war room." >> thank you for having me. >> david: okay. so this seems like another reduction -- re-dux of the kinds of things we have seen. how likely is the obama administration issue a pre-emptive veto. >> it is certainly the request that conservation groups and people of the region are making. that would be people who live there, commercial fisherman, and the people of the region banning together. it isn't so much a political issue as it is an issue of life and death up in the region, and that's what i think sets us apart from keystone. it is the end of an era for the people up in alaska and end of thousands of years of fishing

industry. so if the obama administration is very serious about the environment, which it should be, this is a prominent issue that needs to be addressed. >> david: let's look at some of the data from alaska. according to a con reserve accusation survey, 85% of commercial fisherman oppose pebble mine, and 90% say the fining industry is not capable of protecting the salmon. yet there are two against the federal veto. how do most every day alaskians feel about pebble mine? >> there is absolutely overwhelming opposition in the region. you are talking about numbers from alaska natives, over 81% from the people of the region, over 80%. these kind of numbers you don't see in opposition to anything anymore. let alone to ban together to oppose a mine as big as this.

senators have waited on the sidelines of this issue. what we have been hearing them say is let's wait for the science and the permitting process, but recently the senator issued a statement saying by waiting this long to apply for permits, pebble is creating anxiety and confusion in the region. and senator baggage has long said let's way for the science. the epa has come out with a rigorous study and found absolutely that there will be damage to the watershed, the people, the ecosystem, the salmon, and all of the wildlife that depend on it. >> david: the ceo of the mining consortium is saying his company has the technological capacity to ensure minimal damage. we hear this all the time.

he also says the mine will bring lots of jobs to the region. the question becomes can we have development like this and protect the reason at the same time. >> the evidence of mining suggests that we can't. every mine that's been built, you have their ceo's saying we can build this. we have the technology, modern engineering. this is the fine that is going to withstand it, and every single time we see accidents and failures of mines occur. there isn't a large-scale mine out there today that hasn't had an accident or failure, and what we're talking about in bristol bay is a very sensitive watershed that sup place all of the salmon and it is absolutely the worst place for any sort of accident or failure, and epa found that even without accidents, even if the mine operated perfectly, which it concedes that no mine can and does, even if it were operated

perfectly, this mine is still going to gobble up 5,000 acres of wetlands, and that's just to build the mine itself, and the giant open pit. i think what fisherman and subsistence feeders are most afraid of is that big event that could happen. this is a seismically active area, earthquakes will happen, and then what happens to the salmon. >> david: let's talk about the politics of this for one second. it's so easy to be for environmentally toxic development if you don't have to look at something. if it seems far away. however, explore.org, they have those live cams that show the bears feasting on the salmon run, that people can go to the website and just look at. how many people are watching the videos? how does that help the case

against pebble mine? does it help the case? is there development like this that we can now seen on our screens? >> i think it's visceral. just watching the bears chase all of the salmon, that is the same ecosystem that will be impacted, probably not the same bears, unless they are really free roaming, but it's the same ecosystem, and people can viscerally have a stake and see what is at stake. and i think that's the difference here. >> david: that's taryn kiekow, taryn thank you so much for joining us. coming up a man everyone wishes would just move to alaska, brett ehrlich, not because we don't like him, but because we want him to tell us what alaska looks like. he is next, and we'll be right back. ♪

they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely! >> (singing) >> i take lipitor, >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv.

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cyber war fair, they think about hacking scandals, but when you get two journalism figures in the mix it gets real, real nasty. howard kurz who was relieved of his position accused of lazy reporting, he tweeted this out . . . to which tina responded . . . >> david: oh, man. that's brutal. >> yeah, she continues surely some mistakes. so it got nasty. it's fantastic. howard kurz has responds in recent hours. we wrote i'm going to take the high road and say i'm proud of my accomplishments at the beast,

and wish tina and the rest all of the best. she did not respond, but should respond with something literally high minded which would be mr. kurz, he is dead to me. >> david: is this the kind of twitter war where you just whip out the popcorn and keep hitting refresh? >> absolutely. now vivid celeb, the adult-themed movie production house has gotten in the mix. and now it's just count down the mix until there's an adult movie with the person in question. that happened with sydney leathers. she has a new video out, and the teaser hit the website. here is what we can know.

>> i'm sydney leathers. anthony weiner and i had a sexting relationship for several months, and that came out in the press, so here i am. >> it's amazing that you can subscribe -- if you want to see the whole video, you can go to vivid celeb.com, it's only $4.50 for a three-day trial. >> sidney leathers sounds a little bit like a porn name. not that i would know. but it does sound a little bit like a name for an adult video. >> yeah, she had the name, and she is like, i might as well. >> brett as always thank for joining us here in "the war room." that's it for us here at "the war room." i'm david sirota filling in for michael shure. have a great night. "the young turks" are next. ♪

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[♪ theme music ] >> welcome to "the young turks." let's keep it real that there's a little bit of sadness here -- >> he's amazing. he is a great guest. >> what do we have in our ears -- we have "the war room" in our ear. that was sad news. kind of ruined the dramatic thing i was going to say. [ laughter ] >> someone is always in "the war room." >> you are right. but that's -- relates perfectly to the news i was