freedom is right around the corner for casey anthony she is set to get out of jail on sunday after a not guilty verdict that shocked a lot of folks various reports indicate the florida woman found not guilty in her daughter's death will be living this somewhat like she's in the witness protection program reports say she'll live in disguise and under a pseudonym as if in a witness protection program and sources close to her say she's not planning to alter her looks with plastic surgery. and really you can't just wait until sunday then forget about her again you have to rile people up tell them to her day of freedom is almost upon us so they can run and get their pitchforks ready in case you do figure out where she might be living you know only as much time was spent talking about economic issues that affect real americans or the wars that are continuing to be fought on our behalf all while we're broke and the way that it's making the rest of the world see us then maybe we would see some actual real populist anger that's directed towards the center of all power which is here in washington but the mainstream media would rather distract the masses point them in

another direction to their corporate overlords and their friends in washington just to have to get their hands dirty and deal with any inconveniences i'm going to tell you about another thing that the mainstream media couldn't be bothered with today it came from wired. now if you thought that the u.s. is going to stop holding detainees in afghanistan once they hand over control of the massive jail of blogger of the afghans this year well then you can think again spencer ackerman has exposed more than one upcoming contract that shows the u.s. is planning on building up more jails all across afghanistan i guess there just isn't enough room on our navy vessels now one of these contracts for which we don't have a price was just awarded by the army corps of engineers to an afghan contractor for a quote new u.s. government controlled detention facility apparently they're in a really huge hurry for that one because it needs to be built by november another contract will be for an even bigger detention center worth forty six million dollars and the army will reportedly be. holding

a competition for and yet another contract to our common found is another detention facility of the army corps of engineers express interest in in june and that one is going to come in at a whopping twenty five to one hundred million dollars really twenty five to one hundred but it doesn't show you the type of cache of the pentagon pentagon has to throw around as if a seventy five million dollars difference doesn't matter but i don't know what does and if all that information doesn't confirm to you that we're going to be in afghanistan for a long time to come when you're delusional not only is the war not going anywhere we are also obviously planning on continuing to detain people and since the military already made arrangements to hand over the prisons we have been a let's just build new ones and these also include special holding units that's the maximum security type so you can only imagine what might be going on in there the point is that even if guantanamo bay ever closes we'll still be detaining people all over the world. but that's what the mainstream media chooses to miss because

casey anthony's location is just so much more important. well fed chairman ben bernanke he was back on capitol hill today for his semiannual report to congress on the economy and monetary policy and the rapid turnaround from his last fed press conference a few weeks ago he finally said that further steps to stimulate the economy q e three just might be in the cards but then again they might not all in all it was a maybe but we're not sure it's going to depend here's going to have to wait have an answer but just that little bit was enough to get stocks to shop y's in the market reacting to the possibility of a government default in the same way or discussed as a me as anthony randolph co-director of economic research for the reason foundation and the thanks so much for joining us tonight right now for starters like i said just a couple weeks ago bernanke he had a press conference and there are all the signals were that no we can't have another

round of quantitative easing because risks of inflation are just too high and gas prices are too high right now and food prices are too high and then suddenly now he's maybe opening the door again for that has that much changed well it's not that suddenly if you read the actually explicit statement that the minutes from the up and see meeting bernanke is walking a really fine line here where he is trying to play politics just like the president say to the treasury secretary and what he says he can't in any given moment come out and say nothing we did worked with q.e. two so we need to do q e three at the same time he doesn't want to raise fears about inflation if you really does think inflation is there so he's going to play down inflation but the fed is predicting low inflation but he doesn't want to predict it to be so low that it's just going to be obvious that they will have to do q e three if they don't want to do it's this whole big mix. so today's announcement or to do what he said to congress is. to unexpected it's sort of the

same sort of like playing with the wind like we're kind of cautiously optimistic but we're keeping all the cards on the table the same back and forth well he's also saying of course he's acknowledging that the economy isn't doing so well that we've seen a bit of a slowdown that unemployment is still going to maybe keep taking down but very very very slowly at some point but he also says that all these factors that we're experiencing right now are temporary and so is that just more of the politicking or does he actually believe that specifically he's talking about the things that are impacting commodities prices are temporary so what he's saying is look inflation yes it's four percent over the past five months it's a two point five percent over the past year and inflation hawks say look inflation is up and he's saying no this is because of the arab spring you know hurting oil is because of the japanese earthquake screwing up manufacturing lines so he's saying those things are temporary so inflation is not a problem in the long term but he is very very you know down on long term economic growth he's saying unemployment is going to be

