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free. free. free. free. for your. radio gun tard. rocking the lower show or you'll get the real headlines with none of them are safe right now live in washington d.c. now today will take a look at what agreed the fall could mean for the u.s. economy but also have some startling footage on our t.v. reporter on the ground amidst the protests and the chaos in greece we'll get to the bottom of the f.b.i.'s new guidelines and tell you why they should worry you and we'll speak to atticus baron of the young turks on the economy of sex but first let's take
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a look at how the worthless mainstream media is proving itself to be today while missing all the bigger stories. are hearing yesterday we gave chuck todd a hard time because in the midst of all the problems facing this country which i will not recount every single one of them right now but he watch the show on a regular basis are well aware of the high level of unemployment the housing crisis multiple wars the erosions of your civil liberties and those are just to name a few will see all those things they didn't make chuck's must ask list when talking to and curry about her interview with the president or the very first thing we asked about was brock obama's opinion on wiener gate you know i always rubs you the wrong way just a little bit when you see a journalist getting to interview the president one on one on one particular day and then getting reminded of what she does every other day. with her sister off the market to the milton is now being called the most eligible bachelor read in britain
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and now reported split from her longtime boyfriend is raising all kinds of eyebrows and he says jenna channeling is at buckingham palace this morning jenna good morning yes. this is no stranger to the spotlight. but it wasn't until the royal wedding when she walked behind her sister in that form fitting dress that she gained an international family. yeah that's right she's over the whole interviewing the president think let's just move on if the middle thing let's dumb down the american people just a little bit more so we can spend less time having to do any real thinking ourselves you know that's the overall strategy the mainstream media states but can somebody remind me again then why and kerry gets to interview the president because he knows he'll go easy on him because she's so busy studying up on all the latest celebrity and royalty gossip i mean that's just frustrating but anyway let's move on to the story that really took the cake this morning and as n.b.c. had a big announcement to make their investigative team did some serious digging as to why newt gingrich's campaign staff all abandoned him and after this long and
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arduous investigation this is what they came up with. every single use of after going through with new details on the real reason top staffers for newt gingrich suddenly for the nearest exit some say was about his closest adviser one example would campaign brain couldn't take off early in the mornings because your courage and sisterhood. would push back. when required to take our campaign insiders say the problem circling around the room with his third wife calista you know publicly supportive wife he would say privately commanding. really you devote your precious resources to do an investigation as to why no one wants to work with a man who's trying to become the president and that's what you come up with but i'm not going to get into the noxious miss of the whole blame the woman attitude. at least not yet that's later tonight on our show but i just can't help but wonder why
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they wouldn't do some investigative work on other stories like how about representative peter king's second round of hearings that took place today on capitol hill about american muslim radicalization you don't like to story the media hasn't heard about well the first time around they devoted a lot of time talking about the dangers to society of peace hearings post some critics are calling this a straight up witch hunt and congressman king a throwback to joseph mccarthy defenders so when the threat of homegrown terror is real and growing and while the administration worries about the message the hearings themselves are sunday some are asking if congressman king's hearings could have the unintended consequence of increasing the number of radicalized muslims and making them harder to find you know your critics say they they say you're a bigot there's a there's an op ed in the new york times today by a guy named bob herbert who says he's comparing you to joe mccarthy. so why haven't all of that so many questions so many concerns about the message about islamophobia
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now zilch because some of the initial hysteria died down let me just give you a few bits of information about the hearing that was held today to focus this time was on the threat of muslim american radicalization within american prisons and once again it peter king painted this threat incredibly serious most of the witnesses however admitted that while there have been occurrences and it's worth looking into these cases are very rare in fact twenty ten report by the congressional research service concluded the prisons haven't played a large role in producing homegrown terrorists all the more reason not to have this specific hearing american prisons are dangerous places not only are they overcrowded but they are filled with violence and there are recruitment is going on at all levels of the bloods the crips the asian gangs the hispanics gangs the white supremacist organizations as well as to radical islam on islam. and all of that is worth keeping an eye on all of that. it is worth investigating as a number of lawmakers pointed out at the hearing today there is no need to single
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out one prison group you see this is a larger systemic problem so why doesn't the media spend a little time dwelling on that investigating the fact that more people die in the u.s. from gang violence and they do from terrorism and that's again why we have the largest incarceration system in the world looking into the money that keeps that prison system alive and that's getting why we have elected officials who are willing to shut out that larger problem dizzier zero in on one single group and create more distrust i guess that calista gingrich is just so much more fun and that's what they missed today. and there's a debate here in the u.s. about raising the country's debt ceiling but most americans probably could care less about the issue that's not the case if you go to greece the country is close to bankrupt and today members of parliament were scheduled to vote on another round of austerity measures but some twenty thousand protesters tried to block lawmakers from voting by clashing with riot police r t sir firth takes us to the front lines
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of this protest. the clashes between the police on the protesters still thank god can see some of the hands of the state you can head to build a fire in the crowd you can see the destruction of things along the sides larry that would build a base of. people hey i want to see exactly what's going to go to the game and the police trying to find out the pilots still breaking out nobody much still i love the people on the street the nice people just didn't like the gas must tell they really don't want anyone to feel that it's been said that the people who are at the height of the provoking the police the people still beating back on suspensions play vinay you can have a cigar still being such by the place they turned out to take us to get a place to start and i said there i go about economic situation has been happening in that country and they want it and when we had the same example the protests turned violent and till the end but you can see the chaos happening help in
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pakistan right at this very moment that is absolutely chaos on the street the police call it the place we were nice a sense of where the takeouts of think that so i can tell you it's not a pleasant experience to be caught up great. numbers of people who could not remember really quite carried. out people. in the street to take sides. in a favor really not see saw people getting old it's like it's not the mike tyson escalate that. you could see right up there the police maybe getting closer to that going to be another round of take us on the map today. that. they would. cause you think i want to feel nothing will there. be something for you still coming right up. to filming. ok.
