vitter had to apologize today to m.s.n. b.c. host rachel maddow for comments that he made on a radio show last week and here's what got him in trouble. senator vitter is showing us this morning you should do that too oh we should we should go further back on the high school yearbook oh i. call you know old rachel maddow they had a picture of her. looking like a woman yes it was really bizarre that's. going on. now vitter was joking about a photo of rachel maddow from high school photo a viral last week and vitter just couldn't help himself by bashing her during a juvenile radio interview if you know rachel is a lesbian she's very open about her life so since she's a lesbian vitter had to resort to some high school humor about her only looking like a woman years ago and not today since she's gay and has short hair i just love the

g.o.p. right wing gay haters but anyway aside from that does vitter really to make fun of anybody's sex life as he forgot about his own sex scandal when with the d.c. madam and allegations that he's into wearing diapers and vitter who ran as a family values candidate was connected to a high profile madam here in washington a few years ago and a new orleans madam also said that vitter was a client at her brothel brothels get it brothels are nothing new for politicians but this grown man was in a wearing diapers and that's something that whole never be able to shake off at least rachel can grow her hair out and that's why tonight's tool time winner is senator david diaper wearing better. now there seems to be one word that sums up the u.s. as favorite new method of defense drones these weapons were designed to protect our own military and made warfare much less dangerous and much less expensive but as

our t. correspondent guy in chicken reports these predator drones are causing more trouble than they are good. they come out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones. you will never see it coming a drone is ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain is the perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all and things do go wrong studies by independent international experts suggest that for every militant killed as many as fifteen civilians also die there's no way of getting exact numbers the cia keeps its drones program under wraps but the united nations and other international organizations question the legality of the extensive use of the weapon it becomes

different when you come to a sort of undeclared war with organizations which. like ok you know the taleban and you go off to push and you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proven that the person you're actually targeting are terrorists. they're not they're not in uniform but humanitarian concerns seem to be doing little to dampen surging international demand for groans also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or u.a.e. vs the military appetite is such that the market is expected to grow to a staggering fifty five billion dollars in ten years from now with the advances in technology they depersonalize warfare and so therefore you have people war willing to use them and you have people that don't understand the consequences because the people who are flying the drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the

plane they're thousands of miles away and when they cause destruction they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb of cia drone operator don't wake up in the morning with your family goodbye come to the office and shoot at a target thousands of miles away from here and go back home and no risk will forward pressure to say the whole operation reminds of b.t.o. game the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient will this always tempting to wait more and more in the future if war is cheap why not use the before especially against the smaller countries and organizations to each other case you would try to sit around with table were to talk it over simon vets' him and has produced a research report on drones for the european parliament among his concerns are the consequences of terrorists getting hold of such weapons a scenario sunlight likened to real life but deadly robot morris demonstrators

outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people out of fueling rather than quelling insurgency gonna shake out. r t washington d.c. . well pakistan is one of the countries where u.s. drone use is most prevalent where the population is becoming increasingly skeptical of this western country strategies and intentions so how is the u.s. trying to fix their bad reputation and wipe the slate clean of civilian deaths money of course u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton wasn't pakistan last few days and unveiled five hundred million dollars in aid projects all part of a five year seven point five billion dollars package deal but can this really help win over the people and can this convince the country to get tough on militant groups like the kani network we're here to discuss it with me is ravi

a choudhry research associate at the institute for social policy and understanding rob thanks so much for being here. tell me this does pakistan because part of hillary's speech while she is there is of course saying that the u.s. wants this to be a long term partnership but there are not just there for the afghanistan war in there out and then they'll never ever hear from them again like of this bad boy that's going to leave you just pakistan actually believe that they think that there is this a long term relationship to be built here well it depends on when you say pakistan what you're referring to if you're talking about the pakistani military the pakistani government or the pakistani civil society pakistani military is more on the same page as they unite the u.s. military you know but the street to do to dialogue that's taking place between us and pakistan is more. trying to build a good relationship between the two countries for long term rather than just trying to say that ok we're not going to leave you like we did the last time and this

