think of the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. brock obama's magical mystery tour has come to an end as the obama caravan rolls into martha's vineyard for a presidential vacation but he can't shake the people's nerves curse we've got a police state up there with the latest on the right crackdowns in london and how our child welfare system and drug war conspire to tear families apart as you know the mainstream media works very hard to keep some presidential candidates in these secret our special guest tonight is two term former governor of new mexico and republican presidential candidate gary johnson only on adam vs the man. ladies and gentleman i have some sad news tonight obama is on vacation wait

maybe maybe that's good news but the bad news is that the throw america out of the bus tour is over that's right the sarkar see that's cars are flipped around and oh ok the lean mean job killing machine. my favorite was noble for noble you know has a meltdown without a teleprompter seems radioactive waste you know anyway the imperial omnibus has been parked back at inflation station which means no more nicknames for obama's death star of the american dream tour ok i just had to get one more in obama's just look the see first vacation martha's vineyard schedule for the rest of august no no that's that's wrong picture that's how bush saves vacations for political purposes yeah but that's more like it seems to support the youth vote you have to look like a. baller the l a times story on the subject today shows this out of touch some

people are it was titled obama's vacation despite controversy is good for his health ok ok so it was from their health blog but maybe we should be a bit more concerned about the health of the millions of american children are living in poverty thanks were gone is economic policies than whether or not obama is getting the up will not exercise in time with his family which is the official destination from the white house spokesman jay carney said last week i don't think americans out there would be grudge the notion that the president would spend some time with his family well let's see how do most americans compare these days well they're those working overtime to keep their jobs who get little time with their families and those who can't afford vacations but thanks want to play and have plenty of time to spend their families i would heartily begrudge the president but every time a president goes on vacation we have the same old tired to beat about whether republican presidents or democrat presidents are harder working so let's look at the numbers according to c.b.s. as mark knoller ok so here we have the various numbers of days that presidents have

spent on vacations as of this point in obama's presidency he's taken sixty one days so far reasonable if a bit luxurious fairly the hard charging bushwhacking bush took less right know george w. is downright french compared to obama surely we can count on the g.o.p.'s pinch hitter the gipper to bust brock right down ok so i must have forgot that the least reagan esque administration in recent american history was the reagan administration all right one more comparison. yeah well i guess if you're getting blowjobs under the desk in the oval office staycation babies aren't as important to your health so president obama is enjoying his time it now at this vineyard but plates. it's the return of the most thorough bull of all a thought those pesky midwesterners couldn't catch up to him but he was wrong see

when obama was touring the heartland that's political code for important swing states on the depression express he stopped to give a little helpful advice to a local farmer who was concerned about rules and regulations affecting his and his business obama told him quote contact the u.s. da talk to them directly find out what it is that you're concerned about my suspicion is a lot of times are going to be able to answer your questions and it will turn out that some of your fears are unfounded well and really have political did call the u.s.d.a. to get an answer to the questions and that's what happened well answer that he got a runner on the left of multiples they ended with an e-mail from the u.s.d.a. secretary vilsack continues to work closely with members of the cabinet to help them engage with the agricultural community to ensure that we are separating fact from fiction on regulations because the administration is committed to providing greater certainty for farmers and ranchers because the question that was posed did not fall within the u.s.d.a. view of pension it does not provide

a fair representation of us is robust efforts to get the right information to our producers throughout the country so if people hurst who are in vacation on martha's vineyard while so many americans are suffering aren't enough to make the two thousand and twelve election the g.o.p. has to lose perhaps being tone deaf will take obama out of the running but i suspect the real powers that be will be will really be behind obama in two thousand and twelve because. primarily he's been an ineffective manager of the exploitation machine that is the u.s. federal government and he can't even keep starbucks c.e.o. howard schultz from launching a moratorium on corporate campaign contributions well. we know who the government really works for and the boss isn't happy either. and for our first police state up it's night we go to england where they are still

dealing with the aftermath of last week's rights and the government is dealing with them very poorly the prosecutions in the wake of the rights that filled every jail cell in london have been unprecedented now the world is up in arms over the sentencing of two young obs as they call young troublemakers across the pond to four years each for the charge of inciting a riot on facebook i didn't know you could have a riot on facebook what would look like facebook users madly clicking from page to page unfriending people at a like in pages with reckless abandon not exactly a court of prosecutor martin it rob jordan blackshaw and perry sutcliffe independently and from the safety of their homes may have thought that it would be acceptable to set up a facebook page from inside others to take part in disorders and treasure they were wrong well i guess they were wrong but so was the justice system in which the non crime of what may have been just a joke on facebook is part of the same way that a violent offender might be by the way the facebook writes in question that the prosecutor claimed to have caused panic in the residence never materialized of

