biceps curl with anthony in each arm. so if you guys go out tonight, i would please like documentation of that. >> we're going to video that for you, rachel. >> thanks. thanks a lot, lawrence. hi, levi. hi, tank. see you later. thanks to you at home. i'm going to be following them out there too. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. we've got sort of a big day of news on a day we did not expect to have this much news. here in new york city was the locus for a lot of today's news in a way that we also did not expect. lots of cities in america have like a chinatown or even a little italy. orange county, california famously has its own little saigon. but new york city, new york city is the only city in america, i think, that can pull off simultaneously having a chinatown, also a little italy, also a little saigon, also a koreatown, also a little pakistan, a little tokyo, a little panama, a little albania, a little you name it. new york city is not only diverse in its population, new york city is international in a way that no other city in the

world, let alone this country is. but still, when the united nations general assembly convenes in new york city, even in a city like new york, you feel it. and you feel it not just because of all the traffic that it causes but because there is a sudden international influx of world leaders and their entourages and their issues. even the protests change. new york city always has protests. but it's only when the u.n. is in session that we have something like this, an anti-iran, russia, china, syria protest being led by activists from egypt, iran, palestine, syria, tunisia, and yemen. in terms of protests inside the u.n., though, this year was a particularly good year for what's come to be known as the annual walk out on mahmoud day. this happens every year. the president of iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, stands up to give a speech. shirt, jacket, no tie. he's very short. he gets up to give his speech. he starts denying the holocaust. he starts demonizing america.

now he's also a 9/11 truther, for the record. and every year like clockwork when he does that speech in that suit and that shirt with no tie this happens. >> while the president of iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, was giving his speech to the general assembly, a walkout took place. dozen of delegates, as you see there, led by the u.s. they gathered their stuff and with some drama they walked out. the reason why they walked out, his speech called the u.s. slavemasters and colonial masters. then he went after the rest of the allies. then he talked about the "mysterious september 11th incident." for him it was more or less the usual stuff. but it was too much for some of the delegates. >> this is quickly becoming a new york city tradition. this year's mahmoud walkout day was particularly good. as you saw there. but i mean last year's mahmoud walkout day was a classic too. remember? there was ahmadinejad starting his annual speech. right? jacket, shirt, no tie.

and then, oh, look at that. there go the u.s. diplomats. followed shortly thereafter by the brits, by the spaniards, by the swedes. yeah, the spaniards. the swedes. and oh, heck, eventually the entire european union as well. there were actually two mahmoud walkouts in 2010. a few months before that one you just saw there was ahmadinejad starting another speech at the u.n., this time wearing glasses. and then look at that, yep, there they go. there go all the diplomats. this is sort of the diplomatic equivalent of a one finger, middle finger salute. everybody sort of pensivelypack packs up their briefcases and then they try to plan their means of walking out of the room so that it is as ostentatious as possible. never walk away from the podium, for example, when you can walk toward it before breaking to one side to leave the room. of course, nothing will ever top the mahmoud walkout day from 2009. this was also at the u.n. but it was in geneva. i don't know if it's just that room or whatever, but mahmoud walkout in geneva 2009 was perfect.

>> for the dire consequences. [ cheers and applause ] >> that was definitely the best walkout ever. the guy stopping and taking a picture of him from like three feet away from him at the end of the aisle, oh, i love the walkout on the iranian president time of year. president obama addressed the u.n. general assembly yesterday morning. and then he started an entire day of bilateral meetings with other world leaders, including crucially the prime minister of israel and the head of the palestinian authority. tonight diplomats are still trying to avert a request for statehood by the palestinians at the united nations tomorrow. as president obama was engaged in those meetings, an entire day of speeches by other world

leaders unfolded in front of the main body of the u.n. and aside from the diplomatic awkwardness that is the hallmark of international gatherings like this, there was one other very specific bit of awkwardness brought on by the fact that the u.n. is located here in new york city. because the other thing that new york city is in america, aside from being our nation's largest population center and the most international of all u.s. cities, new york city also has the greatest concentration of american zillionaires. and while the leaders of nations like lebanon and equatorial guinea and estonia were speaking yesterday at the u.n., the magazine "forbes" simultaneously released its list of the 400 richest individual people in america. and some of those people as individuals have a larger personal net worth than the economies of entire countries like, say, lebanon, equatorial guinea, or estonia. some american individual people have more money than some individual entire countries.