mistrust you're absolutely right exists between the people and that's where the lack of communication is the public level at the civil society level so whether the u.s. has been able to achieve this hillary clinton's. visit has been able to achieve that goal. the civilians or the ordinary citizens if they agree with that i would have to say no because i was just in pakistan conducting research for a month and in my interviews with parliamentarians and ordinary citizens an analyst thinking analyst what i found out was that he said that the u. has has done this before they have given the development aid but whenever it suited them but whenever it didn't suit them they actually left so they're actually skeptic whether ok is us in there for a long term is that going to stay but you know it shouldn't overshadow what has been done to carry lugar bill. is unprecedented even at the best of the times

between the partnership of u.s. pakistan partnership there was no such bill that gave development aid to pakistan and not the ordinary military aid so i mean that should not be overshadowed and the strategic dialogue is definitely a step towards the right direction my question is if there is so much development aid that's been given if now they start building up all these new projects do the well the pakistani people the civilian population will they know where that came from will the government tell them that this is thanks to u.s. aid and to the kerry lugar bill or are they thinking that this is their own government that's building up for them well here's the funny thing pakistan missed the pakistani population mistrusts the u.s. government as much as they mistrust the pakistani government so there's not that much legitimacy or of trust and the government either now you're absolutely right about the. you know there's been projects that for whatever reasons that's been done better there's a problem with the aid over branding and you know there's

a lot of what two of the successful universities in pakistan a lot of people may not know about a lot more university of management sciences and look more and a university in karachi were actually started because of u.s. money and a lot of people don't know about that that's where it came from so it's all about playing having a balancing act where u.s. aid should say ok this is where we are helping you and all of that has to do with before you know you give the money it's the giving the money is just part of the solution you know it's all about building trust and when you do that you need to have local partnership you have to involve the local people you have to say ok for example electricity is a big problem right now i when i was in pakistan there were power outages for twelve hours out of twenty four hours a day so that is something that's clear and present danger other than the extremism that pakistanis are also fighting on the other hand but if the u.s. comes steps in and helps the pakistanis counter these kind of problems then yeah that's going to put us a notch higher than what it is right now but it's

a long term commitment to long term process and it's not going to be successful in one year or one day why do you think the u.s. wants to whether or not they want to why they say that they want to have this long term commitment why do they want to build trust is it simply because at the moment they feel like if pakistan is on their side that they can actually help fight extremism and terrorism or is it because they know that pakistan is going to be a big power player in the region once the u.s. finally withdraws out of afghanistan they're really going to need them later well both of those things yes they're true i mean that's a paradox because you know like if you look at historical political systems you want to have economic development it all goes like you know if you have electricity economic development education then the historic history suggests that. it should lead towards democracy and democracy makes a country stable of course a practice that a stable pakistan is something that u.s. and the rest of the world would want because it's the only muslim nuclear power

nuclear country so of course like you know you want a stable pakistan no matter what so to help pakistan with that and this partnership is not just didn't start from two thousand and one you know like pakistan has been a partner of us for a long before that so but to build that trust us that's important for us for that reason too and for the pakistanis like you said it's important because you know like afghanistan pakistan and the united states has ordered he talked about the withdrawal date and the pakistanis are. kind of confused as to what's going to happen in the region what their role is going to be in afghanistan what india's role is going to be in that region so of course they would want that for that reason very quickly just tell me how does the media cover this trip right now by hillary clinton what do they say and they say that she's here with a smile and a shack trying to buy off the people or do they actually believe that she's there to build a different diplomatic relationship it's actually in mixed kind of a response what i have seen in the pakistani media so far it's been ok i hillary

clinton is here she's giving the five hundred million dollars and for development and some really good projects in the power sector like i said in the education sector but at the same time she also made some comments about. if there is extremism then there is going to be tension between the relationship of the two countries or that she wants access to some of bin laden or and omar and to go after the haqqani network in the north waziristan region so that people look at it ok yeah it's great that you're giving us money and we need it but at the same time it comes with the strings that are. and that's of course of people would like that but at the same time seven point five billion is absolutely not chump change thank you so much for being here i don't think you are we've still got one more segment ahead on tonight's show coming up. assisted suicides will debate the issue the causes are strong emotions on both sides of the conversation and is america too focused on

