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for tonight's tools our war south carolina republican senator jim de mint's is a previous winner here on this show and said i he's back in the spotlight the hard core conservative was on tony perkins weekly radio program a graced us with his brilliant thoughts on the size of government in relation to god's involvement he claimed that the bigger government gets the smaller god gets and according to demand it's really just a simple equation like that i must say for a man who praises christ in its notion that god's power can be limited by federal government is well that of a surprising argument i didn't know god could so easily be diminished by an increased number of bureaucrats but cement it really took a help when he made this comment take a listen. we found we can't set up precision room group because we don't have the

moral of the underpinnings to comb. through i don't think christians. should be told. they should be separate from government policies but crucial america did work with created it. you know that is really stunning news that senator jim de mint's is delivering here democracy only works for christians and society can't be free unless it has moral underpinnings that come from biblical face now think progress pointed out the rather obvious today that india is the world's largest democracy pointed to me and seems to forget indonesia japan turkey are also high on the list of countries with a freedom ocracy in all four of those have a christian population of less than three percent and didn't the greeks come up with democracy invented yet they weren't christians either so jim de mint's argument here seems a little flawed just like most of his policies and that's why he's tonight's all

time winner. the debate over climate change in this country has raged on for years and while those on the left agree with the scientific consensus that climate change is real those on the right willfully choose not to believe facts and in fact republicans are so willing to ignore science the democrats have decided to call their bluff house republicans rejected three amendments offered by democrats on tuesday they would have called for congress to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and it's caused in large part by human activity and it's a threat to human health and all three amendments were offered during an energy and commerce committee meeting trying to block new e.p.a. legislation on climate change from happening here in the u.s. but this move wasn't unexpected as house republicans declared their crusade against the e.p.a. during last year's midterm elections so untrue for now one single republican on the committee voted yes for any of those measures that's thirty one votes against

confirming climate change is real thirty one votes against science thirty one violence against the truth now while the broad consensus among scientists is that climate change is occurring in large part because of human activity republican lawmakers they just don't believe that science apparently being a politician indeed makes you smarter than any scientists out there and many environmentalists and scientists say that a vote by the g.o.p. could actually be a good thing in the long run republicans are now on the record saying that climate change voting climate change is not real so you can bet this information is probably going to be used against them in future elections let's just hope that planet is still around then. it's an emergency n.p.r. must be defunded right now at least that's what house republicans are claiming as they held an emergency meeting of the rules committee today to take up legislation that would block funding to n.p.r.

all the wake of james james o'keefe hidden camera prank on the news organization now of course they're painting this as a budgetary issue but you probably have to wonder if in the middle of an economic crisis defunding n.p.r. is going to solve all of our problems perhaps even more telling is that this new legislation that's being drafted targets only and p.r. not all public broadcasting and i wouldn't just defund it for a while until maybe the economy picks back up but prohibits all funding from n.p.r. permanently so this is just another example of the g.o.p. the temps the defund anything that democrats and i consider important earlier from our studio in new york i caught up with sam seder political host of the majority report and majority f.m. radio i first asked him consider this country is fighting two wars that we're about to reach our debt limits as robots unrest in the middle east as we watch disaster unfold in japan why is defunding n.p.r. individually an emergency. i don't know perhaps some

right wing republican lawmakers can't reach their radio dial i guess and turn the station it's a joke i mean of course it's hilarious i mean this is a classic case of the republicans pretending to be fiscally prudent to or fiscally disciplined and they're using this is simply a way to further their cultural war that they've they've been waging for the past thirty years. yeah and i you know the culture war we're definitely seeing pick up as a way planned parenthood suddenly got defunded too and i think they're really jumping off this recent video from james o'keefe as you know proof the n.p.r. is biased or has a liberal bias and therefore all americans shouldn't pay for it but i find a little frustrating that republicans will use a man like james o'keefe whose entire career is based off of treating people and the law is to show that n.p.r. is biased you. well it's not just that he lies and he presents himself as someone

he's not the fact is that the video itself has been debunked by of all people glenn beck on the blaze but you know i'm in the bottom line is that even if you take the video as he added it there's really nothing there you know internal e-mails from n.p.r. showed that they weren't going to take this money all that this video shows is that some people were uncomfortable but you know far be it for me to to defend n.p.r. in the situation n.p.r. themselves have taken with james o'keefe has done in the past seriously and the guy is a serial fraud so you know this is this is all just a game the republicans like to pretend that they're concerned about the deficit or they're concerned about spending the amount of money that they're talking about is is absolutely insignificant on top of that president obama already suggested the same cuts so the idea that this is an emergency in some way or that they have to

