well on target in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture this steam is running out on board the republican crazy train i'll tell you which state supreme courts are firing back against the republican governors by shooting down the radical agenda as congress extent of the patriot act just in the nick of time tonight but there was one man who gave it its all the protect our constitution rand paul even a broken clock is right twice a day and the lone star state is putting their boot down against intrusive act

details behind a bill that could jail t.s.a. screeners. you need to know this the backlash against union busting republicans is in full swing today a federal judge in wisconsin struck down scott walker's anti-union bill was passed in the dead of night with little notice of the public a judge ruled that the way the bill was asked violated the state's open meeting laws by not giving the proper twenty four hour notice for the public to review that bill in her ruling judge marion so he wrote the court must consider the potential damage to public trust and confidence in government if the legislature is not held to the same rules of transparency that it has created for other governmental bodies our form of government depends on citizens trust and confidence in the process by

which our elected officials make laws at all levels of government the state supreme court will take up the case next week meanwhile in nearby ohio there's a bad news for another union busting governor former fox news talking head john face a just a half a year. he was a life with the office just a few months after he signed a controversial anti-union bill into law a new poll by public policy polling shows that if the election were held again today case it would be blown out by twenty five points a new poll also puts basics disapproval rating at a lofty fifty six per person tying him with florida governor rick scott as the most unpopular governor in america whether it's the union boss dinners stripping away our social safety nets it took less than six months for these radical republicans to wear out their welcome with voters so will today's outrages translate into a democratic surge in the polls next year here and talk about this issue is john

nichols russian correspondent at the nation magazine john welcome it's great to be with you it's great to have you back john thank you very much what does it mean that this law in wisconsin was struck down in order that one of the consequences of this is going to be and you know down the road the longer the larger a longer meeting. it was a big deal on two levels first this means that now more than three months into the fight governor scott walker has not been able to implement his agenda and the core part of his agenda is to shut down the state's public employee unions to make it impossible for them to collect dues and it really function not merely in the workplace but in a little sneer so that's a big deal he clearly did not know and boy even if the republicans try to bring it back at some point you sure it's very very significant that's one level the second level is the public image their public impression you have a very respected jurist somebody who has not been seen as a big liberal stepping out and saying that he walk or administration and its allies

have attempted to break the law in fact have broken the law of wisconsin in order to push their radical agenda that helps a lot i think for those who are trying to suggest that this governor and his allies have gone too far can you give us the the ten or twenty second version of what this law was that got struck down and and what it would have done had it not been struck . sure the governor tried three budget repair bill i.e. a bill to add a little bit of money move it around to put in radical construction labor unions in wisconsin what the law would have done had it gone into effect would be to strip unions of most of their collective bargaining rights and also to make it almost impossible for them to function both in the workplace and in the political setting as an ongoing and so it's very destructive unions but it will also have a lot of other components a great power grab by the governor that allowed him to take over programs like

senior care and badger care those are medicare based or medicaid based health care programs and that really dial them down and also to sell off with my hands to contributors without getting process so a lot has been shut down here. it was a sweeping attempt to grab power and to take power away from his own ok so now this goes from what essentially was an appeals court to the state supreme court if i have this right and and you know this republican judge i mean it's not a partisan election but this walker friend mr prosser just won reelection to that court and he's the swing vote is isn't a probable that when this hit hits the state supreme court the the scott walker is going to get his victory i don't know that first off restart another day or so to figure out whether that supreme court race is settled i joined kloppenburg to challenge justice process or is still considering whether to file

a legal challenge to the process and to argue that there were so many irregularities that a judge should look at it that might be late in the ceiling of justice process that we don't know and certainly remains in some conflict beyond that i think we have to be careful about presuming that he three or four conservative justices on this court will necessarily vote to he's actually got the open meetings law. in wisconsin just to judge sunni's ruling was very very clear and very very small d. democratic government i suspect there's at least a possibility that even some conservative justices might go along with that we all need to remember earl warren for example were appointed as i recall by eisenhower you know a good conservative republican or did the koch daddy and the john birch society hate him and what's the latest. you have what's the latest on the wisconsin recall . there's

