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fox news didn't get any of the video of this attack they claimed that a protester was blocking the view of the camera so as you can imagine the right wing has gone crazy with the story calling these protesters a violent union thugs but it turns out that there is video of this alleged attack take a look you know what i hate to put you into this situation because your being here and yet you're being. there is your family because you. know that guy let me show you what you know. did you see an assault there i think that maybe somebody is armed brushed up against our tapped mike tobin and fox news land that's called an assault oh nice try guys but again you've been busted misleading the public but the thing is that that's not even the only example fox news is still trying to make you believe that union thugs are running rampant in wisconsin and beating up fox reporters with other footage last night on the bill on
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the o'reilly factor bill o'reilly was doing a report again with mike tolbert then just take a look at some of the video that rolled during this interview that shows a very heated exchange of the wisconsin rally before you roll the clip see if you notice all the beautiful palm trees that they have in madison. it's tough to tell when you get to the weekend you get a lot of out of towners a lot of people are bussed in from a not just wisconsin but a lot of surrounding states talk to someone who is from california who's sleeping in the capitol throughout this process so you get a real mixed bag who brought them in who bus them in. some of the different labor organizations have brought people in. who never was constant had palm trees and so much sunshine in the winter right so it turns out the footage of the fox air during o'reilly's discussion appears to have come from a union rally in sacramento california last week which you know misleading the public for a political purpose of course again seems to be a tradition that fox news now and that's why mike tobin bill o'reilly and the
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entire fox news channel are tonight's tool time winners. now many have worked to stop islamophobia in the u.s. there's one organization who in fact seems to be perpetuating it the f.b.i. has been sending informants in disguise to muslim communities and hopes of finding any muslims who are staging militant attacks but in this process they're deceiving peaceful muslims and in some cases turning innocent victims against other members of their own community artie's among the lindo has the story. as american muslims prepare for prayers of fear remains that the worshipper next to them may be a spy all of. this is especially true in southern california where paid f.b.i. informants have fractured the cohesiveness of a law abiding community and fearful retaliation if i and my wife fears that my
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family fears and i fear that. you know the f.b.i. is going to come down pretty aggressive. after i leave found out he was being spied on he felt betrayed by his country and now he feels alienated because fellow muslims are now suspicious that he might be a spy for the twenty six year old southern california native was approached by f.b.i. informant craig months he'll presumably because of his devout muslim faith now the a.c.l.u. and the council of american islamic relations are teaming up against the f.b.i. suing the agency for what they say is its attempt to incriminate people based simply on where they prey something they consider a violation of the u.s. first amendment freedom of religious worship the f.b.i. insists that it doesn't ask its informants to target people for their religious affiliations something muslims are finding hard to believe this is one of the
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mosques where craig montreal came to pray and socialize with other muslims. it was during a car right here that he started making some very suspicious comments that set off alarms and local community members reported it to the f.b.i. little did they know that the f.b.i. was actually paying months he'll to watch them he was always interested in other other other topics in jihad and what i thought about jihad and things of that nature once his cover was blown it was revealed them on till was paid one hundred seventy seven thousand tax free dollars over fifteen months to collect personal information on hundreds of muslims even though there was no suspicion of them committing any crime the case is eroding the already shaky relationship between the f.b.i. and the broader law abiding muslim community it is extremely ironic and sad that here in america today we have to stand up here to challenge. a
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government agency that is taking us by. and to a time when people feel that we're living in a police state montel told the media that his that guy handlers tried to instill in him that islam is a threat to our national security what so problematic with what the f.b.i. is that it came in and destroyed the community cohesion it destroyed the functionality of a community that would be f.b.i.'s best ally in protecting this nation's security and we want to do that because we this is our home and we have no other had a mission also raises concerns about the government's attitudes towards muslims historically if you look at the situation in the states faith based groups religious groups ethnic groups are always targeted because of their their faith their ethnicity like the japanese during world war two but i stand by what i said all day long muslims killed us on nine eleven and there is a huge muslim problem in the world if you are an eighteen to twenty year old muslim
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and then you should be scripture which for mosques look out for islamic terrorists in our country for the fact that very few muslims come forward to cooperate with the police as many politicians and pundits continue to portray muslim communities as american breeding grounds for terrorists the f.b.i. has a lot of work to convert these american sense of alienation to one of trust in los angeles and i'm telling the r t. well looks like even more legal troubles now brewing for the f.b.i. today care the council on american islamic relations and the a.c.l.u. announced a lawsuit against the f.b.i. for violating the constitutional rights of us here faith fifi is a twenty year old u.s. born citizen who last year discovered a g.p.s. tracking device on his car but it turns out it was planted there by the f.b.i. this device was discovered by a mechanic when if he took his car in for an oil change