course we have seen crackdown doesn't address any of the issues of poverty and separation from society that many believe caused the rights but only make them worse and person i am predicting it will be seen more riots in england if this is the government's primary response. in the united states however our government is intercepting would be well balanced citizens at an earlier age instead of letting them grow up to be and still writing teenagers thanks to that drug war that the government is losing so gracefully penelope harris's apartment in the bronx was raided last year on the suspicion that drugs were being sold there a third of an ounce of marijuana was found street value around the house under bucks according the new york times miss harris was taken to jail claim that we wasn't hers and tested negative for drugs bunch of bother you that you could be taken away for being in the same do well in as a substance that the government doesn't like here is the measure of the heartlessness of our government when penelope was arrested her niece and son aged ten were home at the time her son spent more than a week in foster care her niece was in her custody as

a foster child and place another home for over a year before she would be returned to his hers in new york city cases of parents losing their children due to marijuana charges are on the rise right because crack use is down and government agencies still have budgets to justify the said thing is that because enough of the american people trust our government to regulate what we put in our bodies in the name of the drug war and to police bad parents we end up with a system that could not have been designed better to pull families apart. anyone paying attention to politics these days knows that the mainstream media or any media outlet for that matter can't be trusted to give you the whole story the answer to this is not more rules about fairness or equal time but consumers that care enough to change the channel away from the networks that don't give you the information you need to be a fully informed citizen my special guest tonight is none other than the former governor of new mexico gary johnson he served two terms there during which time he

vetoed more bills then all other governors in the country put together and of all former governors running for president he's the only one who is you favorably by those means to govern so tonight not only to present to you a candidate you should definitely know more about but also to present the platform within the republican field that may be viewed as the greatest threat to the establishment i give you former governor gary johnson adam great to be on thank you go governor thank you so much for being with us is there anything else before we get to tonight's. make up the bait on your behalf is there anything you'd like the american people to know about you i thought i had a great record as governor and my background is that i've been an entrepreneur my entire life i actually started a one man handyman business in albuquerque in one thousand nine hundred four and grew to employ over a thousand people twenty years later sold that business in ninety nine nobody lost their job they're doing better than ever and i'd also like people know that i'm an

athlete i've been an athlete my entire life and i just think that speaks to goal setting in. you know you're being modest or being modest would you specifically your athletic accomplishments well you know i've been a competitor i've think i've competed in seven hundred fifty events so i was trying to figure that out so i got to do iron man hawaii four times i have gotten to stand on top of the planet having summit of mount everest which i think is just indicative of being fit in and the whole notion of wellness i live by that notion well if only that was the requirement for being president only that we could put in the constitution of what is that if a candidate has not been to the top of mt everest and actually stood on top of the world they're not qualified what they're saying governor without further ado i'd like to tell our audience about how we're going to be doing this interview tonight because for tonight's one candidate debate very will be presented with a series of questions and candidate responses from the last official debate mixed

in with a series of questions that you probably won't ever hear asked at an official debate to maximize their it's time to make sure we cover all the ground we have to governor johnson has been asked to respond directly to these clips and we'll have a half up to one minute to answer each question governor are you ready ready all right the first question from bret baier what specific things would you do was president to increase growth calm the markets create jobs that could pass through a divided congress. well whether or not it passes through a divided congress or not i am promising to submit a balanced budget to congress i do believe that we need to have a balanced budget and i would throw out the existing tax system in this country and replace it with the fair tax and for those watching fair tax dodge or get on line take a look at it this is a proposal that's been around a long time but it would really reboot the american economy no more corporate tax

no more business the business tax no more income tax no more no more i.r.s. putting an end to all federal tax replacing it with one federal consumption tax as the name implies it's fair it would for those making more money they would pay more money and it would promote savings all right next we like to give you a chance to contrast your record as governor that out of mitt romney you know there's a critical issue which is how big is the government to be back in the days of john f. kennedy the federal government took up along with the state local governments twenty seven percent of the economy the big government consumes thirty seven percent of the economy we were inches away from no longer having a free economy. i am my classical liberal i believe that less government is better government i always maintained as governor of new mexico that i could have cut state government by a third and that no one would have noticed the difference well i wasn't

