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their methods and tone down their often too violent approach or has it only gotten worse then hookers for jesus they can save you from a life of working in the sights industry we're going to speak with one of these women to find out what their message really is all about and it's a mash up of the hottest stories making a buzz on the wet snow he takes her trashy ways to the w w e and kids might be allowed to sext in one state after all they're about impossible give us her take on all of that at the end of the show but first let's move on to our top story. general petraeus reports to washington for the first time since taking over command of the war in afghanistan and general came to capitol hill today to reassure the lawmakers that it's still in america's best interest to keep troops in the country but how many americans agree with the traces comments about this war that's now lasted for a decade christine for south has more. it was meant to be an honest and open conversation about the state of the war in afghanistan and who better to report in

general david petraeus himself ok. important but hard fought progress in afghanistan over port part of sorts for those serving on the senate armed services committee like senator joseph lieberman of connecticut nobody is under any illusion this is truly the question it seems to have many answers is in which direction it's turning here's one side here for we're me. can progress we have made a great deal of progress in afghanistan since the last hearing of this committee on the subject just over half a year ago while the security progress achieved over the past year is significant it is also fragile and reversible this line fragile and reversible uttered so many times in the last few days it may almost be worthy of a drinking game as progress remains fragile and reversible but in the same hearing room just last week a bit of a different tune was sung we have enjoyed. what

a feat of operational successes against. however the taliban does remain resilient and will be able to threaten u.s. and international goals in afghanistan through twenty a weapon also at the hearing and intelligence assessment about the future from national intelligence director james clapper i think. the concern that he has is. after that and the ability of the afghan government. pick up their responsibility for government over the last few weeks there has been additional hardship in the mission and an increase in anger after nine afghan children were killed in a nato led attack here's secretary gates last week like to begin by joining general petraeus and offering my personal apology. for the accidental killing half

nine afghan boy it's by coalition forces and here's president karzai talking about incidents like this and civilian casualties as a whole they want it stopped. they wanted military gives they want to stop president karzai said he actually wanted foreign troops out of afghanistan so not only are they losing the u.s. supported president of afghanistan now new evidence that the war is losing support from the general public as well this washington post a.b.c. news poll just out shows sixty four percent of americans do not think the war has been worth fighting and a much larger number seventy three percent thanks the u.s. government should withdraw troops this summer as a originally planned michael prysner veteran and member of the antiwar answer coalition agrees resistance in afghanistan is a popular uprising of afghans from all walks of life from all backgrounds in every corner of afghanistan who rightfully see the occupation of their country as an

empire trying to gain a foothold in the region that's of to chicken poor and for resources and for dominating the region that in the hearing some signs that transition in kabul could be in the works it is afghan police who are the face of security on the streets it is the afghan army it further out that has security responsibilities in every given night in that city so what's the purpose of these hearings well what's that in five these roles is meant to give lawmakers inside a progress report so they know how to best vote for the future of what happens in afghanistan but what could become increasingly difficult for them the mixed messages and what they're hearing from general petraeus continues to differ immensely from what they hear from reports inside and outside of afghanistan in washington i'm christine present on our team. general david petraeus urged the end . merican people today to remember the reason why we're in afghanistan and all that

gave was one single date nine eleven both a record number of americans now saying that this war has not been worth fighting with a progress report ten years in it says nothing more than a fragile and reversible perhaps we have to wonder why general petraeus by congress why president obama won't just come out and say it straight that we can't win it that we can't change afghanistan that basically. we might be screwed earlier i caught up with jake for a baritone co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and dr james carafano senior defense analyst for the heritage foundation and i asked them just that. well i think because they would agree with it i mean first of all why you there we would argue they're there because the us has a legitimate interest in being there but having afghanistan being a haven for the taliban and al qaeda doesn't work very well didn't work well before nine eleven and so when you're an interest the state you get it right and you know that and i think that there has been