get out in front of this is just proof positive that this is just another one of their culture war shenanigans and frankly it's a joke it's a complete waste of everyone's time and you know i feel like. i mean justified by this example that we're talking about i feel like this country becoming so much more polarized and now i feel like the media you know only makes it easier for that to be that way if we look at the cable networks today the washington post actually he would something new on their web page when it comes to their opinion section you can now choose between the left leaning and right leaning opinion writers i mean what is this world coming to we no longer have any room for nuance we no longer have anybody they can be in and middle and not just one or the other and audiences can't make up their own minds anymore. well i mean look the country is polarized across some pretty serious issues but sadly none of them seem to get addressed by.

our politicians and in terms of you know the the establishment media like the washington post they're just looking for broadwell's and they're trying to appeal to a wide range of people and it seems sort of ridiculous to me but i mean i have the ability to decide who does i want to read i'm not going to melt if i happen to come across the opinion that i don't appreciate you know it's silly it's ridiculous i mean. maybe they should just do the rest of their entire op ed page in on and see if that doesn't pick up a couple more readers but i think that's happening is that while you or i may not melt if we read an opinion that we don't like you know when it comes to other americans out there they may only read the opinions that they like they might never even look at an opinion that they don't like i mean it really just you know falls into this one line tunnelvision way of thinking in america and you know do you think that if n.p.r. just can't be funded permanently which is what the house republicans are now trying

to do rather than just have it go on for a little while and perhaps on the economy gets better and there's going to be a point. well you know look n.p.r. gets not even two percent of their budget operating budget from the federal government so the issue to me is less about n.p.r. and more about the affiliates and the in the local funding and that's more a part of the corporation for public broadcasting so i don't think this is the end of the world if n.p.r. loses this funding i think they're going to be fine i think they may actually be on record as saying it may be easier for them to just deal with what they have to deal with without their federal funding but it really is indicative of the fact that the tea party came to power and they in the guise of the republican party and they claim that they're all about fiscal discipline when in fact these are the same cultural borders we've seen for years and years these are the same people the same thirty percent of people who said george bush was

a great president this is the same people who have a problem with gay marriage these are the same people who have a problem with any type of affirmative action this is all about the culture war for them and in frankly it's a waste of our government resources to actually consider this an emergency i mean. the if the onion covered this story they couldn't do a better justice to i'm totally with you there pat i do not see it as an emergency by any means but do you think that this culture war this polarization is worse than it's ever been before we just we just happen to see so much more of it you know i mean hell thank you the internet and you know getting worse than it's ever been frankly i think it's more or less this is the road we've been on for some time you know it was eighteen or nineteen years ago that path you can get up in front of the republican party and said we're involved in a culture war i think the difference is the republicans have gotten a little bit more savvy about how they present it you know like i say they've come

in and they're doing this under the guise of some type of fiscal responsibility but like you mentioned they're going after planned parenthood. they're going after n.p.r. this is there's no money to be cut there the amount of money we're talking about is incredibly insufficient significant to have no impact on our deficit so it's all a charade and you know i think the worst case scenario for republicans is someone like sarah palin who's a continuance of this of this culture war becomes their nominee in you know i think you see internally in the republican party a real attempt to tack away from it but they can't really escape it now i think you and i are both hoping and wishing and praying that maybe sarah palin will indeed win that nomination sam thanks so much for joining. thank you so to come on tonight's show the u.s. has a history of using drones in hot spots around the world for wait until you hear where these drones are sneaking around now and during the campaign in two thousand and eight he promised the most transparent administration in the white house history