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a billboard in new jersey has been causing quite a stir it says my life i death my choice of fifteen by forty nine billboard

went up on june twenty eighth and was paid for by the final exit network a nationwide group that provides guidance to adults seeking to end a life of constant pain from incurring illness it's advocating for what some call the right to die but it also advocating taking away someone's right to live joining me is gauging mcquade assistant director for policy and communications and secretary to pro-life activities at the u.s. conference of catholic bishops thanks so much for being here and when you look at this billboard here what exactly is it that bothers you about it. it's a slogan of the right to die movement really saying that it's all about my life my death my choice and i would say that this is a human issue this is not just a religious issue although a lot of people want to put it in those categories but really when it comes right down to it most people who are either sick or depressed or otherwise.

afraid of living or dying may be may be discouraged by this sign rather than empowered by it they may be tempted to resort to taking their own life when they never would have crossed their mind in the first place but can't be also maybe be empowered by it at the same time to know that they do have the right to choose that they're not just you know a pawn that someone gets to play with i mean after all this is america we have the freedom of speech so what makes the sign any worse than the others that well you certainly have a freedom of speech but there's no such thing as the right to suicide the right to ending one's own life or life is a gift a life is given. to us isn't in our life to are we living it that's very appealing rhetoric but it appeals to us because we're afraid of dying were afraid of as you said earlier into. pain intractable situations where we're out of control

and we're suffering. more what i'm going to offer why should i suffer if my life is miserable if i know for a fact that i have an incurable disease why should i suffer through it if i have the choice to leave this earth that's an excellent question but the proper response i would say a truly compassionate response is the word compassion is to suffer with somebody who is compassionate doesn't seek to assist or facilitate bringing an end to the suffering through the violent means of suicide taking one's own life is a violent act whether it's done with a gun with a bag of helium over one's had a smile final exit network advocates. what one does is suffer with the person going through that alleviate their suffering kill the pain not the patient who's going through that but i think killing the pain killing themselves is how the patient if that's how they want to deal with it it's one thing if you're telling somebody that if this is the patient's choice i think it's a very painful thing for anybody that knows them anyone that loves them their

friends their family it's really sad to see someone go and often these are the people that don't want to go at the end so in a way they're suffering with them because they're letting them they're letting them go it's not a passive thing it's a very active thing it's hastening death during the values to go they're not allowing them to bring it about in a very active way most people who have suicidal ideation consider suicide. that suffering is something that we can care for something we can alleviate if it's physical pain we can provide palliative care it's only in a very small minority of cases where that palliative care is not sufficient and at times that palliative care may have the unwittingly the effect of pacing that person's death but not because you're seeking to kill the person you're trying to treat them and care for them now part of the problem with final exit network is they say that they do psychological screening making sure people have the capacity to make this choice for themselves but in reality in the practice that's not always

the case unfortunately in final exit network it's not being covered by a lot of the news media is actually under criminal indictment right now some of their members who have served as they call them exit guides are actually being how the criminal cases i don't see the civil case there is a slippery slope when it comes to the people that are doing this in the company that does it but what i don't understand is why the government why anyone else would be able to tell me how i'm allowed to to live my life or to end my life. you know i feel like what are they basing it on the use sad that my life is a gift but a gift from whom life is a gift. it's a gift that we don't have any control over as much as we would like to actually most of the laws of the united states have protective laws against suicide there are suicide prevention networks and it's interesting there's a double standard when it comes to suicide prevention everyone's for teen suicide prevention but when it comes to people who are toward the end of their life or who

have been sick or might be want to take matters into their own hands if they've somehow lived what we consider a full life somehow it's ok for them to commit suicide but not for the young because that's a tragedy i think it's interesting this network wants to ask questions of people aren't asking and i think that's one of the why is there a double standard with regard to suicide sometimes it's a tragedy sometimes it's welcome and to be even perhaps according to this organization. the assumption would be if you or that far into your years you're probably wiser you've probably lived a full life like you said and at that point you're more apt to be able to decide whether you're done with the life or not life comes to a natural and whether we want that or not and i would say that death with authentic dignity is grounded in the dignity that our life has just inherently we don't earn it we don't lose it as we lose our capacity or as our as our you know words of what it is and i want to die i don't want to die as a vegetable that has to be taken care enough to have somebody feed me bathe me to

