financial correspondent lauren listers going to tell us the lengths the big pharma will go to to keep their business at the top then we'll discuss no knock search warrants it turns out that seventy to eighty thousand of these warrants are issued every year in the u.s. but sometimes they go wrong sometimes they're even lethal so we'll speak with reasons radley balko about these types of warrants and ask whether they might cause more violence than they prevent and he added tweeters out there have probably stumbled upon a few fake twitter accounts or here on the show we just really really love reading these photos we it's but we can't help but wonder what the fallout from having fun at someone else's expense might be so christopher chambers will join us at the end of the show to discuss it but now let's move on to our top story. it seems like common sense when times are tough you have to make sacrifices usually where the most money is being spent well it seems as if president obama is taking a bit of a different approach he has proposed making cuts in smaller programs making really

tiny minor adjustments to the military budgets and say the highest level officials came to capitol hill to tell lawmakers why the military's money is more important than all the rest are t. is christine for al has the story. times are tough for many on main street but most in government agree before assisting people like this it's more important to assist people like this. perhaps this is one reason the u.s. military budget is more than fifty percent of the entire world and once again the top brass came to washington over to defend defense it is my judgment that the department of defense needs an appropriation of at least five hundred forty billion dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the u.s. military to properly carry out its mission maintain readiness and prepare for the future defense secretary robert gates also discussed cuts he's made to the military budget on programs no longer needed program what you may not know is that most of

the seventy eight billion dollars he's cut would take place in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president still and this was his announcement last month that i'll describe how these reform efforts are followed through to completion will make it possible to protect the u.s. military size reach and fighting strength despite a declining rate of growth and eventual flattening of the defense budget over the next five years as far as that flattening budget here's a look at current spending compared to previous war efforts and even after the cuts experts say in twenty fifteen the military budget will still be about one hundred billion dollars larger than in the bush years and about. fifty billion more than the reagan years so what's going on here hunnam is richard wolfe says it's simple all the beneficiaries of government spending the companies that get subsidies the military producers who sell goods to the government the working people who get some

benefits even if they're small all of them have mobilized to hold on to what they get to make it politically costly for any congress man or woman to go against them here's congressman buck mckeon chairman of the house armed services committee who has fought cuts tooth and nail there will be winners and losers in this process tough choices must be made but i will not support initiatives that will leave our military less capable and less ready to fight guess where his top campaign contributions came from lockheed martin northrop grumman boeing and general dynamics. in addition to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the health and safety of men and women serving and there are also other expenses more than eight hundred military bases in places like the marshall islands and the seven million dollars sponsorship by the army of nascar. usually pleas for

money come close to the name of life or death drastic reductions in the size and strength of the us military make millet armed conflict all the more likely with an unacceptably high cost in american blood and treasure but the real treasure in their minds with those with the real power according to trends research institute director gerald celente it's as simple as they had writing on the wall it's called the military industrial complex is in charge of the nation and until that changes there will be an invisible cloak around the pentagon that will allow no one to touch its budget what you will think i do things that are sacrifice the basic cut in services the roads that go on repair and people. forced to live on the streets and a continuing decline in the health education and overall quality of life for most americans in washington christine for. well you could say that

one reason why our military budget remains so untouchable and continues to expand is because the military of today plays multiple roles under the counterinsurgency strategy of our current wars the military is a peacemaker a nation builder they're expected to drink tea with and gain trust with the locals as well as a shock in our powered killing machine fighting the taliban and mountains of afghanistan they are what nathan hodges described in his new book as armed humanitarians so here are the scots the book is nathan hodge father of our humanitarians the rise of the nation builders nathan thanks so much for being here thanks for starters why do you write the book i wrote the book because i was going to watch american military operations overseas in places like iraq and afghanistan and i found that the people who were doing things like digging wells repairing schools doing electrification in rural areas they were the ones wearing birkenstocks or wearing combat boots and i thought this is a really interesting phenomenon because about ten fifteen years ago the word nation building the phrase was really anathema especially in american political discourse