one of the big headlines out of the "forbes" 400 list this year is for charles and david koch, the koch brothers. their father, of course, invented a way to turn oil into gasoline. they inherited dad's company. and importantly, they did not take it public. it is a private company. which means that anything the company makes redo you understand redounds to them as individuals. their net worth jumping by more than 40% in the past year. the koch brothers are up to $50 billion in personal wealth right now. and that means as of this year charles and david koch as two people have more money than the gdp of sri lanka, slovenia, bulgaria, oman, tunisia, guatemala, uruguay, lebanon, serbia, uz zn, lithuania, costa rica, and all of the other countries that you see scrolling by you right now. if the koch brothers wanted to like buy samoa, not the cookie but the country, samoa's gdp is $565 million, which means that

the koch brothers could personally buy roughly 88 samoas and still have change left over. the koch brothers -- look at the countries -- okay. the koch brothers have done really, really great with the oil and chemical conglomerate they inherited from their dad. it was the second largest privately held company in the entire country. over the last few years their combined net worth as two people has skyrocketed from $34 billion in 2007 to $50 billion now. they have always been rich, and i mean really rich. but in the last five years the koch brothers' network has been swelling like a broken ankle. it has been an awesome, awesome time for them as two men. but during that time koch industries, the company, the source of their wealth, has seen something a little different happen. here's how employment levels have changed at koch industries during this same time period. koch industries has shed employees. by the tens of thousands. as the koch brothers have gotten personally billions and billions

and billions of dollars richer. wait a minute, though. i thought rich people were the job creators. in corporations, the job creators, right? the koch brothers are rich people. and they privately hold this corporation. and yet the more money they seem to make, the fewer americans they seem to employ. now, there's no reason to single out the koch brothers on that front. i mean, it is illustrative to do so. but this is basically the story of corporations and of rich people in the country right now. as corporate profits are sky high right now, as america's biggest corporations are seeing profits 26% higher than they were a year ago, we know from the unemployment figures that those profits are not translating into jobs for americans. for a company like exxonmobil, for example, that is sort of how it's been in recent years, as exxonmobil has seen its revenue go up and up and up and up and oh, my god. the deficit and the fiscally disastrous legacy of the bush tax cuts that mostly benefited the richest people in this

country. as democrats have talked about dealing with those problems by increasing the amount of taxes that rich people pay, congressional republicans have responded by calling rich people job creators. if you are rich, you are by definition a job creator to today's republicans. and that is very cute, to be called a job creator. but again, rich people are doing astonishingly well right now. and that does not appear to be translating into them hiring lots of people. although if you ask the koch brothers-funded group americans for prosperity, "we know that decreasing taxation and regulatory burdens on job creators and innovators is the only policy design that has ever lifted people out of poverty, spurred economic growth, and created jobs." this is the basic economic fight right now in the country. the right, including the conservative groups bankrolled by charles and david koch trying to make the case that the richest people in the country and corporations are the key to

the economy. that although they admittedly are doing really awesome right now, if they could just do a little more awesome, if we could just figure out some way to cut their taxes and let them make more profit that will result in there being more jobs for other people and everything being better for everybody. corporate tax cuts and tax cuts for very, very rich people like the koch brothers will, in the words of americans for prosperity, "lift people out of poverty." or at least it will help them build the pile of $50 billion they are already sitting on int an already bigger pile while their company keeps laying people off. on the other side are the democrats and the almost united front they are finally getting around to showing for the president's jobs agenda, which does include this very populist message. >> would you rather that the oil companies get to keep their tax loopholes? or would you rather make sure that we're hiring thousands of construction workers to rebuild america?

