that n.p.r. find out how new republican legislation could make the same form of uncovering the truth illegal but only if it's used against major agricultural or. for flimsy low and he has told rachel about using women nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a star. state .

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a phony a video posted online by right wing ag james o'keefe led to the resignations of two n.p.r. executives last week o'keefe did all he did was not illegal but if someone from peta were to do the same thing in say a farm or a slaughterhouse they get thrown in jail for ten years or explore this double standard plus what does chamber a president tom donahue know they you don't i'll explain and i still take but first

a pharmaceutical drug once priced at ten dollars is now fifteen hundred dollars. how it how and i'll explain to you how this thing is screwing expectant moms. in our home pharmaceuticals are putting profits ahead of human lives. kavi pharmaceuticals has just raised the price of their drug my neck. for mccain i think it is which is used in high risk pregnancies to prevent premature births a teeny used to go for ten dollars a dose but now it's going to retail at one thousand five hundred dollars a dose why because the f.d.a. gave kavi pharmaceuticals

a license to be the only manufacturer of the drug basically giving them a monopoly over treatments for at risk pregnant women and with that monopoly kavi can charge whatever they want and that's just what they intend to do it companies also making sure that no other competitors jump into the market to someone he met a more reasonable price they sent out a slew of cease and desist letters to other companies thinking about producing a similar drug so how does legal early steven justifiable here offer his take is jamie weinstein deputy editor of the daily caller jane so why do you want to limit innovation in america it's my question when they when they told me about this i was shocked i don't know about the specific instance that you brought out and i haven't heard of this drug and i haven't heard of a specific example but but as you know as you know as you. guys as you know tom the way drugs are manufactured with america is the leading manufacturer of innovative drugs in the discovery of innovative drugs in the world pharmaceutical companies take risks and these risks are very costly often most often they come up

away with nothing we lose a lot of money jamie once you get one of the ones that you are going to already have the research and the new drugs and it's done with but it's one of the national institutes of health care knology companies. r r r r the primary. i'm telling you look it up i did i got here this is this what we have here is a drug that was on the market it was being sold for ten bucks company pharmacies were a company pharmacies are like you know they literally can't make up the stuff from and they sent out all letters to them saying you can't do the same or because we've got the exclusive rights to it this is going to breaking patents this is this is this well actually it's orphan drug status but it's close to patents but this in my opinion is big government on steroids but if you if you let me if you let me patents you were posed to go you know hey i am opposed to bigger but if you live in a patents and you limit the ability for companies to recoup the costs for research and development not only for that drug for every drug that failed on the way to market they're not going to be there's not

a good investor is there to invest in these companies to create innovative drugs so that it was the end result is that we are worse off because we don't have these innovative drugs out there making us live longer you know i'm not tell you about this depends on the thomas jefferson was as you probably know he argued very very strongly in fact i was over ginia out of the constitutional convention over his fate that he thought that there should never be any that was the one we want to one of the amendments the constitution a ban and so he was wrong there as well he later in as president suggested that it be limited to three years he felt that three years is enough time for somebody to recoup their investments he also didn't live in the age of pharmaceutical companies which is a very different different you know i would suggest that if it weren't for patent laws or as bill gates would be worth a billion or two he wouldn't be worth forty or fifty that he's a he's a welfare queen. you know these laws keep getting gamed you know disney has been gaming this thing you know the mouse is copyright was about to be up well let's

just roll it over let's just roll it out i would say without out these guys are all for it but i would i would say we don't have a pat morris ad i would probably wouldn't have for instance the united states which we do best around. the rates for cancer then another country or small is numbers are really really very arguable and secondly it's not a very bad well then i suggest you google it secondly shouldn't drugs should be pharmaceuticals instead of pharmaceutical companies making bazillions of dollars in the case in the case of this particular drug me three thousand dollars for pregnancy which a poor woman or uninsured woman cannot afford which means that she's going to die or a child is going to die or have problems of this kid and this as i said this product was on the market for ten dollars they could make it for ten bucks knol of a sudden you know they're making to the up pile of your i mean like they invented this thing last week i don't know again the specific example but as you know most drugs that are better charged

a lot of money for can be made manufactured the technical manufacturing aspect of it is very cheap what is costly is the research and development not only for that drug but for every drug that failed well which is often a billion dollars to make it to market which is a lot of money shouldn't this be part of the commons shouldn't pharmaceuticals shouldn't there be you know like like banking have been trying to be something that has enough regulation that there that we don't have drugs or from drugs that nobody produces because they're not profitable on the one hand and on the other hand we don't have drug companies that are making it seem. well first of all i don't know if they have seen their like profits like most other companies. in the world in the world of reality yes and ideally we would wish that drugs get to everyone for very cheap for nothing but the way of getting people everybody in a way to develop the one true way fraction yes because we because there's the kind of ripping off of us because the girls are actually not we don't manufacture most or we innovate actually worse most a lot of the drug companies put their try to apply for approval here first because