the idea was you don't like to do nation building that sort of superpowers don't don't do windows was the phrase it's some sort of other mission that we don't need to have but if you listen to people like our current president obama himself has also said that we're not in afghanistan for the business of nation building right our strategy our goals always seems to change there one day we're nation building and referring the women the next day is just to root out al qaeda and defeat and destruction and dismantle them next day it's just no longer have a safe haven so you know what gives that house rationalization building is one of those like thoroughly unsatisfying terms that nobody wants to own and nobody wants to have ownership of and that's why i decided to write the book because you know you would find someone like george w. bush when he was running for office in two thousand basically said he also thought . the u.s. military wasn't supposed to be in the business of nation building by the end of his term him completely to the point of even calling for the creation of a civilian response corps basically a civilian nation building corps that would be on call to do these kinds of missions because with the most are really discovered sort of through the very

difficult and often bitter experience in iraq and afghanistan was ok they're trained to fight and win wars they're not really equipped to drink the proverbial three cups at sea they need the civilians to come along and help civilians however aren't the ones who are necessarily prepared to deploy to dangerous places where people shoot at you while you're trying to do well you know you've also said that nation building is america's new foreign policy how do you think that other people see that how do you think the rest of the world sees that how do think it civilians in afghanistan see it is that nation building and saviors or is it you know the colonialists imperialists look it's going to be a combination of both a lot of what is the thing that worries me and one of the reasons why i wrote this book is because if our primary interaction with people in places like afghanistan and other parts of the world i also talk about the creation of this u.s. africa command for u.s. military for africa if people's primary and gauge with the u.s. is through sort of our most let's say authoritarian institutions through our

military but also through interaction with these quasi military sort of projects that are run by state. provincial reconstruction teams really good example you know that's a worrisome thing that doesn't necessarily project the image that we want in the image that we project is one that some critics might say seems to be calamitous but there's a bigger issue here which is that again the military is not the primary agency for delivering aid and development that's create a lot of friction with the traditional people within the community so this is an experiment that definitely bears watching i also wonder you know counterinsurgency has been referred to as this thinking man's war strategy but do you think that they really thought it through all. the way did they think about what it really means to engage with the local population to understand this culture you know or do they think that if you throw in a few translators it'll be all good first of all you've got to step back and say there's different flavors of counterinsurgency there's the way that for instance

sri lankan government took on the tigers much more of a sort of. you could say a preschool kind of way of doing it there was the way the soviets fought nationalist partisans after the second world war again not the same sort of population centric counterinsurgency that the macedonia says counterinsurgency traces counterinsurgency in a lot of ways is a rediscovery of the sort of late lessons of the vietnam war where they realized that they needed to have sort of better sinking between civilian basically political objectives and then the military and sort of the military in a lot of ways had sort of deliberately lost a lot of these lessons of vietnam and basically the lesson was this you sort of avoid this sort of firepower intensive approach to things and you really do concentrate on the sort of spreading that a lot of security from from from town to town to village to village and interestingly enough the. road is dissertation on the experience in vietnam so you had this sort of you know incredible curiosity within the u.s.

military to sort of rediscover these twentieth century lessons of counterinsurgency they look to malaya they look through vietnam to try to see you know figure out what the hell went wrong and what we do to fix the problem again is the book points out thank you think they have fixed the problem and we are one of the allegation that ends up being leveled out is not how to intervene or how to improve your intervention but when to intervene and this is i think the smarter question that needs yes because a lot of the sort of this new counterinsurgency the counterinsurgency approach in iraq was basically it was a way to you know clean up spilt milk it was a way to get a problem that really seemed to be spiraling downward and now you know that that same approach with petraeus at the head. it is being applied in afghanistan so we need sort of to really stand back and take a bigger look at what this all means for american foreign policy how do you know when you're writing the book when you're doing real your research and when you spoke to the soldiers the ones that are these armed humanitarians how do they see