would you rather keep in place special tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires? or would you say let's get teachers back in the classroom so our children can learn? now, the republicans, when i talked about this earlier in the week, they said, well, this is class warfare. you know what? if asking a billionaire to pay their fair share of taxes, to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what? i'm a warrior for the middle class. i'm happy to fight for the middle class. i'm happy to fight for working people. >> that basic policy idea apparently is stupefying to the pundit class and to the beltway media, who cannot believe how far obama is going out on a limb by campaigning on something like this.

the policy of raising tax on the wealthiest americans is a policy supported by huge majorities of the american people, including something like 70% to 80% of people who describe themselves as moderates. this is a really popular idea. and every democrat in the country can run on this very popular idea. and democrats who are good at articulating this idea i think will run on this idea to great effect. por ejemplo. >> i have all this -- well, this is class warfare, whatever. no. there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. you built a factory out there. good for you. but i want to be clear. you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

you didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did. now, look. you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, god bless. keep a big hunk of it. but part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay it forward for the next kid who comes along. >> the right wing is circulating that video today as if it is something that looks bad. i think they are believing their own rhetoric about what people think about ideas like that. i think the more that gets circulated the better people like elizabeth warren and other people with that message are going to do with a broad swath of americans left, right, and center. elizabeth warren is probably the democrats' best communicator on economic issues other than maybe president obama himself. she is now running for the united states senate in massachusetts against the number one recipient of hedge fund

industry contributions in the entire country, republican senator scott brown. elizabeth warren has been in that race in massachusetts for about a week. she is now leading scott brown. scott brown previously thought to have an absolutely impenetrable positive approval rating in massachusetts. but as of right now, as of the most recent poll, elizabeth warren ahead by two. populist economic messaging tends to work for democrats. is you've got people like elizabeth warren out there running on that. you've got president obama out there running on that. you've even got rich guy warren buffett now being drafted to go campaign for president obama on this issue starting next month. this is the fight going on in the country right now. these are the two sides. koch brothers and the republicans on the rich people just need more side, and the democrats pushing the tax the rich, warren buffett rule on the other side. here's the thing, though. here's the thing that's new this week that you need to know. on that new "forbes" 400 list, the koch brothers combined are now a lot richer than warren buffett.

many billions of dollars richer. game off p.

in front of the a bridge between ohio and kentucky president obama was kind of fired up today. did you see this? >> we used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in america. we're the country that built the intercontinental railroad, the interstate highway system. we built the hoover dam. we built the grand central station. so how can we now sit back and let china build the best railroads? and let europe build the best highways. and have singapore build a nicer airport. at a time when we've got millions of unemployment construction workers out there just ready to get on the job,

ready to do the work, of rebuilding america. so cincinnati, we are better than that. we're smarter than that. and that's why i sent congress the american jobs act ten days ago. >> i have to say i've got kind of a crush on the crowd. pep rally applause over infrastructure and our pride in the hoover dam. am i dreaming? chris hayes, host of msnbc's new weekend show "up with chris hayes," joins us for that next.

a bridge that needs repair.

a bridge that runs between ohio and kentucky, the two states where the top two republicans in congress come from. today president obama tried sort of a reverse double axel version of " gorbachev, tear down this wall." >> mr. boehner, mr. mcconnell, help us rebuild this bridge. help us rebuild america. help us put construction workers back to work. pass this bill. let's pass the bill. >> cincinnati, i have a crush on you. i'm telling you. president obama continuing his national barnstorming for his jobs bill today. symbolically putting the top

republicans in congress on the spot for where he chose to give the speech today. and it's worth noting that for all the consternation in the beltway press, in the pundit class, for president obama being confrontational with republicans about what it is he wants, for all the speculation that the president isn't really like this and he's just doing these sorts of speeches and taking this sort of tack on this issue because he's being forced to politically, for all of that beltway noise it is worth noting that when you see the president out on the speech giving these kinds of speeches he kind of seems to be enjoying himself these days. >> the idea for a big boost in construction is supported by the afl-cio, but it's also supported by the chamber of commerce. those two don't get along on much. but they agree we should rebuild america. >> so my question is, what's congress waiting for? why has it taken so long? now, the bridge behind us just happens to connect the state

that's home to the speaker of the house. with the home state of the republican leader in the senate. now, that's just a coincidence. it's purely accidental that that happened. but part of the reason i came here is mr. boehner and mr. mcconnell, those are the two most powerful republicans in government. they can either kill this jobs bill or they can help pass this jobs bill. >> republicans are accusing the president now of campaigning. rrr. when he gives speeches like this now. maybe so. but if so, he really seems to be having a good time while he is doing it.