a problem over the long haul and honestly most finance analysts today were saying because of what he said today we're almost guaranteeing there's going to be a q e three and of course who knows the way it this year is going there might just be another natural disaster there might just be another revolution the world is changing very rapidly but what would another two or three actually do for us probably not much more than q.e. two did i mean it was q.e. two did was for my analysis is it mostly help to drive out those commodity prices i disagree with bernanke yeah i think that if you eat a lot more you inflation than just temporary measures what it didn't do is it didn't do anything to boost spending so why q e three why buy even more treasuries it doesn't seem like it's by any chance a wise way to go but i think in october when we had the jackson hole meetings and everybody all the monetary experts come together i think we're probably going to see something like a q e three announcement now like i mentioned so when bernanke he speaks when he says something and suddenly we see the markets reacting and we see docs going up but then. we haven't really seen the markets reacting to this threat of the

possibility of our government defaulting on the debt so i'm just curious as to why that is because wall street is so confident that they're going to reach a deal at the last minute because nobody wants to hurt business or could they be wrong or what exactly do you want to respond to at any given point i mean you could argue that because the stock market isn't twenty percent higher than it is right now that they have been pricing in their fear all along i mean there's. the there definitely is snap judgments on wall street and you know we get bad reports on greece they get downgraded markets go down but basically we're going to probably have a q e three so the market's come back up but the most we have in terms of the debt ceiling is republican says today we're going to stand firm the president says we have to have tax cuts and that's back and forth so much that it's not i think really easy for there to be this nobody has been so much smarter than they have so much more there's a risk in this adrenaline involved if you actually have to go buy everything that the politicians say every day which at this point is they're really changing their

stance every single day i think that mitch mcconnell he kind of blew everyone away as today when he decided to say well maybe we're just going to give obama this deal where it really does decide that raising the debt ceiling and i don't want to master political deals i mean really what is me what if the members of the republican party don't see what he's trying to do they're completely blind because he's giving the g.o.p. a big political win i don't think it's the greatest idea in terms of what's actually good for like the fiscal stability of our nation but in terms of a positive one for the g.o.p. if they go forward the steel they will be able to throw all of the debt problems of the united states of america on the president in the twenty twelve election and i think the white house smart enough to realize that they're not just going to jump at this deal and sure will raise the debt ceiling but it may be that they wind up just having to take this because if the republicans put this on the table and the democrats and the president wind up saying no we don't want that they really could wind up losing in this high speed game of chicken where we all do. well that's

because you know that the g.o.p. finally woke up and realized oh hey you know one of the reason that the government if you call it on its debt that's actually going to look kind of bad for us and you know one of the things that mr mcconnell saying here of course is that he just doesn't want to let obama when he doesn't want to let him win reelection so now he has to finally start making these types of concessions but i don't this is what's wrong with our political system and tell me if you agree with me or not is that only when there is a fear the you might lose an election do you actually start doing something or making any compromises versus i don't know the risk of defaulting on your debt as a nation it was a problem both sides of mcconnell's just being kind of forward with it which you me even call it refreshing to just have and just be i like look i'm not helping the obama two thousand and twelve reelection and on the other hand the democrats been playing politics in the white house and playing politics with this all along we had the tools to solve this months ago would be letting this go down to the line because both sides are positioning themselves for the best possible outcome in the two thousand and twelve election that's all that this really is right now they

could come to any kind of agreement that they want now the republicans they they they have to work out whether or not any kind of revenue is going to bring people perceived as a tax cut that's something that they have to sort out the democrats in the white house they need to sort out look we're more or less in charge here if we let this go we're really going to be the ones who because we actually have to make the call between paying the debt or paying seniors or paying the military that's going to be actually decision that comes from the treasury department so they're going to take a lot of political heat if it winds up coming down to those choices well that's what i'm wondering what's going to happen here too i wanted to play we don't we're out of time but a r.p. has already launched a massive campaign to talk about the threat of cutting medicare and medicaid and then the social security and anything that touches seniors and i'm wondering who they're more afraid of is it going to be seniors the people that actually vote or is it going to be wall street the people that just fill their coffers it's quite a political game here we're going to see who ends up winning in the meantime hopefully we won't have if you talk default thanks so much for joining us. well