they had the most incentive to roche is this was company by there's a german often and often they put their patents here to try to get out of here because this. that's where they'll make because that is they can at least that's a lot of it is there by knowing what extend this to if you're overweight is making one thought hey they do it because their incentive here i call is to make money and if you don't have it as you know they're drug money because they're gaming government i'm going to give money and i don't count you know i don't worry it's not even a big deal it's not good friend of big government you're saying that doesn't mean a killing i don't want to see the point tom if we're going to give them a monopoly or what have you enjoyed we have it wouldn't be that drug was already where you live we want to be living free market you're using the example that you have heard anywhere i came here with generally drugs that are in. earlier pain longer so i'm for i'm for expanding our lifespans and making us happier healthier and that's what you need for it sounds well again as i said i'm

not opposed to patens chips all the cards are dropping by to talk. this is the result of government being manipulated to grant monopolies the phrase that jefferson used big corporations post their profits for the rest of skits for. last week to n.p.r. executives including the chief of n.p.r. vivian schiller resigned over a video showing eight an n.p.r. fundraiser making racist remarks about the tea party take a look. right. that's. right. struck you. know.

why you think america. it's scary they are serious. that was the work of gotcha journalist james o'keefe the same go dressed up like the world's most ridiculous pimp to bust acorn was caught trying to seduce a c.n.n. eight here was arrested for trying to tap senator mary landrieu his phone lines are real class act guy here's how he described himself and his form of journalism in the n.p.r. video. tape is very powerful it is very honest the tape cuts to the core of who these people are so shows their hearts and minds and it's had such an effect of course it was right everything is honest and true except for one thing the video was taken completely out of context the full version was posted online over the weekend what it reveals is that the n.p.r. fundraiser was expressing his opinion of the tea party he was actually relaying

a message there were republican ads we'll take a look. but it's a person that's worth. so very high places because it's not a person that was part of. the party probably they voted for probably never believed they could record because. after they had peaked. at. the right. this. strikes. me. so he had it all the first part of that and just put her tea parties hijack the republican it's amazing what happens when the whole. it was revealed this is the shirley sherrod incident all over again creating creatively editing a video to make someone look like a racist but here's the thing what o'keefe did is not illegal however if

republicans get their way in several states across the country it will be illegal if o'keefe were due to do the exact same thing on a farm and why because in an effort to protect big agribusiness organizations like peta sending investigative journalists to uncover mistreatment and unsanitary conditions within farms republicans in iowa have proposed legislation to make photographing or videotaping farm animals illegal and people could face ten years in prison if found guilty is them double standard here but he said this about investigative journalism. reporters do a lot of stenography in this country they do a lot of damage control they do a lot of punditry but real investigative reporting you shop on things for what they are are and so and yes some networks have done this there's less of it these days but you're saying the means justify the ends you're willing to use deceptive tactics to get to the truth that's your justification you know that's that's not what i said i said in investigative reporting you so sometimes justified to go undercover in order to get to the truth if you're not it's

a form of guerrilla theater here so why is it illegal for peta to uncover the truth at a farm without creative editing i might add but not illegal for james o'keefe with the help of lies to uncover the truth that n.p.r. does make any sense to you here with me on the issues see tamale president less government or sit in welcome back readings. this was first of all james o'keefe says the serial why there was was a large was knew how to use like that we had it is useless that we have is that why was uncovered well yes selectively edited it mattie finish the sentence please you're going to you're always wrong because you had it was uncovered by the blaze which is which is glenn beck's web site blaze but better scott baker said and this is a. and it's not out of context he said if you look at two at the two hours in total you largely get the impression that these are pretty they seem to be fairly balanced people trying to do a fairly good job instead of jailing people photographing how as if we're going to

jail somebody shouldn't we be jailing somebody trying to destroy other people's lives the game james o'keefe is doing with the media every day to sarah palin or michele bachmann or any of those men or whatever i mean i don't think frankly that there should be any of these laws and i see no idea oh i agree. the lawyers that we know about this was florida and illinois or iowa or some some of the midwest i think it was either redundant or ridiculous you shouldn't break it down or shouldn't trust pass but i think it may right now they're going to make it illegal so the lawyer driving by on the road you take a picture of a pastor you know it was not a ten years you got one guy in the wanted for to and one guy put in the law in the midwest it goes all you know going anywhere you know how much money oprah winfrey spent defending herself against these veggie libel laws what she did slander the beef industry she said i'm not going to eat another hamburger and they sued she said he said the best she spent over a million dollars in legal fees because she had slandered who. she was going to