a change. and so that shows that you can do things different i seems in what way what kind of changes that are there have no change there hasn't been change i mean did last year was the worst year in terms of afghan deaths in terms of afghanistan last year was the worst was the years worth your distance me for u.s. casualties and oh by the way the biggest nightmare of all probably the worst case scenario every year we've been in afghanistan a proven public approval rating inside of pakistan has decreased in a poll came out two weeks ago pakistani approval rating to the general public was eighty percent disapproval rating policy in afghanistan doesn't make sense anymore for our interests or for national security purpose whatsoever at this point and you and me are both conservatives you and me both what president obama our office next year how does it make sense for us to be arguing for a policy for him he doesn't well first of all i don't care who the president is the president the constitution is a job to provide for the common defense so it is not about who is in office that is no different to more though it's not up to those who disagree i mean i don't think

we have it i don't think there is it in u.s. interest to have television rolled back into afghanistan how about this all the last or the last year there was seven attempts minimal seven attempts we know by unclassified documents we can link some of those there's a little seven attempts to get their hands on nuclear weapons inside of pakistan united states did nothing to prevent it because we're bogged down in afghanistan our priorities are wrong our priority just points out of afghanistan trying to nation build not an actual counterterrorist activity the only way to get out of afghanistan right now and the only way that we're going to find any sort of fixing this solution is going your troops are there number one reason why is because in order to get this. fragile situation of pakistan dealt with by bringing p. . between kashmir india and pakistan and the only way to do that is to get troops out of there. very quickly interrupting i want to ask you something about what sights to be on the ground in afghanistan right and so much of our strategy question about winning hearts and minds but i want to know if you think that these are hearts and minds that can actually be why are these only people whose hearts and minds are minds you can rent for a short time you can pay him off for

a couple weeks or a couple months until they then again turn against you yeah this is this is incredible we're renting what you're doing by our presence here we are renting their public approval granted our soldiers are doing a credible job of trying to protect the population and train the afghan forces they're not the ones to blame but the bottom line is with this sense of afghans they have a one hundred year old mentality that's going to years behind us and that's not going to change unless you stay there for another hundred years so how long are we supposed to stay there we must stay there for i don't there is will they catch up lower spending billions of dollars are you ready for your interest which is to build up the past the afghans to defend govern themselves i haven't heard a strategy from you which is basically walk away and oh yeah the kashmiri chrysler three simple right here can study group this is how we get out of afghanistan james this is a two way you take it over the director of the heritage foundation give it to look elsewhere you may get out of it one of the why is that if i know walked out a way that would be talking about the way what you're saying is like after pearl

harbor if we just walked away and let the japanese have the pacific the policy no we want our trading through no we're talking about training an afghan national army by the about twenty five to thirty five thousand troops there would you could you counter terrorist activities by attacking al qaeda with that you simply get out of the east into the south we're with the taliban if you throw the taliban it's a thirty thousand person a tribe you're just missing one step which and i agree with you this is the afghan solution is turn this over the afghans train them to do the job but until you can stabilize the situation you've created a territory for the operator and that's not threatened by ok he had to. i'm kind of i do not see anything you said james that we should walk away right at this moment right but there is of course talk that we have to can interpret for all starting this july there was talk of this twenty four deadline day nobody seems to want to commit to the day care some telegrams did introduce legislation saying let's have a completion date let's actually have some numbers a type of timetable that's been drawn up why can't we just commit to something like

that because it's worse now that people after pearl harbor people say president roosevelt tell us where they were going to be over in the war's over when the war started yes but who decides when the war is done even if it was only two percent of the american people say that this war isn't worth fighting the war that the american people are losing their lives for that i guess you could say technically the chinese are funding the a.o.l. i mean of that we're hearing heart attacks are there any thought thought the civil war wasn't worth winning either so i mean which you know this is not i mean you can't sign on to the american people don't want we live in a democracy not to play with layovers the generals are saying as i'm telling you the land the constitution or the constitution to say we vote every day on whether we should be in the you know doesn't only congress would certainly cause us to be clear who are now in response and would tell you what just like jefferson with the barbary pirates is what the congress needs to do today with terms of terrorism here are terrorists and they do pose a threat but those terrorist threat i will begin to see in yemen and somalia in actually doing afghanistan it's not because they're there it's because. if you look