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ok right now it's very hard to fill it up right but i want to say this it's a difficult topic on the streets right now we've got to find it. you've got to take out. you got to take up with me. all right guys right. now that's a good that i got a large number of these people are actually. you can see this right like he told the guy once he told us office ok. ok got to go from. the right. they got. the price was. still trashing the guy but the great love these people like you want to see because. now for the time being the contrast between the
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situation on the streets of the u.s. couldn't be more stark from what we just saw greece which is teetering on the edge as we saw from our g. correspondent sara first report the possibility of even more austerity measures in greece in exchange for another round of bailout money causing anger and chaos throughout the country currently some sixteen percent of the greek workforce and forty two percent of fifteen to twenty four year olds are out of work there that's seems i can stage and is spreading as finance minister has made no progress on how to address responding problems we're seeing the prices of portuguese and irish bonds fall fast we see spain's banking system experience a jump and borrowing from the european central bank and you have to start wondering if this is the beginning of a real collapse in europe u.s. politicians meanwhile well they're taking their sweet time debating rising raising the debt ceiling and even toying with the idea of a default time run out sooner than we think if greece goes under how does that affect the u.s. joining me to discuss this is michael pentodes senior economist at euro pacific capital michael thank you so much for joining us tonight well. i'm fine thank you
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for starters i just want to know what your. take is on the situation in greece do you think that this is unstoppable do you think that it is bound to happen. well it'll reach three hundred forty billion euros and here it is on three hundred sixty percent of g.d.p. when you reach that level there is nothing you can do but he fought a lot doesn't mean just on the floor i was in any income from. from the reduction if you can interest rate dutch but some restructuring will occur . now i think of her money as well. not only reach the united states because we are. going to war joy in the. us what i want to what i'm wondering is that i feel like a lot of americans think that the situation in greece what's going on in europe itself far removed from that that it really doesn't concern them but let's say that
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we do see this restructuring where do you see these default go on in greece what's natural down effect going to look like how's that going to affect the u.s. recovery which at this point is already starting to look like it's taking a lapse and going into a double their personal recovery which could be artificially generated by blowing up or be inflating the bubbles and trying to unseat it consumption badai i begged and i made this point very clear we increased the total each trade in of the u.s. ninety percent in the last eight years a lot. straighter yet. it has a two year low to it regularly agreed to you're not issuing at the senator saying that the time and interest rate can't you know stage lou will research. which you will lose in the process over time. what i know i'm curious about
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because some economists argue and will get back to these the. an answer now a question because some argument economists argue including ariel repeating that it actually could be good for the u.s. if we start seeing so much trouble in europe in japan because then investors will undoubtedly flock to whatever they still think is the safer save bet out there which are u.s. treasury bonds but do you think of that is sustainable or could there be a bubble going on this is the biggest gold. initiation in this country's three point. go ahead with your jet plane to be white to twenty basis points so you know negative real interest rate in this country he said yeah i wonder. why. the only. ration skyrocketing is. only
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then really i know you use a showy depression as either oh my goodness you're right you can asked the question some. yeah definitely prefer it if you did so since we're talking about greece i just think of this is something that most americans don't make the connection that the european economy has cracked on the us economy so if we do in fact see greece tumble then what happens to america how does that trickle down to us or. the game is owned by greek banks. ninety six percent is owned by europeans so even if greece goes the european banks go under if the european banks will only be your. line and china is rapidly raising. great and they are also i don't really see that existence of mind i think. also let's say good bad situation does
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actually happen right that greece goes down that european banks then go down do you think that american politicians are still going to be twiddling their thumbs and playing around with the idea of not raising our debt ceiling ok so i don't know you very well on your question. what gets you going braised it was possible to push the right way right. jake surely exhausted he. was raised tens of. michael i am not a believer of arsons g. a debt ceiling because i think that it just becomes a political game that politicians get to play. but at the moment that's exactly what they're doing and they're holding the entire economy hostage so do you think a big can still hold it hostage if greece or a greece and europe go down the line what will you say hostage. that says the only quarrel we're key point three trillion dollars in debt or is supposed to be
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a joke surely which means it's too close to be there is any. reason the only shoot when she truly. school should be supporting striker billion interesting it so there isn't going to be the sort of the cuts are very. well stereo. and that's something you desperately need if you want to. chase the rat beast to do this through your relation your. wireless router you think we would actually see that same scenario play out here in the united states where we've seen an increase we've seen it in the u.k. we think americans would be riding marching on the screens going up to protest at the capitol building. to sixty six don't stop to sure state just because we're americans if we assume you are scary here if we are places we are right now we are all grassroots or interest rates which we will