distribute she's going to strip ok so if i say something bad about the pharmaceutical industry at this i should have to spend a million dollars to protect was not the kind of what i thought the real of speech what happened floods of government that's from the government it's not from individuals slander libel laws have always existed because it's from person to person white but you don't feel that here is like you a new job and so you're saying that they should apply to call you watch it which if you're somebody with you're saying that the if you or i were to on t.v. if i were to say seaton i think you know your hair was funny or so you want something really bad or we're both bradley figures ok so we can we can slap each other around verbal go along and even do it offstage you have got to i think i've brought with. you there. one of us said something about you know frank the floor director who's not a public figure my friend i do and frank. frank could sue us because he's a private so you're suggesting i don't like it with

a little i feel corporation that an industry that the media industry should have the same protection that frank does. not a public figure and you can't slip into the meat industry is not a public figure they're out there in public they're making millions of dollars a spending hunt they're spending millions of dollars on advertising day and they've got to get a lobbyist here in that although he knows that it probably was he's really like i don't want more of a public figure to you or me i don't know the you've got a you have frank produce but then you've got nine million people is dead what i'm saying that's something that everybody knows he's the face of the meat industry the poultry industry but it is nice there's a high and what not but he's also he was a person and there's totems pride go program down in texas who dresses up in a pilgrim's outfit and it's ok but what i'm saying is that for every one of them there's not i mean people that work behind him that are public figures who get hurt when something like this when asked so those people were not the ones that oprah winfrey when she slammed biden she ultimately won what you want to make sure of

what i'm saying is those are the people to get her not free to do he's got cloying of people who are on the chicken pluckers and the meat producers the meat processors they don't make a lot of money and if they're if their business goes down they get fired so if we try to tell the truth if we tell the truth about who we should go to jail there is no truth about that there is no there's not somebody takes a picture of what you do you know because they're going to have but you didn't know that it's illegal to test for my county and since. there is no magic out united states with motor winfrey said what she said on t.v. well but she wasn't talking america but even right now you're saying there's no mad cow you know i don't know that nobody knows i eat meat i've gone mad yeah i do you know. only when i come here ok i can do a selective memory you know because you have it it may well be. i'm just you know i don't get this whole this whole concept that the republicans are promoting on behalf of these corporations same that if if you're i say something nasty about one

of these corporation no i don't like the legislation get annoying go and face ten years or not the legislation as it is is the radomir ridiculous because if you can't break and enter into somebodies poultry farm and start filming at night in time a break. from the road it's absurd you know but you know what i'm saying is. the people you allegedly want to help which is the working class people truth yes about what's going on but if you're not telling it like for example remember what happened with food lion i think was a.b.c. did a sting on food lion and made for allegedly create i know nothing about this is about eight or nine years ago maybe longer they were in a food line they didn't find the evidence they're looking for because through lines a nonunion grocery store they went in there fabricated a whole bunch of acid and they got milk for all it was a figure for was so they i mean that's how it should work out but in any case i think we've with we've covered the topic sitting beside him and i thank you very much for showing up hopefully one of these days telling the truth whether it's a video on fox so-called news or photos out of

a slaughterhouse will be celebrated or not truth is occasional but distortions like you that are being an outright lies are celebrated in some right wing media and the truth of slaughterhouses may soon become illegal welcome to george orwell's. after the break tonight's daily take on the most influential men of washington thinks your not worth listening to plato. actress lindsay lo and bakiev. rachel that these women that people are suggesting she's younger you know she says she's a stock. alan