a lot going on through the recalls have been sort of fight these are efforts to remove republican state senators who align themselves with the walker agenda and three. key votes came from republicans who represent districts they could very easily elect a democrat i know those cases that recalls have been certified they're going to go ahead three more recalls republican senators are now in play and likely to go ahead and usually there are three potential recalls of democratic senators those are still being what it all adds up to is the likelihood that on july twelfth or thereabouts we will have elections a process was gunson that will quit governor walker's agenda to the chest if you change really remove his supporters john thank you so much for being with here with us tonight it's a good story a good story john thanks for having me on i push it beyond union busting let's not forget what happened in tuesday's election in new york's twenty sixth district

where voters rejected the republicans radical plan to privatizing medicare republicans have already forgotten that yesterday just one day after their plan to privatized medicare was rejected by the voters of new york state all the republicans in the united states senate except for five voted to privatized medicare and paul ryan budget plan was rejected in the senate on wednesday but not before republicans lined up to sign their name to it all in all only nine republicans out of two hundred eighty eight in both the senate and the house had the courage to say no to any medicare as we know it. now it's up to the democrats to make those these republicans who want to throw ground off the cliff where their votes are around their neck into next year's elections. the patriot act was set to expire for the first time in nearly ten years president obama and congressional leadership on both sides of the aisle and sista that this

extension of the patriot act must get done but they were ran into a snag earlier this week all week the man standing in the way of the patriot acts renewal was rand paul who offered up eleven amendments to the bill leaving it stalled in the senate up until just a few hours ago and it should be noted that other courageous senate democrats rand paul of course republican defied harry reid in expressing their concerns in opposition to the patriot act senators ron wyden and mark udall for example pointed out the both the bush and obama administrations have secret interpretations of the patriot act that make it even more toxic to transparency and a mocker see it was rand paul who spoke out the loudest ultimately rand paul was defeated and a patriot act extension was passed just before the deadline in both the house and the senate as i speak that bill is being loaded onto a military jet if you fly faster than the speed of sound over to france to be and delivered the president to sign right before the clock strikes midnight here in

washington d.c. that means four more years of big brother government but i want to recognize rand paul here for a moment and share with you some of the words he had to say yesterday during debate on the floor of the senate. this is pretty pretty straightforward stuff he started out by talking about how the constitution of the united states as we stood all of these years right up until nine eleven the bush hysteria the anthrax attacks right up until then we the constitution made it through the the war of eight hundred twelve the votes in america to war the civil war the spanish-american war the world war one world war two vietnam i mean the constitution has been attacked now we've got to blow it up is what rand paul is it. is just a douche and strong enough that we could actually capture terrorism capture terrorists and protect our liberties at the same time should we have some rules

that say before they come into your house before they go into your banking records then a judge should be ask for permission there should be judicial review do we want a lawless land do we want to land that is so much without restraint a government without restraint that it any point in time they can come into your house we were very worried about that that's why our country was founded on principles such as the fourth amendment to protect and speaking of the fourth amendment the fourth amendment explicitly says this is the language of it insincerity it's a one sentence amendment to the constitution it says the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects and you could argue that these days in fact most people do it because these papers is the same thing as you know what's on your computer but the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be

violated and no warrants shall be issued. but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized in other words you cannot invade someone's home or their papers or their privacy without somebody swear under oath before a judge that they believe that a crime has been committed and then the judge issues the warrant and this is what rand paul had to say about that. i believe that we would stop terrorism but do it in a constitutional fashion where you would have a warrant issued by a judge sometimes a real enough time to do that at three in the morning judges are routinely called when someone is accused of rape when someone is accused of murder when there is an alleged crime we get warrants and it works and it's worked for two hundred twenty five years until we decided to throw out the constitution we now if we're going to

blow up the fourth amendment the legal way to do that is to actually amend the constitution to say you know the fourth member doesn't count anymore but to amend the constitution requires a two thirds vote of congress and then and then has to be submitted to the states and three quarters of the states have to ratify it that obviously is not what happened today in the united states house and senate but rand paul correctly pointed this out. we threw up our constitution with the patriot act because we changed the constitution not by two thirds in this body voting for it and not by three fourths of the states but by a scared fifty one percent who threw out their liberties they said make me say i want to be safe i'm afraid make me safe but they gave up their liberties i think it was a mistake and i think so and i think it was a mistake too and while i disagree vehemently with rand paul on things like his desire you know he voted against the. paul ryan and i meant it privatized medicare