joining us now is chris hayes, host of the new and already great "up with chris hayes," which airs weekend mornings here on msnbc. chris is also editor at large of "the nation" magazine. good to see you, sir. i'm just barely recovered from that sunday morning. >> you were splendid. i saw some things on the internet about how you had had a long night earlier. some reporting on that topic. >> yeah. should we talk about that? no, we probably shouldn't. >> we should talk about the president. >> that's right. the president. let me ask you about both the style and the substance here. i actually think it's noteable, even though i'm not a body why language expert, pundit. i think it's notable the president seems to be having a good time. not shushing the crowd, for example, when they are booing the names mcconnell and boehner. and even previously when we've seen him campaign he'd say now, now, don't boo, everybody be nice. he's not doing that. >> that is a great observation. and i think that there's a tendency in commentary in

politics to be what we call in economics pro-cyclical. which is when the president is doing poorly everyone rushes to talk about how he's terrible and listless and has no leadership qualities and the ron suskind book comes out saying the same, and then everyone piles on and you forget, you get this weird induced amnesia. it's an extremely deft, confident politician. and this internal logic, his approval ratings are down, the economy is bad, and everyone's like what's happened to -- he's right there. that is a very good, able, amazingly powerful politician. and i think in some ways he has been not using his superpowers for a lot of his time in office. i don't know why, frankly. i'm not inside the president's head. i think it's a strategic choice about the best way to accomplish legislative ends was not to induce confrontation. but for whatever reason, they have chosen a different strategy. and this strategy puts him much closer to the kind of barack

obama that i think a lot of people felt very, very deeply enthusiastic about in the campaign. >> the professional left, in the words of robert gibbs, the both liberal pundits such as me and you and also i think the president's most articulate and loudest supporters both online and in the print press have been arguing for a more confrontational tone from the president for some time. now that the president is doing it, do you think that was good advice? >> yes, i do, actually. and i think it was good advice in this respect. we can't lose sight of the fact that the policy he is urging, which is higher taxes on the highest earner, is remarkably popular. this is something that is the most popular means of deficit reduction. 80%. it's popular among republicans. it's actually relatively popular among tea party folks. okay? so it's not majority support but it has a higher -- >> it's majority support among everybody but republicans and it's not that low among republicans. >> that's right. shockingly low among republicans. i think people -- look, i think

they understand there is nothing else getting through this congress and whatever was done in the past where they had to sort of conserve this kind of confrontational capital, pick their spots when they were going to battle because they would get mitch mcconnell spooked or someone spooked and they would blow up the whole deal, those days are gone, right? what you have to do is lay down markers and draw clear distinctions. and that's what they're doing. and yes, i think it's effective politics. >> briefly, do you think that democrats are sort of getting with the program or do you think we're going to see consistent sort of mary landrieu sort of splitting from the -- >> this is the huge open question on this precise issue. will the democrats in congress and particularly the senate understand that the strategy is essentially an all or nothing strategy, it's kind of like shooting the moon. so you cannot undermine shooting the moon or you end up in the worst possible situation. right? so the worst situation is for the president to be leading and

drawing clear distinctions and to have people of his own party muddying the waters on that and messing up the distinctions. they're either with him or against him to invoke a phrase from a previous president in a different context. and i think the sooner they understand that the better. >> do you think they will understand that in. >> i don't know. mary landrieu. >> yeah. mary landrieu -- >> a mystery wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a lot of oil money in that state. >> mary landrieu, you are very welcome on the show if you want to talk about that or any other issues. for real. chris hayes, ertd at large of "the nation" and the host of "up with chris hayes," which is an excellent show, and i would say that even if you weren't my friend. congratulations on your success. it's great. >> awesome to have you. i really enjoyed it. >> thanks, chris. the key, the heart, the catalyst of the best new thing in the world today coming up at the end of the show is acting. the imitation of life. thespians. all in the name of social equality. that's just ahead.