. it's the good the bad of the very very extremely ugly first the good progress when adam smith of washington state in more than two months since the tucson tragedy when congresswoman gabby giffords was shot while she's been recovering otherwhile makers of stepped up to ensure her constituents voices are still being heard one of

those lawmakers congressman adam smith who serves on the same armed services committee giffords routinely asked questions on her behalf during the hearings and other lawmakers are joining smith tomorrow night to host a fundraiser for giffords reelection campaign in two thousand and twelve good friends good work the bad. news host chris wallace wallace toward a portion of his sunday program to right wing hack james o'keefe. whether you would fire or condemn his tactics there is no debating that undercover activist james o'keefe has taken on some big targets and come up with some stunning results once again he's our power player of the. right i suppose you become wallace's power player by committing felonies line and destroying people's lives if that's the criteria ok he fits right in and the very very ugly dana perino a former bush press secretary turned fox so-called news talking head went after president obama and the white house for making too many john boehner and jokes take

away. the one thing that's interesting to me with all the speechwriters that they have they can't come up with any new material they keep going back to the same while i'm making fun of john boehner skin color which really was white house of all white house all right the thing i guess for you know things that. it's about skin color off the table for this why is that right as because you know it's a white house with the black guy living in a more racism of fox news and that's piri piri. on friday the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce tom donahue he was speech in st louis where he championed the need for more deregulation of our economy as though thirty years of reaganomics constant deregulation isn't enough i also at that speech were

a few dozen protesters who are keenly aware of the effects of deregulation one effect being the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight and they were calling for more governmental oversight on wall street when asked about these protests by a reporter covering the speech donahue made this flippant and dismissive remark. do you think they even know what a derivative is as those people who don't understand complex financial instruments like there it is shouldn't be taken seriously don he will also went on to share his opinion that public workers like teachers in wisconsin who make fifty thousand years a year plus benefits earn salaries that are out of control and a load it is coming from a guy who made three point seven million a year and is one of the highest paid lobbyist in washington d.c. i wonder what the prism this guy views the world through his smear. of the truth is donahue in a way it's right. most of us don't know what derivatives are or what credit default

swaps are or what toxic securities are or any of the other wildly complicated financial bobs that bankers bankers on wall street used to make billions of dollars and then bring our nation to the brink of collapse as they did a few years ago as they continue to do to this day edginess all closer and closer to financial ruin again and considering there are economists right now is more dependent upon these byzantine mind bogglingly comp of complicated financial things then it is actually on manufacturing things somehow something that most americans know how to do making things and people with this have banse knowledge can pretty much get away with some of the biggest heists in the hitter is free of the world literally literally bankruptcy as the old cliche goes knowledge is power and banks to us have the knowledge so they also have the power and that's why the

bankers are in jail and that's why the middle class is turning on each other just like the republicans of planned since most of us just don't understand how wall street's street screwed us it's hard to be all that angry about it let's face it and some expert starts talking about finance tend to turn out the channel on the other hand when sound loud mouth on t.v. starts talking about dadt. most people know what they're talking about because most of us are actually in debt and now they have our attention they tell us who to blame like the overpaid teacher or those socialist community organizer of acorn planned parenthood or the willfully inept federal government and skirting below the radar is the banks that are immune from prosecution because most of us really don't know what he did and tom donahue confirmed that reality to us all this

weekend. romney basically made fun of and dismissed anyone who didn't or derivative is these guys live in a bubble as we saw in sandy sea anchor larry kudlow so this over the weekend a look at the s. and p. pouncing back it's not about four tenths of a percent all in all the market taking this in stride i mean the human the human toll here looks to be much worse than economic tone we can be grateful for that and the human toll is a tragedy we know that but these markets are see all these markets right stocks commodities oil gold there is no major breakout or breakdown is that. we can be thankful for a disaster it kills tens of thousands of people and brings the nation to its knees because it didn't also affect the bottom line of the bankers it's the same with the permeates across capitol hill forget about the forty million

americans on food stamps forget about the fifty million people who are uninsured forget that one in five twenty percent of the children in our nation live in poverty if wall street's derivative trade is generating big bucks then everything is just peachy. this is what an american economy oh for and by rich people looks like a massive complicated machine filled with thousands of moving parts and gizmos that only a very elite few know how to work even our elected leaders don't know how it works but they know this machine is generating campaign resolutions so they just go along . i say it's time to throw a regulatory wrench in the years and pop the bullets forming as we speak at the banks tears in their lap dog politicians live in an economy is supposed to serve

the people not wall street and at some point the last thirty years we all lost sight of that. it's time to take back control of our economy from the people who have run it crazy this started really with the with the religion of martin maggie thatcher one nine hundred seventy eight jimmy carter was even infected with the last two years of his presidency the regulator the trucking industry he the travel industry reagan came in amped it up even more he we've got regulated the s. and l. industry what happened four years five years later in one thousand nine hundred sixty the s. and l. exploded and crashed great at least had the good sense to put a thousand bankers in prison it's been nothing but deregulation ever since and it's just strong in our country and our economy we've got to do something about it so that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit our website amanpour dot com r t dot com and this entire show is available for free i cast i'd also check out our you tube page you tube. big picture r.t.

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