because you couldn't figure what part of he wanted you just do way with medicare he wants to just do away with social security i you know i don't typically he's a libertarian and you know as i've always said libertarians are republicans who want to smoke dope or be allayed they want to wheedle decriminalize drugs and prostitution but basically there are republicans but on the constitution rand paul and his father ron. at least in this case i should just say at least i mean with their go to war powers also these guys are spot on now they don't understand what the phrase general welfare means which is in the constitution the general for clause that says that basically you know the the job of congress is to raise taxes and spend money to promote the general welfare of the people things like public schools that rand paul and ron paul are opposed to but on this issue this patriot act these guys were spot up as were a number of other courageous democrats and you know when we were putting this thing

together this morning and it looked like he may actually block it because it was going to expire so night. when i was first organizing this rant my thought was to say please call your member of congress and tell them to vote with rand paul and with you know ron wyden and mark udall and the others who were trying to stop the paycheck bernie sanders are saying. but now it's a done deal nonetheless i would still urge you to contact your two senators your member of the house of representatives and call the white house comment line and just express your disappointment. that our constitution has been shattered or at least a whole has been ripped out of it by the patriot act in the hopes that maybe some change in legislation can come down the road over the next year to something like that or that if further unconstitutional legislation comes forward that they will

think twice before that but just blow up our rights like this this is just fundamentally wrong and and we all need to be citizen lobbyists on behalf of the constitution what you know what happened after nine eleven basically it was that it you know and after the anthrax attacks and before the anthrax attacks the two senators that this thing had to go through tom daschle and pat leahy pat leahy in the judiciary committee tom daschle running the senate they were both expressing a lot of reservations anthrax came everyone got frightened it's time for us to tell our legislators and there's no need to be afraid anymore the constitution is strong we can respect. coming up don't mess with texas i'll tell you why lawmakers down there proposed a bill for rest t.s.a. screeners.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think. even on the well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you get their freedom. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture.

so if you don't have plans to fly to texas for a summer vacation if so it may be time to reconsider that texas independent streak is showing itself again as these texas state legislature is considering a bill that allows state police to arrest t.s.a. screeners and throw them in jail for up to one year for their intrusive groping downs the bill is radically unconstitutional as a puts restrictions on federal agents from doing their jobs and the u.s. department of justice issued a warning to texas yesterday saying that if the law were adopted then quote t.s.a. would likely be required to cancel any flights or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew and translate that into english you can't fly an airplane out of texas now i know most of us have a problem with the growing checks in the church up for no x. ray scanners is what texas is doing really the best remedy here author his take is

texas state representative david simpson is joining us from the capitol building in austin texas representative simpson welcome to the program. thank you for having me is this the best way to confront the t.s.a. certainly with you in spirit here but. i'm not sure that well your take on well is certainly the best way actually at the duty of texas legislature legislators to do this that we swore an oath to the u.s. constitution and the state constitution both of which. have parts of the constitution that requires to protect citizens from under reasonable searches and. the point a moment just says that we're protected against unreasonable searches of our persons or effects our papers. and i don't think there's any federal law that requires or allows. agents of the federal government to touch us in our

private parts without probable cause and this would be sexual assault in any other context and we put a defense in the bill that if there is a federal dollars federal statute passed by congress that's found constitutional and then and an agent acts in accordance with that law it's a defense to prosecution we're not trying to figure a fight with of pets but we are intent on upholding the u.s. and texas constitution which protect citizens from under reasonable searches and the state and federal government should be heeding those statutes representative i flew to and from germany of about two three months ago and there were no chertoff or no x. ray scanners and when i asked the people at the you know where they put your x. your bags through the x. ray machine essentially take off my shoes of the woman who's doing the screening

laughed and said no we're not afraid like you are in america. i think the u.k. is the only other country that still doing this and and these charities chertoff forno x. ray scanners i think we're the only country that has them. isn't and so aid we're letting flights in from europe and other countries that don't do this b. couple of weeks ago i went to the correspondents' dinner here in washington d.c. spent two hours in the room with the president of the united states and his wife and all i had to do to get through security to do that was walk through a metal detector and get winded if i if i triggered it they didn't even ask me to take my shoes off doesn't this all show that this is not real security that this is security. i agree about a month ago a t.s.a. agent undercover agent went through the scanners five times over the course of the week with a handgun and was never to checked it if it had gone through the metal detectors