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a friend then posted the picture online asking if anybody knew what it was and a couple of days later as the eye agents showed up at the door and demanded that he return the device to the bureau now according to a ruling last year by the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals it's now legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect car without getting a warrant even if that car is parked in a private driveway but the big question here is why was afifi being investigated he feels that his muslim faith might be the only answer earlier i caught up with yasser fifi an american muslim citizen and college student and zahra billoo executive director at the san francisco chapter for the council on islamic american islamic relations and i first asked us why it is that he's suing the f.b.i. after all this probably isn't going to be an easy fight. i'm suing them because you know the purchasing of ice in my car they violated my rights and it's affected me it's going to affect me in the long run if i want to get
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a job and the owner googles my name you know he's going to think twice before hiring means already happened and i mean if i no way to get over that quickly so you've already been denied a job or had to bring it up in there were actually yes verbal you brought up in the interview and declined to write me a statement saying the same thing do you have any idea why you would have been under investigation why a g.p.s. tracking device would have been on your car is the f.b.i. given you an explanation yet they haven't given a clear. nation i myself have done nothing to provoke them in any sense but i'm i'm guessing i'm feeling some type of profile for them. you know i'm twenty years old i mean it's american muslim living here alone in the u.s. i travel overseas a lot on the phone overseas sometimes i even transfer money overseas to my brother's home which are living in egypt right now so you think it directly has something to do with the fact perhaps like you said that you're muslim that you travel a lot that you have family overseas that doesn't make you feel as someone who is an
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american who was born in this can makes me feel like they're treating me like a terrorist or criminal and they're not giving me my my rights as an american citizen i was born and raised here so i feel different and it's not a nice feeling and tell me about you know a few details of the day when the f.b.i. actually showed up at your house and decided to get that tracker back off your car well they did in common knock on the door and they were they came by with two s.u.v.s and the f.b.i. saying next to my car and they were really intimidating they were threatening me with arrest if i don't give them a device back. you know finally i gave in and vice to ask me a couple questions and they were they were out there left me alone and since then i haven't heard from them but just the fact that they had it the device on my car the following me is sometimes i can feel paranoid and i have the right to feel that way you know. you know even sometimes when i'm driving i could i could see the same car driving behind me throughout the day so that's just
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a little bit scary sometimes can get somebody you know to feel really nervous so you have a little problem now perhaps trusting you know your author already of local authorities or even perhaps the federal government definitely since they violated my freedom rights and my privacy you know i feel like i don't have any privacy if i'm talking over the phone or from e-mailing somebody how do i know somebody is not listening or monitoring my conversations why are they doing that i gave them no. and. now is our i want to switch to you very quickly you know we just showed the audience a picture of another lawsuit going on between the care and the f.b.i. and a lot of people there were saying that they feel like this is somehow hurt the unity within the muslim community that now there is a lack of trust involved there and you know have you have you seen any signs of that i mean the lawsuit is slightly different because the fact that there was an informant involved there really did undermine sort of the trust in the community and you know one may allege is is a strategy exactly for that reason i think the concern around trust with yasser is
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cases specifically trust between the community and law enforcement this idea that to really fight crime law enforcement needs to partner with the community and instead what we're seeing here is that they're treating community members like suspects really without any cause or even any substantial allegations so do you think i actually have a chance of winning this this battle against the f.b.i. you know we wouldn't file it if we didn't think the law was on our side we really do we are asserting we really do believe that his fourth and fifth amendment rights were violated a warrant should have been obtained before tracking him in this way and the fact that it was not was a violation of his constitutional rights all this california law you know has a lot of people upset a lot of people up in arms the fact that a g.p.s. tracking device can a secretly put on your car without a court order even if it's on your private personal driveway so also is this case you know a good opportunity to start challenging that ruling absolutely so it is and that's why we're filing the that's why we filed the complaint right to exactly highlighted