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because when you -- >> not only my own experience, but i mean most experts will tell you that when enough physical pain is inflicted on someone they'll tell you anything they think that you want to know. but i'm very worried about the image of the united states of america engaging in this kind of activity. it's not -- i hold no brief for the terrorists. they are the quintessence. i hope they never get out of jail, the evil ones. but it's not about them. it's about us. >> it's not about them. it's about us. senator john mccain, who survived torture personally in vietnam, speaking back in 2005 about his belief that it does not really matter why you want to torture someone or whether it works in some way to torture someone. senator mccain consistently over the years making the most robust moral argument against torture, which is that there's nothing about the person being tortured that tells you whether or not torturing them is the right thing to do. his point is that we as americans should not as americans be doing torture to anyone.

and that's because of who we are, not who they are. vice president dick cheney, of course, argued the opposite. vice president cheney argued and continues to argue that torture is justified, that it shouldn't even be called torture because of who the united states did it to. >> you've heard endlessly about waterboarding. it happened to three terrorists. to call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who have saved american lives and to cast terrorists and murderers as innocent victims. >> is it not torture if it is done to bad people or if it is useful in some way? there's now a new national debate about the death penalty after a prisoner named troy davis was put to death by the state of georgia last night more than four hours after his scheduled time of death on the fourth day that had been set as his execution date. the consternation and controversy over troy davis's execution centered on doubts of his guilt. 7 of the 9 witnesses whose testimony was used to convict him have reportedly recanted. three of the jurors who

convicted him say now that they would not have voted to convict if they'd known then what they know now about the case. when troy davis's execution was delayed last night at 7:00 p.m. eastern in georgia, the state of texas at the exact same time went ahead with killing a prisoner named wlurns lawrence brewer. they killed lawrence brewer for the racist hate crime murder of james byrd in texas in 1998. there was no question as to lawrence brewer's guilt. tonight the state of alabama killed a prisoner named derrick mason for a murder in 1994. the judge who sentenced derrick mason to die lobbied against the execution. the judge saying that he actually ruled incorrectly in the case and mr. mason should not be killed by the state. although there is that controversy over mr. mason's sentence, there is no basic question about derrick mason's guilt. today the state of georgia, about half a day after they killed troy davis, set their next execution date on october 5th for marcus ray johnson for a murder he committed in 1994. marcus ray johnson contends that he had bad legal representation

in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there's no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it's not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. tools. is a job that requires set of tools to kill troy davis last night. thstate had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had imported it illegally from a fly by night drug distributor based out of the back of a driving school in west london. so instead of sodium pentothal, which the state used for decades to kill its prisoners, georgia has recently been using a drug with the trade name nembutol to kill its prisoners instead,

including troy davis last night. nembutol is a drug veterinarians use to put down household pets. the danish company that makes nembutol argues that it should not be used in execution of humans. the u.s. company that makes sodium pentothal contacted us at msnbc wanting us to know that even though they don't make their drug that is used to kill prisoners anymore they also did not want their drug used in executions and year after year the company says it wrote to state departments of correction telling them to stop using sodium pentothal to kill people. it is understandable that a big company really does not want to be associated with planned killings in prisons. but we all are. we all pay the salaries of the people who do this work in our name. joining us now for the interview tonight is dr. alan alt, the former warden from the georgia prison where troy davis was executed last night. he also served as commissioner of corrections for three states. he's currently the dean of the college of justice and safety at

eastern kentucky university.of waens who wrote to correction fishlz officials and the governor of georgia yesterday urging them to reconsider their decision to deny troy davis clemency and to consider the effect on corrections staff who would be carrying this execution out. dr. alt, thank you for joininging us in our coverage late last night, and thank you for coming back tonight. i really appreciate it, sir. >> yes, ma'am. >> as a warden and later as a commissioner of corrections in georgia you participated in several executions early in your career. you told us last night that you view executions as a form of premeditated -- premeditated killing, premeditated murder. what made you think about it that way? >> well, it's -- the policy book for execution's probably about an inch and a half thick. it is well scripted. there's a lot of rehearsals. i don't know of any other type