a dictator i was one of three branches of government and in that context i vetoed seven hundred fifty bills as you pointed out earlier i had thousands of line items i think and the whole notion of less government i think my actions speak louder than anyone's anyone else's words and certainly louder than the big government in massachusetts so you would say you could cut a third of the of the budget in mexico without anybody noticing at the federal level you would still have the same problem that the beneficiaries of that spending defense probably factors and well as are saying if people won't notice how are you how do you get past that well here in this case i'm advocating a forty three percent reduction in federal spending and so yeah we're going to notice that but i'm i'm under the belief that if we don't balance the federal budget we are on the verge of a financial collapse we're on the verge of a monetary collapse that will be the bond market that fails and very basically

it'll fail because you know what there's no repaying fourteen trillion dollars in debt given the fact that we're going to accrue another eleven trillion over the next eight naf years it's not possible so nobody's going to buy our debt we're going to end up monetizing the entire debt printing money to cover all of that debt and as a result of that we're going to have to we're going to have to voice wheelbarrows of money down to the grocery store to get a loaf of bread and out of it's going to be worse than that it's just going to be a terrible period of time if we don't balance the federal budget if we don't get our spending under control in my opinion we're going to find ourselves without a country outside and we'll be right back with former governor in mexico gary johnson and his answers to our questions on foreign policy states' rights and the drug war you're watching adam vs the man speaking. r t is the state run in an english speaking russian channel it's kind of like.

russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. in so that only the military mechanisms people would come to bring justice or accountability. i have a right to know what the government's doing want to know what i pay taxes. with kid to rise obama as a charismatic. of american exceptionalism. welcome

back to adam vs the man i'm joined by gary johnson and very honored to have the opportunity now to ask another question you might not hear any one of the official republican presidential debates governor to what extent do you think the federal reserve is responsible for our current economic crisis. well certainly they're playing a role in it but ending the federal reserve is not going to be the end all the end goal is to quit printing money and that's really that's really what we need to do is quit printing money so i would not have raised the debt ceiling increase if we did away with the federal reserve the treasury could still print money that's still a possibility but going back specifically into where how has the fed been responsible for getting us to this point so far well it's really it's been a congress that has continued to spit congress and the president continues to spend more money than what we take in and the federal reserve is simply accommodating those policies they're accommodating easy money so. we can borrow

money had zero interest and there's just a huge expansion of the money supply that ultimately in my opinion results in gigantic inflation moving on to foreign policy and military policy of things we have a next question from the last debate another five u.s. soldiers were killed today in afghanistan after the single biggest loss that helicopter crash over the weekend last weekend almost ten years after nine eleven after the killing of osama bin laden with casualties mounting their costs adding up many people calling the government there corrupt is it still worth it. you know we should get out of afghanistan tomorrow when we went into afghanistan additionally i thought that was totally warranted we were attacked we attacked back and after being in afghanistan for six months i think we had affectively wiped out

al qaeda that was ten years ago so not only afghanistan but iraq we're building roads schools bridges highways and hospitals in iraq and afghanistan and we're borrowing forty three cents out of every dollar to do that and worse yet men and service women are losing their lives let's get out of iraq and afghanistan and libya to morrow ok so the next hot button issue on foreign policy is iran of course it was a major dust up between santorum and paul in the last debate over this but i want to get your response in contrast to what bachmann i've examination i sit on the house select committee on intelligence i can't reveal classified information but i can say this is present united states i will do everything to make sure that iran does not become a nuclear power. i would i would agree with the notion that we should remain vigilant to any threat against our national security i don't see it existing though

in iran and one of the unintended consequence of our military actions are as we take out saddam hussein iraq and that's what iran is concerned about is iraq so we take out saddam hussein we take out iraq and now they're raising their head they are not a military threat in my opinion but we should be vigilant to the fact that at some point it might be but it's not the case now if iran announced that they had a nuclear weapon would the response of the johnson administration well first of all there are nuclear nuclear weapons. held by china pakistan india. nuclear weapons exist everywhere so that is not the end all the end all is is there a military threats against the united states and i don't want to say for a second that i wouldn't be vigilant to what might in fact be a military threat i just see it coming from iran and you're asking if they had