put the pan under my you know well that's the hair that one requires a one one one one. syllable faculties are waning. many people who are suffering in that situation may have said otherwise when they were younger and more vibrant but desire that care now so that's the other thing is how much can we say now what our future selves will want and desire that dignity is not something that's offended by that kind of extensive care in fact it's facilitated it's honored by care at the end of life so we're called to be the kind of people who don't and lives that are too burdensome for us. are definitely interesting perspective i personally think it's your job your right to choose if you want to die but some people think that it's not thank you so much for being and you're welcome thank you for your time all right moving on from that discussion. i like to talk about a little thing called religion and how that affects controls politics in america

thomas jefferson wrote about the separation of church and state at the very outset of this country the freedom of religion is protected in the first amendment of the bill of rights and when it comes to politics when it comes to legislation there's no freedom of religion everything becomes a moral issue from the right to choose over abortions to the right to choose over your own death somehow that's a gift that's given to you by someone else by some higher power i don't know and all the rhetoric is dictated by what someone decided god would want and you can bet your ass that that's a christian god too don't you dare claim that america the country with no official religion is not a judeo christian what like obama once did because i think we all remember the reaction back to that. the very first act of the first congress in the united states was to bring in a minister and have a congress led in prayer and afterwards read four chapters out of the five

a few years later when we unanimously declared our independence we made sure that the right there were given to our creator. it all comes out of the bible really like the grave a sin that obama could commit is to say that we are not a judeo christian country you know somehow though that's passed on as natural and conservatives are really best trying to slip that under the table because in the past it would have been the fact that he's black the living crazy but these days the g.o.p. wants to look like they're the party that champions diversity the party there's a black man is chairman of the r n c no matter how many are saying michael steele maybe and they've even except it bobby jindal and indian governor in the state of louisiana and now in nikki haley south asian woman to south in south carolina but that is they've only accepted these two people because they change their religions

to fit in with american politics jindal always raise hindu then converted to catholicism haley's a sikh who became evangelical and now likes to pretend that it's always been that way. well now i think you have heard from a lot of people that you're not a christian and i really don't believe that in one ear if at a record straight that they are now and when did you become a christian well and thank you for asking the question i converted to christianity thirteen years ago we belong to now horribly united methodist church in lexington both of my children were bad and are christians and we live and strengthen our relationship with god every day through the christian faith. every day now you can preach diversity all you want but you know republicans would never ever elect anybody of the muslim faith into office they like to use that as attack as an attack on obama even though he isn't even a muslim but that is one of the things that's wrong with this picture and this

country the policy and religion are so closely tied together that that's supposedly land of freedom where everyone is accepted as long as they pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work hard where anyone can achieve the american dream you see that dream politically is reserved only for christians so let's stop preaching about acceptance and diversity until we actually see it that's all i got to say about that all right before we go tonight our tweet of the day earlier we discussed the politico story about how d.c. is an elite city and one not affected by the recession like the rest of the country so this would be the elite tweet of d.c. responding to that article they'd say damn politico parts of d.c. struggle to we just don't go there because they don't have a starbucks i will have another tweet of the day for you on wednesday we're off tomorrow due to scheduled maintenance so see you all then because that's for tonight's show don't forget to follow us on facebook and on twitter and like i said become a fan of the loner show on facebook now we will see you back on wednesday tomorrow

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shifting power international political heavyweights gather in kabul to find ways of handing more control over to afghan forces to stabilize the conflicts stricken country. calls mount for bigger funding in the battle against aids but while scientists remain split over how to deal with the so-called epidemic

others claim it's nothing more than a lifestyle disease. and in wealth discrimination president obama is determined to extend unemployment benefits slamming republicans for courting the rich with tax cuts as the senate prepares to vote. it is animosity or watching r.t.m. arena joshua come to the program now sixty nations have gathered in the afghan capital kabul for the country's biggest international event in decades they are to agree to hand security back to afghan forces by two thousand and fourteen and pull their troops out britain and pakistan however have already said some international forces may remain beyond that date to train afghan police and the conference will also focus on reconstructing and developing the war torn country.