their ball how do they combine you know the bizarre hybrid that they become which they are they're trained killing machines who are also supposed to be humanitarians well i sort of balk at the description of killing machines because in a lot of ways people in the military you know took very enthusiastically to this mission it's very gratifying to be able to do this kind of thing even if they weren't necessarily trained to do it it's tough it's challenging it involves a lot of. finesse like you said sort of a graduate level of war but there's concern i think within the larger military establishment that maybe we're getting a little bit away from the fundamentals our basic job is still fighting and winning wars and if we focus too much on this this could be did the detriment of national the last question you want with armed humanitarians i know that originally the title here was supposed to be armored suburban right why did change what happened the idea that i was originally trying to get it was this idea of force protection

the armored suburban sort of the favorite vehicle of choice for ferrying around for instance our diplomats around war zones and the idea was that sort of by creating this sort of intimidating or imposing way of moving around you create distance between yourself and the people that you're actually trying to reach the people you're trying to help so i thought it sort of conveyed a little bit of what i call this force protection mentality which is which is key if you want to succeed in shedding if this is a mission they want to succeed. thank you very much for joining us tonight in armed humanitarians it's now i will definitely be reading very much now still to come on tonight's show a female journalist for c.b.s. news was sexually assaulted while covering the revolution in egypt now some are trying to. lainer of horror because she's attractive we'll talk about those double standards here with. her mother jones hurt their human rights are plodding along now when it comes to the lobby of the federal government the one money won't change her story do you think comes out on top here's a hint it's not defense contractors parties or

a list of parts in which. is the. last night the news was released that c.b.s.

reporter lara logan had suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating when reporting from tahrir square in egypt and the crowds were celebrating the resignation of hosni mubarak when according to c.b.s. logan and her crew found themselves surrounded by a mob of more than two hundred people with into a frenzy logan was separated from recruit attack until she was saved by a group of women and estimated twenty two options soldiers and she flew back to the states the next morning and has since come out of the hospital for her recovery it's a horrible story but not because it happened to lara logan because no one wishes that kind of an assault on any person and yet for female reporters it's a risk and a danger that often comes with the job so why don't we hear more about it joining me to discuss just macklin cloned human rights reporter for mother jones magazine so much for joining us now you know it's very unfortunate that we have to have this kind of incident to bring up this conversation of course we all wish the best but

tell me you're a female journalists who often travels the world to report on stories do you think that this is just part of the job this is a risk that you always face. yeah i think. it's not even a question it's definitely a part of one of the risks i mean you are often by yourself and often in hostile environments even you know just when you're walking around your hometown you know sexual salsas there was a risk so certainly when you're more employees specially police that's dangerous or as you know a conflict element to it it certainly would you add it increased risks for sure but then why don't we hear more about this lara logan a definitely is not the only female reporter to ever have suffered a sexual assault while out on the job do people ignore it because it's just too hard to talk about the realities do they act like it's normal how come this isn't a discussion that we're you know constantly hearing about. that is

a really good question why isn't good discussion that we're hearing about because it is a thing that happens all the time and there are other journalists who've written about it in the past saying you know this is a problem the thing that's been going on a lot of the times the journalism industry itself isn't taking care of this issue of not talking about it they are not trying to propagate this conversation and they probably should be the first ones to do so you know you can point fingers say that largely the industry's been run by a lot of men and so they have that concern enough or women haven't been reporting enough because they are afraid that it means that they won't be eligible for more assignments because they're seen as a liability but regardless of who's fault it is definitely the point is it is the thing that happens all the time and therefore it is the thing that needs to be talked about a lot more what have you ever found yourself in that type of situation where something might happen to you that you feel perhaps is part of the story that you should report on but you don't want to say it because then someone will think that