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third. i mean chapter can now be written about the use of drones by the u.s. you know dr drones have been flying along the us mexico border for a while keeping an eye on illegal immigrants and of course we know that they're used in pakistan and yemen for our shadow wars that we wage abroad but also already is from the u.s. and mexican governments are now confirming that drones are going to be used to keep tabs on drug dealers in mexico he member when president obama met with mexican president felipe calderon well apparently they discussed using drones in a joint effort by both countries to stop or at least create a counterattack to the drug war being waged by cartels and we should note that most of the details surrounding this operation are still unknown to the public like how many flights the drones have made thus far we do know but the manger on being used the air force is a global hawk is an army butterflies forty thousand feet in the air and it has

a wide variety of sensors but this new agreement between the two countries also sheds light on how both countries are expanding their efforts to take down the cartels the times is reporting that officials from the f.b.i. the cia the n.s.a. and other intelligence agencies are now working out of a building in mexico city which is being dubbed a fusion center where u.s. and mexican authorities can work together towards being drug free and i'm not really sure how this is going to work is a drone is an arms if it happens to catch visuals of a cartel leader on the move how long on top stories can actually reach them and who gets to fly that the u.s. or the next can officials so many questions let's shift our focus back to where i'm concerned which is the use of drones which are truly the weapon of choice these days for the u.s. and pakistan they're helping us find the enemy but they're also responsible for many civilian deaths the u.s. is also expanding the use of drones for civilian missions they're flying over japan to take note of the damage from the earthquake and tsunami and the department of homeland security is now toying with the idea of using drones to prevent domestic

terrorist attacks and using them within the u.s. airspace however i really doubt i want to become a reality most americans probably have no problem with the. use of drones in other countries but somehow i doubt that they're going to be ok with those unmanned planes patrolling our skies right here at home own guess who's all gung ho when it comes to drones our own secretary of defense robert gates he's been outspoken for years now in the u.s. air force using unmanned aircraft replacing the cold war style bomber jets and in a recent speech gates also said that he hopes that his successor will share his views on the use of drones so i guess this latest move is just more proof of the era of drones is here to say whether they're weaponized or not get used to constant eyes in the sky. now it's become a regular topic of discussion on this program the way to washington or expand in hand with hollywood making the issue of copyright infringement a top priority for the government today the white house proposed major revisions to

the current copyright law asking that two items be added making the act of a legal streaming of audio and video a felony and allowing f.b.i. agents to wire to have anybody suspected of illegal streaming now the obama administration says that deficiencies that could hinder enforcement of intellectual property laws must be fixed and the twenty page document from the intellectual property enforcement coordinator heels was several elements of copyright infringement so let me point out if you keep points from this proposal the document does clarify the government's stance on streaming audio and video saying the infringement by streaming or via other similar technology whatever that is is a felony in appropriate circumstances now we should note that they don't really explain what those appropriate circumstances are either but they definitely want to make a point here that streaming video should be classified as a felony a document also addresses the methods that tech savvy people use when sharing media

online so any software that can remove the copyright protection from things like d.v.d.'s is now considered illegal popular file sharing websites are mentioned in this document and foreign. sites like the pirate bay are also considered obstacles for us in forstmann efforts they also address the expansion of wiretaps by the government up until now the patriot act allowed wiretapping to investigate serious crimes charism weapons of mass destruction but now they want to add copyright and trademark infringement to that list so how who do the people who rips t.v. shows and music albums are as much a threat as terrorists i have to give the white house a little credit here they're really on top of their game with this issue they actually covered all the bases when it comes to ripping media and sharing it online if only gay bay gave this much attention to other actually deserving issues we all know that hollywood is pushing its own agenda here in washington but this is getting a little bit ridiculous a felony for sharing streaming videos with other people online but if we really

look real here the major networks do it for their programs all the drive i want not advocating that people should steal movies or music i do not think that those people should be classified as felons or treated in the same way as terrorists so come on obama please let's get our priorities straight. speaking of happy sunshine week for those of you who weren't aware this is the week in america where we're supposed to celebrate transparency the public's right to know its own government is conducting business on its happened how it's doing that and today president obama was supposed to receive an award for his deep commitment to open and transparent government and that award ceremony was canceled last minute due to the president's schedule but that doesn't mean he won't still be honored with it at some point nonetheless does the president who promised the most transparent administration really deserve this award has he shown a deep commitment to it or has he done it that way the opposite here to discuss the

way it needs were opened up and strategist and kate thanks so much for joining us tonight as always so let me do you think obama really deserves this award on transparency and his supposed the deep commitment to it absolutely i think he does i think he does deserve the award and i think. by presenting the president with this award it doesn't mean that you can't still hold him accountable for fulfilling the obligations to becoming the transparent administration that he committed to when he first took office so i think what he's done so far is quantifiably objectively above and beyond any president up to this point in history i can't tell me what he has because i have a nice little list of what he has not done sure it'll be fun to talk about those here in a minute too because i think you should do a lot more and i'll say that right up front but but this is a president who on the very first day in office released an open government memo that did charge each agency with the task of creating open data so that beyond for