still to come tonight we have another example of big business trying to cozy up to washington lawmakers and this time it involves breathalyzers and efforts to keep drunks off the highway more of that in a moment and before he was elected president obama promised reach out to the muslim world well a new poll shows that his efforts have failed big time during a dive into that topic with a ten a colonel anthony shaffer in the senate. really believe something. from. the future however. well the man who used

to be the king of sharing the news has now found himself on the front pages rupert murdoch became the focus of international media after reports started gushing out about his newspaper's illegal wiretapping practices in the u.k. is the world news international they were caught hacking cell phones bank accounts even health records of individuals whose names were in the headlines and goes from murder victims to the families to the families of fallen soldiers and even former prime minister gordon brown. but it was this nexus this criminal media is claiming to be on the side of the mole a british citizen but in fact standing saudi born with criminals against our citizens. now all the former prime minister is calling for investigations into news international and news of the world the unwanted media attention has brought the expansion of the murdoch empire to a screeching halt just days after the news the world shut down for good also with through his fourteen million dollar bid for british sky broadcasting citing the fog

of the phone hacking scandal and despite the fact that current prime minister david cameron is a well known ally of murdoch he came forward an agreement with murdoch decision to drop this bid. this is the right decision in saying that this company clearly needs to sort of problems that news international the news of the world must be the priority. so the right decision so as an investigation is now underway in britain allegations that murdoch's companies hacked the cell phones of nine eleven victims are also bringing the anger to america in fact several lawmakers democrats and republicans are already calling for a d.o.j. investigation into murdoch's news corp here in the states senator jay rockefeller and frank lautenberg have both raised a very fair point if the u.k. news outlets had no fear of dabbling in illegal activities what's to stop the u.s. branches of news corp from doing the same thing and in fact that lumbered went on to say further investigation may reveal that current reports only scratches the

surface of the problem at news corp accordingly i am requesting that the d.o.j. and c.c. examine these circumstances and determine whether u.s. laws have been violated the families of the victims of nine eleven have also come forward supporting the call for a probe into whether or not murdoch took advantage of the personal information for the sake of a big story so as news corp find itself in the middle of the biggest media scandal in the years i think it's just another sign of the very rapidly changing media the competition beef between news outlets for both profits and stories is so intense the more more seem willing to risk their reputation just to be the first ones with the hottest scoop. well i think that it's safe to say that nobody wants to have drunk drivers on the road and day during others there's a group who started the campaign on capitol hill to make sure that convicted drunk drivers stay off the road that sounds harmless enough by now you've probably heard about the breathalyzer devices that are being put into cars for people who are

convicted of both duis and d.w.i. . british if we have to blow into. the moment if they are drunk or sober you will see the start of the problem in turn the normal and drive away without any restrictions. now the thing is the manufacturers of those those devices have now started a campaign to get their ignition interlock included it's a provision in congress as transportation reauthorization bill and campaign is definitely the right way to describe the manufacturer's efforts not only have they hired the best of the best lobbyist to have their voices heard on the hill but the washington times even reports that they are lobbying like mad so in the realtor ization bill there's a drive to withhold up to five percent of each state's highway funding unless that state adds a measure to enforce the device in cars of convicted drunk drivers there's also a proposal on the table that would allocate sixty million dollars to the manufacturers to develop a new type

a device that would detect how close the driver is to reaching the blood alcohol limit probably through skin contact with the steering well so if these measures are passed in the breathalyzer manufacturing industry would quickly be booming and much like to protecting children from internet pornography that we talked about yesterday nobody wants to be seen as being against drunk driving prevention methods so lawmakers of the most part are probably going to sign on and you combine that with all the activist organizations like mothers against drunk driving who will gladly promote these proposals and the alcohol lobbyists don't stand a chance not like i'm even siding with the alcohol lobby is there the point is when you lobby for something will lot of money and. usually pays off and so here these manufacturers they basically just got a grant for sixty million dollars to develop new breathalyzer devices and like i said before i don't believe a drunk driver should be able to roam free on the roadways but i also don't think the drunk driving should become a federal issue nor should it include legislation to favor