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the discrepancies in the lies that in the in the d.c. circuit you're not required or you are required to have a warrant in the ninth circuit which includes california you're not required to have a warrant and so there's a difference in the laws and you know it really is our assertion that the constitution here would require a search warrant but i think also an important case the important point that you bring up is that the california case is actually an older case right and involves another community it was an american muslim and so it's really important for us to highlight that the civil rights concessions. issues that are at stake here don't just impact american muslims right that if the law is bad it impacts everyone and you know the civil rights that we have served and then we protect our you know our client as american muslim but really the impact is much larger but how are you looking at perhaps some of the greater moves not even you know rulings like this one in california but the fact that there has been a lot of protest over simply building mosques in america the fact that now we have muslim radicalization hearings coming to the congress absolutely and the concern is
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that a lot of those a lot of that sentiment comes from fear of the unknown comes from not understand islam and muslims but is also stand or sort of flamed by individuals like congressman peter king and also by policies like this one of the f.b.i. of targeting innocent american muslims and so really what that does is that stokes fear in the community and leads to anti is on the anti muslim sentiment i want to thank you both for joining us sorry. good luck with your case and we'll see where it comes up i definitely wouldn't want any kind of a tracking device placed on my guard i'm from california so i don't like their ruling either thanks guys thanks very sorry. still to come tonight free speech or hate speech the supreme court reached a decision over the westboro baptist church protesting the funerals of soldiers here in the u.s. and that the cozy relationship between d.c. and hollywood former senator is now going to head the motion picture association so why do politicians get to sell out for big a lobbying money when their careers are over look into that in
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dot com. we've heard their message we've seen their absurd and hateful protests and i think that everybody agrees when i say that oh pretty much nobody out there is a fan of the westboro baptist church now in case they're out of the loop the church out of topeka kansas was founded by the phelps family and they spread a very hateful message at the most inappropriate places that they can find take a listen to their message that they claim comes from god. every man born neighbor this is taking that to love that neighbor me the purpose of this is not to marry anybody it is to the world like no other with. me. now the group has slogans like think god for dead soldiers they say that their deaths are a punishment for america's acceptance of homosexuality and they don't hide these
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thoughts they took their protest to a funeral service for matthew snyder who died in iraq in two thousand and six the family many others up the funeral felt that this protest was so inappropriate as they took the case to court and now after passing through federal courts the case of snyder versus phelps finally reached the hands of the supreme court and their decision in an eight to one ruling the justices decided in favor of the baptists citing that their protests are protected under the first amendment documents from the decision explain while these messages may fall short of refined social or political commentary the issues they highlight the political and moral conduct of the united states and its citizens the fate of our nation homosexuality in the military and scandals involving the catholic clergy are matters of public import ok so these supreme court justices ruled in favor of protecting the first amendment which i think is
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a great thing but come on just just this once i got to say i really wish that these westboro baptist could have been stopped while yes they have the right to spread their message and still infuriating to see that they have no problem attending delicate very personal events like soldiers' funerals free speech is a blessing but sometimes you gotta admit there are just a few people out there who you wish didn't get to take advantage of it and hate me think i'm crazy but i'm just being honest. now it's public sector union employees and those joining them protesting across the country well a lot of people out there are wondering where their support in washington is why the big democratic names aren't getting behind them that's probably because they have much wealthier and more exciting people to lobby for and another example of the revolving door between washington and special interests yesterday former democratic senator chris dodd it was renamed or was named excuse me the new
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chairman of the motion picture association of america so basically he's now hollywood's guy in washington all this despite insisting a number of times that he would not work as a lobbyist after leaving office so what are the perks that come with selling out well joining me to discuss it is chris freights reporter for politico chris thanks so much for joining us you know i've heard some rumors that this perhaps is the most prestigious job on k. street being hollywood's guy would you say that's true it's a very good job some of the perks that you get with this job the last president of n.p.a. made one point three million dollars a year he had his own private screening room where he can bring in celebs to show first run movies before they're out in theaters officials love the come into those kinds of events watch a movie rub elbows with tinseltown celebrities and then get a lobbying pitch from the m.p.a. so this is a very fun job you get academy award tickets you fly around the world talking about