your requests and open for laws and all the different things that the raw data could be released to the public and tasking staff it ministration agency heads with making sure that that was one of their top priorities and being one of the people who has worked with those agencies and worked with those staff i can say that that certainly has been at various points i won't say the whole time but how i'm going to to get. they didn't use it actually comply so great question that's where the. where the rubber meets the road we have not seen as much action and that's where i can say the president and what he can do from the white house really can only accomplish so much at a certain point it really does have to be the people that are appointed in those agencies that have to get the job done and that's really where we've seen a lot of agencies come up short in fact i'd say almost all the agencies a couple really great efforts have been made by folks that have d.o.j. commerce you've seen some really interesting things from of the e.p.a. the department of the interior but you just overall have not seen them really get the job done yet and i think you know we're going to i'm going to just you haven't

seen them get the job done yet you know i mean we're talking about certain right technical things here like opening up the agencies we're talking about this freedom of information act requests which they also had a hard time actually getting people to comply by them the national security archives just released a report earlier this week on that but then there are much larger issues if you ask me the fact that the obama administration has so often criticized the bush administration for invoking state secrets privilege is in the court room has done it many times the obama administration which promised to be the most open and transparent administration is waging a full on war against whistleblowers those are the things that people are going to remember if you ask me i would necessarily personally call a full on war i do think it's unfortunate a lot of the things have gone with with those specific types of you know sort of looking at the for trying him in the you know i think it's you know this isn't just about it or isn't it it is extremely important i'll agree with you there it is when it comes to transparency and revealing who is having influence in our government

this president has used the bully pulpit of the white house and the state of the union address actually which is never been done before to address specific detail issues in certain cases and then really ignored others so of course they fulfilled fewer foyer requests for freedom of information act requests than the bush administration did which seems a little like an oxymoron that you know you could always. it's a little bit like criticizing a team t. for not building more dial up lines right there investing in broadband in net and the reason is because four is outdated it doesn't work we've seen for thirty years it doesn't work and i'm sure some fabulous story that is going to great in for i'm going to cover it thanks to the spoiler if i go so you can access my a.o.l. account some of my beef with you like we said obama hasn't received the award yet but you're saying that there's so much more that he that he can do and this is a president i feel like he's getting awarded based on a promise is based on things that people are waiting for him to do he got a nobel peace prize before he actually spread any peace in this world and here he is was so much work to do want to show his commitment i'd like to see this

commitment and he's already been granted an award so agreed so now the things he has not done he has not pushed in congress that certain bills and laws that need to be passed to be passed the seventy two hour rule a really basic easy piece of legislation that should have been passed years and years ago was put on the floor by by a couple representatives and never pushed by palosi never pushed by the push by the white house is something that could have helped to solve some of the problems we actually have a bill being passed without actually looking at what's in them but is this one of the problems that unfortunately these days we have to feel like we have to settle for less. good question i don't know we should never settle for less we should always hold especially our highest elected official to the highest possible standard that's why we elected him certainly there are pragmatic realities actually getting some of these things on but he has he's appointed a c.t.o. of the united states the c.e.o. to release this information and to figure out the underlying architecture has to happen imagine imagine starting from negative ten right we kind of always assume

that they're starting from zero and working up but they're not they're actually solving old problems for i favor is there any negative want to hear it and maybe were it negative i need five now or something but well i also do get to hope that we get to see this. in the open transparent government jake thanks so much so much for having me as always now before we go to. it is time for our tweeted today hillary clinton said today that she would not serve a second term as secretary of state if obama is elected to a second term as president now on hearing that news what do you think bill clinton would tweet we got if they didn't i was looking forward to globetrotting going to go thousand and sixteen we all know bill probably has a lady on every continent and it's a pretty night show thanks for tuning in make sure you come back tomorrow reasons radley balko will join us in the studio in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and of followers on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other night you can always catch it all the you tube dot com josh he won't show where we close the interviews as well as the show in the entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s.

and around the world. sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. the same the ties between professional football in the u.s. military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand twenty that relationship laments place during world war two and today that bond is stronger than ever and won't be insensitive to kill all kill all he'll be ok some kind of killing in open space history has taught us that sports never just something that we just sit back and mock sports always had an important social function and the history of american sports is no different.

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