of murder that is that premeditated or even scripted. everybody involved knows exactly what they're to do and exactly what's going to happen and how that individual's going to be killed. >> in this letter that you and a number of other retired corrections officials sent out yesterday you wrote about what you described as awful lifelong repercussions that come from participating in the execution of prisoners. i know we discussed this late last night, but i'm wondering if you could tell our viewers now, if you could describe what participating in the -- in executions as a process is like for prison staff. >> well, i assume that it's different for different people. but certainly i can speak from my experience and other individuals who've talked to me.

people who have a conscience. you're killing somebody. and there's no denying that. and especially when we know that several people have been declared innocent with the new scientific techniques, and we're not real sure if the individual we're executing this evening or next week is really guilty. and that in itself, that kind of doubt. the other thing most of us know all the research which indicates that capital punishment does not deter. and it seems so illogical to say to the public we do not want you to kill, and to demonstrate that we're going to kill individuals. >> the man who was killed last night in texas in the same hour that troy davis had been assigned to be killed initially, the son of the man who that

prisoner murdered, james byrd's son, had said that he did not want the death penalty carried out against his father's murderer. last night troy davis's alleged victim's family said they did want him executed for the death of officer mark macphail in georgia. do the wishes of victims' families i guess inflect in any way your feeling about having participated in executions or generally the way that staff do this, the way they feel about it, do you think? >> no. i think the victim's feelings should be taken into account. and in every execution that i attended i spent time with the victim's family. we didn't allow them to go to the execution. but they usually were in the prison. and we had them separated from the witnesses. and i spent time with them and the chaplain spent time with them. and i talked to them after the execution, and sometimes several

weeks after the execution also. and most of the victims' families that i talked with, they thought they were going to get a lot of relief or closure from the execution. and in most cases they did not. >> dr. allen ault, former warden from the georgia prison where troy davis was executed last night, former state commissioner of corrections in georgia and in colorado and mississippi, sir, i feel like your perspective on this, it's not only invaluable to us in terms of covering this, but your decision to write to corrections officials last night and put this into words before thaex koougs was a real act of bravery and made some very powerful arguments. so thank you for doing that, sir, and thanks for talking with us. >> thank you. >> all right. republicans in congress say they would like to pay for disaster relief by taking money from other government programs. house democrats are saying no way to that. and now apparently we are facing another possible government shutdown crisis over this.

the latest on that pshl crisis coming up straight ahead on "the ed show." and also coming up here, the best new thing in the world. sorely needed.

we're going to -- >> after about 40 minutes of frantic digging, this. a newborn puppy free at last. >> all right.

they do not exactly tell you this in tv school, but if you can lead with a puppy rescue, lead with the puppy rescue. and this puppy rescue even leads to politics, which we love, because this puppy, who is fine now. really, i swear. leads to texas governor rick perry. the republican governor joined the presidential race last month after saying he felt called to run by a higher power. mr. perry has also issued his own calls to a higher power. in april the governor called the people of the lone star state to spend three days praying for the "healing of our land, for rain to end the record drought that has plagued texas month after month." and that created the back yard crack that swallowed up that poor puppy. governor perry has also called the whole nation to prayer, this time for the healing of our country, for fixes to problems like our economy. that call for prayer that's center endorsed by a list of very

conservative christian luminaries. like this person who might now be getting famous for what she described as the effect on birds in arkansas, of repealing don't ask don't tell. >> the black birds fell to the ground in beebe, arkansas. the governor's's name, and there was something put out of, a, a called don't ask, don't tell by a governor. this was proposed bill clinton. and so could there be a connection between this passage where, now that we have the repeal of the don't ask, don't tell. it could be because we've said it's okay for people who commit these kinds of acts to be recognized, you know, in our military for the first time in our history. there is a potential that there is something that actually happened in the land where 100,000 drum fish died. and also, where these birds just fell out of the air.