at the theology if you look at the time you make it is for every good on others they have more of it there now here in yemen and somalia and other places and if we were smart and do your counterterrorist effort we would go to yemen and we would start actually so the take take it home she i want to be sure i got this because we're in here to talk about invading somalia yemen i don't talk about invading i'm talking long talk about it i don't know so you talk general petraeus said himself that there are only about one hundred members of al qaeda even left in afghanistan so if afghanistan isn't where they are if the mountains of pakistan if there was here a stand is the safe haven then what we do about that why. we keep fighting a war that we do spend hundreds of billions of dollars on if the safe haven isn't even where we are because i think the. no look that's right to to to do that right i think they agree that part of the solution of dealing with pakistan is dealing with afghanistan and that's the reason why they call it that because they go together i mean if you if you run away afghanistan they just walk back in from

pakistan just like we pushed them out of afghanistan they went to pakistan you have to deal with both sides of the problem the pakistani side the problem is hard with the pakistani problem so the problem gets a lot harder if you walk away from afghanistan and you let the taliban walk and that doesn't explain why you do it no it does it does. you have to look out with the taliban is the taliban are pashtuns there are pashtuns in pakistan and they're pashtuns in afghanistan what you have to do is allow the at the pakistani government to shield protect themselves from say any sort of insurgency and you have to allow the afghans to chill their themselves from insurgency it doesn't mean continue to make pakistanis afghans and afghans many pakistanis you were in were siding in a civil war so you know during the civil war there were americans in the south in the americans in the north in the solution was to get a political solution to live together but until you created military situation that could happen it could happen the same things through here you can't just say well

we need a political solution we have to have the security situation that allows of what you said i mean you are you are a colonel solution definitely isn't doesn't seem to be showing itself but that's why i feel like at least somebody talk about that about the fact that this isn't working because fragile reversible yes that's obvious and ten years in fragile and reversible aren't what the american people want to hear and i thank you both very much for joining us and this is where traces first hearing on capitol hill since taking over and who knows he might not be heading this war for too much longer if the rumors to stay true thanks. still to come tonight a dire situation in japan as a threat. nuclear product cost the country it's not like the debate over nuclear power and why some are now trying to capitalize on this disaster and then it's international day against police brutality so why ask if it's an issue that's getting better or worse and as well that incident that's. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions

break through that sort of thing may who can you trust no one who is imbue it with a global missionary see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask what we do our t. question more. leg. lifts. the. lid. playing.

the game and the it. hey guys welcome to show in tell me alone a show we part of our guests not to say on the topic now we want to hear our audience is going to you tube the video response part of twitter first part of the question that we've posted on you tube every monday and on thursday the show your responses please let your voice be heard. as we continue to watch the crisis in japan unfold after last friday's nine point zero magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami the situation only seems to be

getting worse the death toll is now estimated to be over ten thousand people aftershocks keeping the country at a nuclear crisis is unfolding at the fukushima daiichi plant or we've seen numerous explosions and radiation leakage has now prompted mass evacuations and a no fly zone covering a ninety mile radius around the facility but here to help watching this disaster has turned into playing politics depending on which shall you turn on you might be told that this is a clear sign that nuclear power is dangerous that we need alternatives and that the u.s. is not safe. nuclear power production is kind of a high wire act when the whole idea behind what you're doing depends on this planet controlling a nuclear chain reaction you really can't afford anything that might interrupt your control. or you might see exactly the opposite there you go

reports of leaks president obama today said we need to focus on what he calls clean energy i should say for a nuclear reactor can survive this stuff to station it's a pretty good real world test that we should give nuclear energy more of a chance. one thing here is clear whenever there is a crisis there is always somebody willing to capitalize on it so how are we supposed to know what's in our best interests how are we supposed to make educated decisions for our future here to discuss this is me is christopher chambers georgetown university professor and author of the blog as revenge chris thanks so much for being here now of course the situation japan is unfolding as we speak pages are breaking news that there is another fire at this plant and another reactor so it's obvious that there is going to be a bit of confusion when it comes to the reporting that the facts aren't always going to be straight but have you noticed the instance politicized patient i think every course i mean this is a political hot potato energy generally nuclear power and it's got all the the