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the importance of copyright protection and promoting what is one of america's big biggest exports which are movies. i'm with you there that that kind of sounds like fun getting to go to the academy awards having your own private screening room but the thing is dyed it said rip heatedly at a number of interviews that no i am not going to become a lobbyist after i leave the senate so i mean i have should we be shocked or should we just say this is the way the washington works no surprises well you know he was saying that as he was coming under a lot of fire as he was putting the buy man chill regulation bill together a lot of folks are saying he was in wall street's pocket and they wouldn't be surprised if you took a job as a lobbyist for the street he said it. without any hesitation i won't be clearly he's reversed his position there and he's gone the hollywood instead of wall street and that's a lot of liberals they've said like this guy made us
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a pledge he's now broken a pledge we're not surprised but we're not happy about it now the one thing folks should know at home is that he can't technically lobby anybody in congress for the next two years it would be against the law what he can do is he can be the public face of the motion picture industry he can tour around he can go on television he can even plot strategy for some of his lobbyists in his office to then carry out for him but he can't do it directly until twenty thirteen but that sounds a bit like a technicality right i mean this guy already is a washington insider he already knows everybody already has the connections so he could just be having a friendly get together union lunch or a reunion dinner and well probably lobbying isn't that right well absolutely and a lot of watchdogs in washington believe that this is a problem systemically not just with chris but the other example that comes up a lot is tom daschle former senate majority leader very close to president obama
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and the guy who is not registered to lobby even though he works for one of the biggest lobbying law firms in town and people look at that and they call it the dash will exemption and chris is certainly falls into that category of big time big name rainmaker who gets the job because he has a connections and he has a relationships but he's not doing the down and dirty in the trenches lobbying a lot of people say well that is just a technicality and maybe we should address it now of course right now with the unrest in the middle east a lot of attention is being thrown on those people who it turns out have been perhaps lobbying for some dictator is that like you said there's a lot of anger at those who may have lobbied against wall street after the financial crash in two. thousand and eight so is hollywood a step but is that kind of the better person to lobby for rather than a foreign dictator or a wall street well certainly if you're lobbying for hollywood you have
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a lot going for you but a lot of consumer rights groups are not very pleased with the. pushes the kinds of policies they push on the hill these are movie studios sort of member they want to keep control of the content of their movies for as long as possible and a lot of consumer groups say you know you should be able to for instance download a movie i do you should be able to watch it on your i pad on your i pod on your tivo you should be able to watch it anywhere you like and the film studios often try to control where you can use that content so it's not always glamming glitz there are some kind of down and dirty business issues that he will have to deal with that will put him against some of the consumer rights groups that he worked closely with in congress and i guess you could probably say against a lot of young people too while this definitely is going to be a change for you know somebody who used to be a senator now is going to have some bosses to answer to but i think that he also has the american people to answer to here and there are
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a lot of us are quite upset with this thanks so much for joining us on this and my pleasure. now before we go tonight it's time for our tweet of the day fox news suspended rick santorum and newt gingrich today saying those two men are moving closer to running for president in two thousand and twelve on the network so that move would avoid a conflict of interest so tonight we wanted to tweet to fox news hey you guys are just shut down until after twenty twelve because you're just the mouthpiece of the g.o.p. fair and balanced my ass that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow and his sparing from the young turks will be back on the program also it was reported today that bradley manning was charged with twenty two new counts including the capital offense of aiding the enemy will look further into those charges related to wiki leaks tomorrow in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the alone a show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all the you tube dot com slash we want
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as colonel gadhafi once again refuses to be cries from power a humanitarian crisis is being played out on the libyan border. and we've come to the region to find out firsthand how thousands of people are coping as a fleet base for many lives joined us in a few moments football. as uprisings of the middle east and north africa see refugees flood europe or oil prices spike up there's a threat of radical islam a look at what implications the young grass could have far beyond the you chad. and a war of words between america and the world. the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says the u.s. is in a name from a friend or a media and. among those who are winning the war she named our i'll be back with
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more in just a minute. a live from our studios in moscow you're watching over to you thanks for joining us now the libyan leader colonel gadhafi is promising more violence if u.s. or nato forces dare to intervene willis's latest salvo as he bids to cling to power well meanwhile the u.n. is warning of a humanitarian crisis as thousands of libyans cross the border to tunisia well let's get more from our t's'pol sleazier who's in for us now paula according to be you and at least one hundred eighty thousand people have already fled libya and there's more arriving at the tunisian border can you just tell us what the situation is right now over there while we are seeing the same. hundred and eighty thousand people who have fled libya and some seventy five.
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