a specific manufacturer with money that will help their upcoming business skyrocket . now it's been over two years since president obama gave his cairo speech promising a new start more cooperation and understanding between the u.s. and the muslim world and after eight years of the bush administration it was safe to assume that we had nowhere to go but up when it came to changing perceptions of america but it turns out that was wrong and he be international poll shows that america has become more unpopular in the arab world under obama than it even was under bush and the poll of four thousand respondents across six countries egypt lebanon jordan saudi arabia the united arab emirates and morocco was conducted after obama's latest speech on the middle east just last month so it turns out the killing of osama bin laden actually worsened attitudes towards the u.s. and post revolution egypt only five percent say they have a favorable view of the u.s. which is down from thirty percent in two thousand and nine and those numbers are

even worse for obama himself fewer than ten percent of all respondents have a favorable favorable view of the u.s. president and the overwhelming majority said that the number one issue on their minds remains the impasse over palestinians what is every president doomed to fail as long as the israeli palestinian conflict isn't resolved or is this much more about obama's specific broken promises and expanded wars joining me to discuss this is lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies and he's also still serving as a reserve lieutenant colonel tony thanks so much for joining us tonight if you're so perceptions in the arab world or at least in these six six countries specifically are now worse than they or during the bush administration did you even think that was possible. well honestly i didn't and i think there are reasons why and you mentioned one of them specifically when president obama was running for office he specifically made very broad promises of bettering the outlook and

outreach to these muslim countries and the problem with the problem what has happened is this he's continued the very unpopular that is unpopular new year of world policies of the bush white house we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about frankly the expansion the war into and of tribal areas in pakistan more than even bush did we're talking about libya and obviously you have that yemen has been another area where we expanded operation so you have that at the same time you have and i'm going to say this is going to be very popular less effective outreach from the state department as much as i think secretary of state hillary clinton is trying to do some some good i don't think she's been able to reach out and actually establish a broader link of of the relationships would have helped our image therefore you kind of have the worst of both worlds you have very high expectations which have not been met if he's gone and not actually follow through and that's why you see the results you do now i'm interested now because obviously a lot of the flack always gets put on president obama himself but what it what does

it do you think specifically that hillary clinton isn't doing right. well i let's let's take pakistan for example everybody recognizes how bad things are with pakistan and i think you got to do the good cop bad cop thing here i mean you really do i mean everybody does it you really need to have a state department who is seen as kind learned gentler trying to do their outreach trying to work with people and you might have a department offense in the form of a secretary gates playing hardball and his case you had essentially kind of the reverse you had secretary of state clinton badmouthing the pacs and then who do you go to if you can't go to our state department for outreach so this is been kind of the record the same in egypt i think we've missed clinton has reached out to the muslim brotherhood but what about the christians i mean you know jesus so i think even if the muslims are getting attention they kind of see that well you know you promised this inclusive thing and and things are really going what you said they would so i think what we've seen here is a reality that doesn't match the rhetoric and i think that again that's where we're

seeing a lot of this this problem come from now if we look at the numbers are specifically like i mentioned in egypt of only five percent of people there now see the u.s. favorably that means that ninety five percent of the cambodians post revelation do not so this is probably a good sign of what's to come and what type of governments are going to start seeing pop up after the arab spring what our foreign policy is going to be affected by i was a congress today on energy summit in downtown d.c. and admiral blair was there and i'm going to say this a lot of he didn't get it he didn't understand the basic roots of some of the issues relating to the fact that what we did prior to say two thousand and one is we focused on basically keeping a lot of the states kind of on our side through their leaders and now we're seeing kind of the reaction of all people waking up and trying to throw off the the blight of their leadership we were associated with that leadership so all we have to do is actually outreach to the people this is why we're continuing to fail to do i think

we're trying to go through intermediaries in many ways which don't really don't help us. the people have to be convinced we're on their side in this point of time they're really not i'm curious to what you think of the fact you know like i mentioned the number one issue that this survey stat was on people's minds is of course the israeli palestinian conflict and every american president for decades has been trying to solve this issue but i'm also wondering if that's becoming a bit of a copout because james zogby even said that he spoke to the president about this poll that he was going to conduct and obama basically said well i expect the numbers to be low because israel palestine is just such an intractable issue out there and so i'm wondering if this starts being something of a get to blame it on without actually taking responsibility for israel actions like you mentioned with drone strikes and expanding our wars and going into libya. well i think that obviously this white house has proven itself very wall of passing blame off to others and i think in many ways you're actually correct to regarding