hysterical elements that the press wants in the press kind of advocates its watchdog rule and just because it's theory or mongar i mean when you saw that with that with the oil spill in the gulf people were investigating the root causes and the lack of regulation or what you know sweetheart deals were going on in the exploration in the construction and shoddy materials it's just mysterious theory is theory of what's going on keeping score that's what's happening here so of course you're going to have people lining up on both sides so you know nukes no nukes is going to destroy the world or oh it's not so bad i mean the this this is business as usual you know while thousands of people are dead and you know i mean i think that the press obviously of these types of situations those who do have the resources at their disposal to send people to japan to be covering us from on the ground i think they do a good job at that but then what's the point if you have those resources if there are so many so many pictures so many visuals to then be bringing in pundits in

various lobbyists from you know from different groups well because that's the model we have it's going to generate ratings when you have people running up and telling people what they want to hear their preconceived notions have. egghead from some think tank talking about you know the fire and the steam and you know whether this person might have kind of a a cautious nuclear energy more aggressive one that's boring you know but when you can when you can hit hit hit you know we can't do this we can't this is going to kill us all if we have nuclear power or it's not that bad you know this is an act of god a nine point zero earthquake i mean this is something out of a movie for god's sake when there is more you know ratings driven analysis is going to take a backseat and that's what you have and it's basically as i said you know business as usual to spite the people on the ground reporting the facts hopefully in the japanese government is trying to sort this out too but even they are having their problems me in europe they're taking some reactors offline to check them you know

which is fine i mean what does that mean that nuclear power is going to destroy the world no they're just being cautious but at the same time if the press is doing its job you can you can kind of peel out that layer of what's hysteria and what's just people being cautious but again we can't do that because we're so tied into this let's take sides and fight and we instantly of course see reactions here like you mentioned germany is taking some of their reactors are fine we can go back to the b.p. oil spill last summer when you know instantly because there is such an outrage over this and because it was being covered nonstop by the media then obama decided to. drilling you know fast forward to today and he is now tallying the fact that he has signed new contracts for new drilling so they can avoid having to talk about the fact that his administration is also pushing for nuclear power and i'm sure that a couple of months from now people might forget all about carol of course and again nobody do the the investigative work i mean t.v.

definitely not i mean not not or to you but you know the networks definitely not they advocated newspapers and websites of have done a fairly good job of keeping on top of the root causes whether we're talking about . this in japan or the b.p. oil spill but again the media is not investigating the media is just putting it out there almost as there's a horror show as entertainment as a horror movie rather than really investigating it so whether you're an official in japan that might have some shoddy work you know fukushima or you're trying to push nuclear power here or you're an anti-nuclear activists i mean you've got the stage now because the mainstream media is not doing its watchdog role but at the end of the day who is it that loses out it's people like you and i right it's a family how are we supposed to know. course the p.b.s. have a how are we now supposed to know and make decisions about what type of energy we think we might want our country to be investing in what we want our taxpayer

dollars calling towards you know somebody says that i have a form of energy for you that carries absolutely no rights are americans going to be willing to do that at double the price i don't know i mean because again the media is not doing its education job the media is just they're putting on a horror show and you can't make rational decisions either personal or policy wise with that kind of atmosphere so i really don't know i don't think we can make rational decision on the future of this energy source or any other in this current atmosphere but in the end of the day yes there is a nine point zero earthquake everybody on either side is going to have to at least admit that but after that they just fall back into their old patterns and so we're in trouble and i think you know yesterday on this program to we were talking about the fact that so many americans now have have turned against science that's not really something that we we tell our kids to really learn any more right all right and they don't you don't strive to be an astrophysicist anymore you strive to get