you know perhaps you're not qualified to go out and do the job there because you are risk. gas louis i mean i know the first time that i was in haiti in the fall i had several instances in which i was threatened and it was a question of whether or not i should first of all even talk about it to my bosses because you know this is my job and has to risk my job and you don't want to be disqualified for a future assignment but also whether it's the thing that we should talk about in our reporting when we actually wrote a story and we ultimately decided that we should because it's sort of shows the scope of the problem and you know it's not only the women who live there and you know these sort of who are in homes women who have it's problems but you know anybody is stuck to the wall which is part of the reason you know why this particular logan story is getting so many headlines because the kind of a kind of person who you'd expect would normally be protected but that just goes to show all the more powerfully that you know that's not the case. this story

definitely has blown up and it's been reported on a lie and we've seen it for the most part you know commentary everybody being upset you know and wishing lar the best and then at the same time you have a few oddballs there that have stuck out people like nir rosen people like debbie schlussel that either you know made a joke about it or that were saying that they're happy about that happened to lara because now she knows what muslim savages do we what do you think of some of these responses. i mean that's what deb you've been saying about muslims savages this is even a fair comment but some of the jokes about it and things like that are i mean that just shows the greater state of the conversation which is that it's you know nir rosen and has to his credit made a very heartfelt apology about the promise that you made and that you know i was joking around with friends and i think he is generally credibly regretful of what

happened and what he said about it but the fact that you know he was like was. with my friends i mean it's not it's not a thing that you should be joking about with your problems in that state of this issue is that we're not talking about it people are taking it seriously enough and those are those kind of results that you. now know that you've been taking self defense classes does that make you feel more confident or at the same time do you realize you know i mean you can always be vulnerable because you know if you're in a mob like lara was the self defense isn't going to help you. right now while sure if you were attacked by several hundred people there's not really any sort of course that can prepare you for that but a lot of the times the threats are one on one or two on one or even three on one and the courses that i've been taking it involve eight straight hours of being constantly being verbally and physically attacked in order to practice reacting in a high adrenaline scenario and you know obviously you can't you great for

everything but it definitely is a practice that i'm glad that i have and hopefully this global story a lot help other you know magazines and these organizations understand that it's something that all of their reporters should be going through because it is a risk and it is a thing that happens our michael thank you very much for joining us. and you having . now it seems that a lot of attention is drawn to the growing costs of the defense lobby to both our budget and our democracy but believe it or not there is another industry that tops defense when it comes to spending pharmaceutical companies their multibillion dollar business has an answer for every ailment you can imagine and as artie's lauren lyster reports neither humans nor animals are spared from the drug company schemes. the most common things that we prescribe medication for in dogs are questionings ideas hoarders. yes protect heart scare you don't dog you heard it right doggy prozac of the flavored version of the well known human anti-depressant

government approved and being perscribe by veterinarians for canines in crisis there is a significant population of dogs that really have suffering from separation anxiety the drug company one of the largest is banking on that they believe up to seventeen percent of us dogs are suffering from this mental affliction it's an idea some would scoff at i definitely understand being skeptical so is this really a quest to help feisty fido's or is it a sign of this company's desperate to keep up their profit margin doing things to keep the margins up even though the job or drugs that are reported in the pipeline is diminish it turns out those companies don't need doggie drugs in order for critics to make that case medical researchers crunched the numbers and found the pharmaceutical industry now tops the defense industry as the number one de fraud or

of the u.s. government that was a following that i didn't expect. really ever looked at before and it shows you how out of control before. in some cases criminally out of control perhaps helping this industry go from selling forty billion dollars to two hundred thirty four billion dollars a year in preschool. drugs over the last two decades companies have been cheating and in danger in patients their biggest violations are overcharging the government by billions and illegally marketing their drugs for uses they are proven safe or effective for while side the world headquarters of one of the largest offenders one of the biggest criminal penalties that ever levied against any american corporation and volved this drug giant pfizer their illegal practices included eventually hiring physicians to spread buzz about a drug telling their colleagues to prescribe it for a condition it wasn't approved for drug pushers is