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not have enough. time to search that debt and you have a severe crisis just like you are used to show us the miracle and the eye of the law little kids three dollars to the united states so the lessons were really i could say to this country love dearly is doing everything you can right now. but. as you. are the more reason we're covering a story and telling americans to look over our what's going on in greece and for it may come here mike i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight. now there's still much more to come on tonight's show the week of a grand jury is underway it now xander a virginia i'll tell you who was subpoenaed to appear today and updated f.b.i. manual gives their agents a lot more leeway when it comes to conducting an investigation that is given too much on check our when it comes to investigating you will be right back with that.
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ensure that only the military mechanisms to do the work up to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is a. hard look at the big picture.
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let's not forget that we had an apartheid. i think. one well. we have the government says they're keeping safe get ready because the freedom.
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so i had a wiki leaks grand jury meets again in alexandria virginia with several people who have now been subpoenaed from boston massachusetts in attendance now one of these people is a frequent guest on our show he's also co-founder of the bradley manning support network david house when we spoke the house just last week he couldn't comment comment much on the subpoenas that were issued in the boston area but today new details are coming out how's amongst other people in boston travel to alexandria to answer a line of questions from the grand jury which is secretly determining if we can leaks act that in violation of the espionage act however people aren't taking this opaque actions of a grand jury lying down so there are currently protests underway in boston and outside a courthouse in alexandria over the way in which the government is treated david house a vocal bradley manning supporter as we told you in the past houses one of the few
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people who was able to visit bradley manning on he was detained at quantico and one of the few who openly spoke out about is inhumane treatment while being held there coincidentally palace was also subject to several searches and seizures when he was crossing the border homeland security and border control agents took his laptop at an airport without providing a valid reason and repeatedly subjected him to random questioning about his involvement with wiki leaks and this is what house told me when i interviewed him on june sixth it's important to note that the u.s. government has not been legislated in the authority to clean devices the border they have come to claim this is already on the road they say roche the government we can take you stop the border there's very little legal. and we hope that this case will outline that the u.s. government should actually try to war it before season in need of voices from any person trouble across the border. wow what a shocker the government overstepped their bounds or once again and even is doing this on a page from the headlines it's clear the government is pursuing its campaign against
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weiqi leaks as vigorously as ever so it's just beginning we've got the outcry the government's witch hunt against wiki leaks month after month while details surrounding today's events remain hush hush but continue to uncover what we can so that you can get the full story of the obama administration's war against not only wiki leaks but everyone that they feel might be involved with that. now just the other day we told you about the f.b.i.'s new guidelines will soon be issuing as reported by the new york times the loosening of the rules of the f.b.i.'s general counsel is described as a fine tuning or rather the major changes but isn't really how the changes include allowing agents to search a group or person proactively without having to make any records of it allowing them to tail people more than once during a proactive assessment searching people's trash to find a potential informant and standing up to five meetings of a group undercover and eliminating extra supervision of investigations of politicians or journalists if they are witnesses or not suspects and eliminating
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any protections for low profile so let's get to the bottom of why these changes matter here to discuss this with me is julian sanchez a research fellow at the cato institute thanks so much for being here tonight always a pleasure starters then the f.b.i. just gave some of their guidelines about three years ago and has there been something drastic that's happened has this that the dated them loosening them again no you wouldn't think that was arguably having a more substantial revision of the guidelines on your case see. the bundled together and reshuffled a bunch of categories of investigation again committing much more proactive and as they put it at the time. enabling agents of greater flexibility and proactively trying to ferret out national security threats you know there's a great we've changed some of the risk but now we have all the flexibility we need to. national security threats before they become a problem now it turns out according to f.b.i. general counsel crony those you know radically loose rules are now too cumbersome