situation with that said the palestinian situation is something that's not going to go away anytime soon frankly i think he had a mismatch his people i think frankly holbrooke may have been a better choice before he died of working the issue and the syria there says we had and i think this is for you know we can't back away i've been actually talking to some folks who were involved in it before and it's one of those situations for we cannot neglect it because if we neglect it it'll get worse but we have the brutal truth is you have to have the right people the right personalities working this and until you do you will continue to see failures i think number of presidents have picked the right people and i'm not a big fan of president clinton but he did a great job of trying to do the right outreach in a lot of situations he is credited for helping the northern ireland peace process but then the irish love him to this day so i think we need to have more direct involvement and maybe that's the answer is having president obama take more of

a direct leadership role he always talks about lead from behind maybe this situation would be best off leading from the front trying to actually bring. well together to go yeah it's probably a good wake up call or a good reminder to him you know of course i think so many americans often focus on the promises that he's broken or you know the promises that have been realized here at home when it comes to domestic issues but this is also a president the promise to a lot internationally to the rest of the world that i think a lot of people hopeful and now i'm curious i just want to get your take on a new report actually that's been put out there jeremy scahill fresh from his trip to mogadishu put out a new report about the cia's secret sites that we have in somalia and he even said that he might be releasing some pictures which has a lot of people angry a lot of people are saying that this is a national security risk that he could even be reporting on this what do you think . well let me first off say you know jeremy and i are at opposite ends by actually like jeremy i think we've we've talked several times i think he's a good guy his heart's in the right place and frankly from what i've read today there are real issues relating to how we do intake of prisoners mcraven talked

about the problem recently fox news did a series of articles on it washington post we don't really have a clear format how we capture people and frankly i strongly disagree with the idea of detaining people indefinitely that's not what our principles as united states stand for you can't do that so you've got to have some path of judicial process and i've seen worse u.s. citizens have been rolled up in kind of not treated properly i talk about this in my book operation dark heart we were all of us citizen we treated them completely different than foreign nationals we treated them we separated them we gave him his own room and i think you need to consider even if you don't like it if a u.s. citizen is he was a citizen you know treat him like a u.s. citizen you've got to give him benefit of everything they would have if they you know if if they look like you or me and that's part of the problem i think a lot of these guys may look like arabs and i think that's part of the brutal truth or they just kind of gets thrown in with the other folks now there's is war you could have

a low level of of brutality but with that said once you identify what someone is you a citizen you've got to consider that and jeremy is doing i think a good job he's got to expose the process and the failings of the process for what they are i well i definitely agree with you there tony thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. for coming up on this wednesday evening we have a he said it i read it and respond to the comments i have left online about the fellow had newspapers folding and thinking he was or was cutting staff and many here not so now landing down in the key are feel this is a dangerous move for the president was a discuss a significant. in india. the movie joins the who runs. the gateway to the grand imperial truly to tell us the. socialist you

see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was a photo retreat. seven thirty am in moscow these are the headlines. on two sides of the bodies were everywhere in the corridors encounters where the lifers divers continue to whoring task of bringing the bodies of victims up to the surface after sunday's sinking of the volga river a pleasure cruise ship this has a former captain of the boat claims he raised the alarm years ago over the ship's condition he says the vessel was run on a shoestring budget and needed constant repairs throughout any boy's. rupert murdoch's bid for the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster crumbles under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain two u.s.

senators now calling for an inquiry following reports that a journalist from murdoch papers tried to bribe police for information following nine eleven. more trouble for the eurozone as the irish economy slides further e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned that it wouldn't have enough cash in its hero bailout fund to meet italian debt analysts say as europe's fourth largest economy italy is too big to fail but it has worsened debt problems and either portugal or ireland. next part two of the alone a show where we take a look at how p.r. firms are growing while news companies are shrinking and what that means for the future of journalism stay with us here on our team.

all right it's time for you said it i read it where i take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when you've got something to say i do listen now for us i'd like to respond to a comment about our mainstream miss segment yesterday i compared the media's obsessive focus on the weather to them completely ignoring the fact the u.s. still won't let a us representative visit bradley manning and job said on you tube the weather is very important to millions of people and certainly worthy of a segment here or there it seems like every single episode a lot of complains about bradley manning you might as well change your show to the bradley manning power hour now i understand the weather is an issue for people all over the country i also know that it's summer it's hot and it happens every year so there's no surprise there that's what i call a complaint but documenting the case.