rich and so what happens is when you turn your back on science when you have this little extra lesson that of course we're not going to know right and only we're not all that we supposedly can believe is who we think we see on t.v. exactly exactly the pundits are. we're going to believe the people who are going to rappel soon are all believes the people who are the real experts you know they're going to have their point of view we don't want to listen to them because that's boring that's cool that's not really going to grab it and you can't make a decision and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight. ok is the international day against police brutality it's a day to reflect on and work to fix broken justice systems crooked cops to highlight those countless videos that we've seen of raids gone wrong or innocent victims have lost their lives to ask if the problem is getting better or only worse so joining me to discuss it is hip hop journalist d.v.d. david thanks so much for joining us today you know we talk about police brutality

and its international police brutality let's talk specifically about america do you think this is something that is getting better or is it only getting worse are we starting to see more of it. i think it's getting worse for a couple of reasons the first and foremost is that you have a situation where good cops aren't speaking up you don't see them holding press conferences you don't see them taking bold stances to denounce any wrongdoing within iran ranks so it leaves people with an us versus them type of perception the second thing is that you have a scenario where a lot of laws are being put on the books primarily by rich folks who fear the impoverished nation that is rapidly coming up so for example here in oakland you have a lot of people that are getting tickets and getting their cars booted by police so they're running into the police and this is a revenue generating scheme by our city council you have other situations where property owners are now calling the police more and more because they want

panhandle lose from out of their store or people who are a lot of who don't have a job is cetera et cetera so the point that i'm getting at is that you have that sort of engagement happening more and more and it's not just the you know the traditional folks who you have stereotyped as being the ones to come across law enforcement and then lastly you have a situation where. you know there was a third point i was going to make where the police themselves are passing laws for example you have several states or cities where you can't videotape them and then you're seeing video evidence of police misconduct so that becomes a situation where you're looking in you're saying well are you guys willing to be accountable for your actions you have all the tools all the laws on your side and you have. situations where pundits or or or talking on your behalf what about the sit in serie the citizens who feel that they are being mistreated what

recourse do they have a now the last thing which would have been you being able to videotape them you have the police standing up and rejecting that sort of situation so no i don't think it's getting better i think it's getting worse now you mention of course this brings in arriving in perhaps or some class warfare going on but is this also still an issue of race in america do you still think that blacks or latinos are unfairly targeted by the police absolutely i mean in many of the let you know communities with the aid of the east and the various laws that are coming down there that are in place definitely where you have law enforcement saying well you know what even though we have a situation where many of the police chiefs say that it's not a good thing for them to act as ice agents there are programs in place and in places like arizona and in some parts of texas where that is the case so yes that is becoming a situation you also have the quote unquote war on terror so there was just

recently an article that talked about how police departments are being trained to look for the quote unquote terrorists and those terrorists aren't the lone wolf types or and so they describe the white males who we've seen do terrorist acts it's usually the middle easterners and muslims who they're supposed to be profiling looking out for and protecting us from cultivations around the world protecting now of course the men from the. these days there's a lot of pushback when it comes to videotaping but taping cellphone cameras they've also opened up a lot for us that's why we got to see the rodney king beating that's why we got to see the murder of oscar grant on video but at the end of the day you know the sentencing when it came to the cop and oscar grant case a lot of people would say was very soft serve as law enforcement when no matter what at the end of the day that's the perception which is what i was saying then it's gotten worse and you take a look at the ask a grand situation i don't believe people do not have any police departments or

unions come up and announce it if anything they want to sacramento in your lobby behind johannes noisily and then he got a light sentence and from what we're hearing he's not really doing hard time it's like a country club jail so the situation is well how egregious does the act have to be for a cop is is just really convicted you know there was an eighteen months for you here in the bay area to finally get this cop on trial and to get a little conviction or you did have well it was a slap on the wrist and the end of the day and then you go all the way back to what twenty years ago with rodney king which is where are the videotaping really came into the forefront and what it owes cops to they got acquitted so i mean for the average person who feels that the police aren't always acting in their best interest video cam videotaping should have been the equalizer and it winds up it's one of not being that way our day want to thank you very much for joining us today and of course you know the reason we're talking.