would have been found every time so what they're proposing is an effective and you know if they really want to be effective shut down the scanners and stop groping people who don't want to be seen neck if they're treating not wanting to be seen neck and or irradiated has a reasonable suspicion so they parrot you down and it's not a pat down i mean it's an invasive touching a breast lift thing lifting them up touching genitals it's absolutely unreasonable to send them through the detectors with bunch more reasonable yeah that's what other countries do and it's i just you know for me when i was when i went to the correspondence dinner this is just this giant aha you know that. all these members of congress michael chertoff himself was sitting ten feet from me through the dinner i mean he walked through and he didn't have to go through one of the pointed scanners that he's the lobbyist for the selling anyhow do you think that the department of justice is bluffing when they say that they're going to restrict air travel in and out of texas vs passed this law. i certainly do and. first of all

didn't even read the legislation they said we were going to shut down all searches that's absolutely false we're going to draw a line in a search without probable cause like they perform at the airports or to the courthouse or to the capitol here or any public place where you access for transportation or public building that you can't touch their private your privates without probable cause that it's either got to be there or a body cavity and i think it's completely reasonable and it doesn't by any federal statute and that's that's the other absurdity of it is is that you know as we speak right now there are people on airplanes someplace who are smuggling either drugs or diamonds stuffed into body cavities and it could just as easily be c. four plastic explosive and so what's next you know bend over here is that i mean

you know i'm getting some graphic here but it's like this just this seems like a really weird slope that we're going down and what's what's the timeline we just have a minute left here so what's the timeline for your legislation. well regrettably last night was the normal deadline there are is possibility we can attach this legislation to other legislation and see it to the still pass the senate it did pass completely unanimously and second and third reading out of the house and we had all thirty thirty one almost complete unanimous support and the senate and then about twelve senators fell off when the department of justice sent their false and misleading letter and they didn't have time to evaluate it but i'm still hoping that we can pass it with other legislation or the governor might.

call a special session or read to stripping and perhaps identify this is emergency legislation ok representative said simpson keep us updated thank you for being with us tonight thank you for having me the t.s.a. has a legitimate problem on their hands with intrusive pat downs but for once can republicans do something productive and constitutional to solve the problem with rick perry in charge of four but we'll see where this thing goes. it's the good the bad of the very very when soon do see notably the good basin the dog back in april twenty seventh in alabama tornadoes snatched mason out of his family's garage and swept it probably far away mason's owners have given up fearing

that he was killed in the trunk for a monday more than three weeks after the storm yes i'm sure the back at home base. he's got two broken legs and they're just a radio owner fractures they've not been able to be in alignment so neither one of them in the field so he had to call on two broken legs to get home mason is healing now and there are talks of making him a mascot for storm survivors who says that we can learn a lot from our four legged free runs the bad dick cheney the former vice president and man without a pulse gave the keynote address at an energy conference yesterday during a question and answer session cheney was asked what he thought about paul ryan as plans to privatizing medicare and he had this response. i. worship the ground right walks. the whole mostly talented individual and he's

trying to do the right thing. the service support all the support we can provide. cheney worships the ground the paul ryan walks on for anyone who is on the fence about the ryan plan let's hope it endorsement from dick cheney convinces you it's a bad idea and a very very ugly florida congressman dan webster in a recent radio interview the ford. republican play the ultimate trump card in the debate over president obama's plans for peace in israel claiming god may turn on us and so do i like foreign aid sometimes but not everything else and i don't like giving money to enemies but i love giving money to israel and so i think there's there's a picture there that people realize that we stop helping israel we lose god's hand we're in big time threats right look i know the israel issue is complex and needs a lot of debate but can we not place apocalyptic apocalyptic consequences on it

leave the doomsday talk to glenn beck and other right wing lunatics who are very very. coming out the bulk of our summer seafood supply usually comes from overseas but it light of a new radioactive leak at the fukushima plant in japan or we should save to indulge our shrimp salads and crab cakes. but. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think the plumbing.