a fair way of describing. difficulty g.b. or again and when it comes to the drug companies disease pushers may not be an unfair way of describing them either that's what one filmmaker found tracing a newly minted disorder female sexual dysfunction itself was definitely something that the pharmaceutical industry really pushed for and had a hand and creating that's the conclusion cancer came to after following the process of a drug company developing a female by agra she says only a small number of women need it but the company has other plans their marketing and the amount of money that they were pouring into it really says that they're trying to sell this to the whole population restless leg syndrome and with commercials for prescription drugs airing on t.v. in the us companies are in a position to do just that you feel better with billions being made and not much to lose critics say even in the case of crime for this industry nothing is likely to

change it lest people go to jail worst of five or much larger than. the couple usual for a goodish cheaper cheap stopping short of nothing to find some syndrome someone or something new to medicate lauren lyster r.t. new york. well joining me live now from new york are studio is our teens lauren lyster lauren now you are saying that the pharmaceutical industry is now the biggest de frogger of the government can you give us a few more details on you know what offense is there really committing here. well the really major ones depending on how you splice it and dice it that account for the increase in the both the number of fraudulent accounts as well as the dollar amount of those penalties are and overcharging the government through programs such as medicaid and medicare for drugs so this is a financial issue which obviously has you know a number of reasons to be concerned considering this country's deficit but the

other issue and this is the one that really endangers patients were a lot of this crime is happening is in the illegal off label promotion of drugs which it's not illegal for a doctor to prescribe a drug for something that's it's not f.d.a. approved for but it is illegal for a company to push this use and in some of these cases for example with pfizer there was a drug that ninety percent of its prescriptions were for off label uses and these are uses that the f.d.a. has not approved the drug for that they haven't been tested and proved effective for and they do endanger patients according to the people that did this study so obviously these are criminal offenses that are going on here but is anybody being held accountable is anybody being taken to the court of law or is the government just kind of letting them loose. well one interesting comparison that i think you and i could both see is you know when everybody was calling for people on wall street to go to jail and to be charged with crimes during the whole financial collapse so you know this is something that i asked the researchers about because it's something they're calling for they say that people need to be held accountable

and charged in some cases with felony crimes and be prosecuted and i asked that question i said you know this is a very powerful industry they have a lot of lobbying power in washington a lot of money that goes directly into the f.d.a. millions of dollars you know what is the likelihood that the f.d.a. is ever going to push for any kind of felony prosecution and he said that actually the f.d.a. has called for new policies that do encourage tougher prosecution and charges of felony crimes in these cases whether that happens remains to be seen but i mean this is a powerful industry there are some people that have been charged for example with misdemeanors but they hire very powerful attorneys for example in the case of the company that makes oxy code on oxy cotton they actually hired rudy giuliani the former mayor of new york a powerful attorney to defend them so that they wouldn't have you know tough sentences so that they wouldn't have to pay as high of fines and so that they would escape jail time so they do have the toughest in the best attorneys at their

disposal so until anything really changes researchers are not convinced that anything's going to change with their illegal practices well i also am just very concerned for all the poor little doggies out there that are on prozac will learn things so much for the report. now coming up after the break one of the hosts of fox and friends says the constitution is outdated so we're going to tell you who's killed in our full time segment and did you know that in some states judges can issue no knock warrants meaning that they can enter here home without any sort of warning or discuss the growing trend and the potential dangers of these kinds of warrants with reasons radley balko.

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which fourteen people were shot dead in one thousand nine hundred one. there's the headline now the second part of it is on the way. all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and our winner this evening has held this title once before fox and friends that mindless co-host of the morning gretchen carlson has a bit of a habit of making stupid comments or observations and guess what she's struck again this week she had on fox judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano on to discuss the extensions of several provisions in the patriot act but gretchen had this very keen comment. in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds we didn't have this thing called war on terror where you have to get to the bottom of things quickly and if the.