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the idea that they have to open an assessment without any kind of factual basis to make a record in a database in some cases maybe ask a supervisor that is too much and this is a huge problem when you consider the track record of the f.b.i. is. revealed by a series of inspector general investigations that found but again and again surveillance powers were misused when there wasn't any kind of paper trail when people didn't have to worry that their misuse of authority was going to be uncovered and that indeed when they tried to institute supervisors tried to institute recordkeeping the agent said no no it's too cumbersome they said the same thing it's too cumbersome we don't want to do all this paperwork turned out to be that they think suspected that they were misusing the law that they were circumventing the checks that were put in place to limit that authority and so now the inspector general told told us we can't actually say with any great precision
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how many people's records were seized you know how how serious steve uses were because the record keeping was not great more searches more prying into records without even a paper trail so that when something you know if when really someone in the f.b.i. decides to misuse their authority. it's very again i mean it's absolutely ridiculous to me that the fact that it's just too cumbersome for them to hack you ask somebody were to write it down and i can only imagine you know how far these abuses will go because then you know they were going to start looking up their neighbors or somebody they just don't lie and i feel like you know it really becomes it's a very slippery slope let's talk about some of the other. guidelines here and they're changing the fact that now they can right all through someone's trash if they're thinking about having them be informants and then they can i guess use whatever they find in your trash or against you to convince you to be an informant that sounds like blackmail to me if you get is that sure they would say it's encouragement to cooperate by you know you know i mean trash is usually not
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protected by the fourth amendment but still you know the idea is that these guidelines were put in place you originally f.b.i. guidelines were put in place in the late seventy's after we learned that the f.b.i. you know was able without necessarily violating the law to amass enormous dossiers on. political dissidents. mr infiltration or through posing as you know fellow traveler and the guidelines were supposed to put an end to that and i think we've forgotten maybe why those guidelines wouldn't play put in place close and we were seeing right now you know a lot of pieces that are antiwar activists in this country there are that are complaining because it turns out that they were. being investigated by the f.b.i. that they are being tailed and are trying to actually do something about it to sue so we have a perfect example of where there can be an abuse of these powers and who they can be going after you know another thing i want to talk about huey is you said maybe this is just a clarification when they talk about the fact that if a journalist or
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a politician is part of investigation and they were just a witness then parallel you also don't need to really ask your supervisors about that what does that mean for journalists and for their sources for protecting their sources well this is a million it's a little bit different media here is that if you're investigating a journalist you need to you know sort of have a higher level for you to make sure that you're not doing something that runs afoul of the first amendment and that this is not the kind of thing you have to worry about if it is a journalist has been a victim of a crime that you don't need to sign off to talk to the journalist you know in order to help them you know what inherently i don't everyone consider the journalist right because low profile but blogs are a low level blogs what's not even really mean this is actually i think this is i think actually a genuinely thorny problem because there's you know there's a good reason to say. you know we do want some kind of level of special approval so that when the very sensitive. investigations are are rubbing up against the first time and on the other hand in a world where everyone can start
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a blog as you know as easily as possible you want to be a situation where everyone who ever opened a blogspot account ever in their life is now subject to the same kind of approval on the news or dilute the effect of having this idea that there are certain cases you look at a little more closely so i understand that that makes sense to me that that is a problem. lastly i just want to ask you because of course the f.b.i. general counsel said that these are just tweak this is just fine tuning in any major changes and so we don't need to ask anybody for permission only change these guidelines as long as they call in you know with the broader guidelines given by the attorney general this must be really really really broad guidelines that this is the case you know what i mean there's an incredible shell game that's played here every time the f.b.i. goes before congress to ask for a new legal authority new surveillance powers they always stress that we have these incredibly powerful internal guidelines you don't have to worry about giving us broad powers because these guidelines will make sure that there are checks and balances and no one is able to use the power use the enormous amount of information
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that we've collected and it's available in you know all these digital aggregators that the government contracts with for improper reasons and then when it comes time to revise the guidelines well look it's just our internal guidelines you know we're not getting new powers we're just changing the guidelines and certainly as you know they can't do anything wrong they also just don't have to leave a paper trail and it's very disturbing but thanks for clearing up some of that for us thanks very much any time. so it comes in i said it i read it i respond to your comments that you left on line and can you put a value on that and has the value affect the grief here to more of your becoming sexually active in today's society the subject of a new book out of the fake interest in the. internal mechanisms. to bring justice or accountability. i have the right to know what my government want to know why i actually.

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