>> that is cindy jacobs, a self-described prophet and faith healer. she also exorcises gay demons and she interprets. a prominently featured endorser, rick perry's stadium event worked. we don't know yet about the whole nation but texas, at least, she assures us was in fact healed by rick perry's stadium day of prayer. >> we found some areas very, very violent, because the former culture was a murderous -- like in texas here, and all the coasts, around houston and galveston, some of the that area. the native-american people were cannibals and they ate people. you could see the manifestation of that in the churches where people turned against people and kind of cannibalized other people's ministries. there has been a lot of prayer over that in houston, texas.

they've done a lot of intercession over that and broke the curses on the land. and we just had a prayer meeting a week ago. the governor of texas, really as an individual, instigated this. 35,000 people showed up to pray and it was only a prayer meeting called within three months. a three-month period of time. what happened? the land is starting to rejoice, you see, because of that prayer. >> the land of texas starting to rejoice because of rick perry's stadium prayer event in houston. with all due respect, since rick perry's stadium prayer event in houston, texas has been quite literally on fire. nearly four weeks after the prayer meeting, governor rick perry reupped his wildfire disaster proclamation for the ninth time for every county in texas. hundreds of home were lost just in september. the worst of it seems to be over now but there were 65 new wildfires in the last week alone in texas. and texas has not only been burping, it is still locked in its terrible historic drought. to make it all worse, we have since had it confirmed that

texas endured the hottest summer ever recorded in the united states. texas has been so hot and so parched that they have teen rescuing texas' fish. wildlife biologists last week evacuated fish from the river, wading out into the salty mess with shiners so they do take them to safety at the state hatchery because there is not enough water in the river to keep them alive anymore. and as you know, texas has been so hot and dry that this little puppy fell into a hole in the yard where the ground had cracked open. it took the animal rescue squad to dig him out. then he went back to his mama with a budge of little puppies. squeals for one that i cannot bear to play a second time. maybe in a minute. while we're on the subject, on tuesday, tens of thousands of bees swarmed a university of texas gofl tournament. they had to kansas tell final round which meant kansas won. people there will stop to dig a

puppy out of ground. but if cindy jacobs thinks it has led to the land rejoice bigg chasing often the cannibal spirits, i protest. along with the puppy in the drought crack. who is fine. adorable, tiny and thirsty, but fine. 8gg@ú

let me go down to point four. you say countries that legalize same sex marriage saw alarming moral decay. do you see that? >> yes. >> you say netherlands legalized gay marriage in 2001. to that date, incest and polygamy became legal. do you see that? >> yes. >> did you agree with that, sir? >> yes. >> you believe that after the netherlands legalized same sex marriage, the netherlands went

on to legalize polygamy and incest. >> it does not say one caused the other to happen. it shows the moral decay of a liberal country and the views of sex. >> what you are saying here is that after same sex marriage was legalized, the netherlands legalized incest and polygamy. now whether that was a casual -- that was casual or not, you're saying that's what happened after same sex marriage was legalized. correct, sir? same sex marriage. >> yeah. look at the date. polygamy happens afterwards. >> who told you that? where did you get that idea? >> it's on the internet. >> it's on the internet. also, it is not true, but it is on the internet. how can this be? your anti-gay marriage experts at work, america. that was just one of the many jaw-dropping moments from california's trial over its anti-gay marriage proposition 8.

what you just saw was a re-enactment of that trial. based on the transcript that was posted at marriagetrial.com. the best new thing in the world today is that a federal judge has now ruled that the real actual videotapes of the real actual prop 8 trial should be unsealed and released to the public. unless that decision gets reversed on appeal, that means we will soon get to see the real people who the prop 8 trial actors were portraying. now, i have a feeling the actors acting out the transcript will end up being more fun than the real deal, but who knows? the fact that we will finally get to find out for ourselves is the best thing in the world today. that does it for us. havoc on the hill. house republicans nearly pass a new version of a stop gap spending bill which senate democrats say is dead on arrival. the big sell-off, wall street free falls