a military weapon. that would that would be something that we would we would see unfold in i think we are active participants in not having that take place and i just don't see it taking place to tell you the truth ok now for a military policy question for you as commander in chief that it seems the establishment is afraid to face up to the latest report from the military from the pentagon itself military and active duty activity and veteran suicides are back at an all time high despite the military's best efforts to address this problem that has been a disturbing trend throughout the global war on terror how would you address the issue of suicides among military and veterans as commander in chief well i think getting out of iraq and afghanistan and libya is a great start to see that we really risk. that there are military and we're only going to use our military in in cases where we are threatened and that hasn't been

the case so to me that puts perhaps some purpose behind serving that for somebody that commits suicide i would think but that would have to be part of the equation it and i am i really am i really making a difference in the world and and i'm not and so that road gets taken and that's that's that's really remarkable to have a presidential candidate that's willing to have that kind of empathy with those who would be commanding and it's and as a veteran i want to say i really appreciate that answer well and i appreciate your having been a veteran and i appreciate your standing having stood up against our involvement in iraq i well we have some some more excited papa said moving on i want to ask you present a question rather is about state's rights. do you think the government at any level has the right to make someone buy a good or service just because they are a u.s. resident now hold on or in the debate here there was some wiggling out of having to

answer this question because all that's about health care but philosophically does the government have that right you know. so what answer is simple and have a right they've any follow up to that obamacare romney care just just the obvious follow up if the government's going to mandate what kind of health insurance we buy why tomorrow are they not going to tell us what kind of automobiles and car or house to live in in or what we can eat and what we can drink can actually we're doing that right now so this is just an extension of what government has become and it's what government shouldn't be the government should have power you and i as individuals to make choices that i would argue only you and i have the ability to make i know senator rick santorum former senator rick santorum and congressman are also got into it on states' rights only gets the reaction to what santorum had to say we have ron paul saying oh what the states want to do whatever the states want to attend to them it's fine so if the states want to pass polygamy that's from the

state's one and post arrows ation that's right no our country is based upon moral laws ladies and gentlemen there are things the states can't do abraham lincoln said the states do not have the right to do wrong. well so on on so rick santorum i think is representative of the status quo and that is that i am a senator i'm in washington and i know what education to be in new mexico well i don't think he does i think i understand what health care should be in new mexico i don't think he knows that so really we're going to draw lines we're going to i think you either believe in states' rights or you don't and i believe in states' rights fifty laboratories of best practice fifty laboratories of. of let's do things better now abolishing the federal department of education in my opinion would be the best thing the federal government could do when it comes to

education giving it over to fifty laboratories of best practice which in my opinion since we're so competitive would actually produce better education we emulate the success we would do everything we could to avoid the failure and there would be failure but as opposed to washington top down nose first that's why we're paying for a pets why we're borrowing forty three cents out of every dollar that we're spending ok so as president what would you do to better empower states to assert those rights against the federal government well if it goes beyond being a spokes person it goes to vetoing legislation that infringes on the states and their lives it alone is bad for them that the given the situation today what would the priority for repealing legislation for a change in current policy not just stopping it from getting worse well you can't promise that adam but that's that's what you would work toward is to repeal those kinds of that kind of legislation that would be really pine the sky that would be

electing republicans and a republican president but you know republicans passed a law banning poker players from playing poker on line well because of why why was that will the. republicans are going to stand in and morally say that you shouldn't be allowed to play poker even though that's your passion and it turns out that you can play poker online for pennies on the evening as opposed to going into a casino where i think that number would be hundreds of dollars and doesn't that legislation somehow have a basis in existing casinos as opposed to you and i being empowered to be on line so you know repealing legislation republicans democrats both they seem to share in this notion of we're going to control your life because we know how to live our lives better than you do well i reject that notion and finally one last question from the last debate. congressman paul says terrorism suspects suspects have

committed a crime and are do or should be given due process in civilian courts could you please tell congressman paul why he's wrong. first of all. the enemy combatants that are that are detained need to be charged period we should not be holding enemy combatants that are not charged and torture should not be something that we're that we that we allow in any in any form whatsoever the notion that we would try a non us citizen with a military tribunal i think that that might make a lot of sense that we subject our own military to military tribunals there's a real case to be made that this is a fair process and that since they're not u.s. citizens that we could use military tribunals to do that so i don't know is i disagree so much as the disagreement would be is allowing

a non us citizen. due process for a u.s. citizen that would simply be the difference and it may not be all that workable as compared to a military tribunal that many many would argue is actually pretty fair a lot of people have were supporters of complaint even that your position on the drug war because it was such an important issue for you as governor of new mexico has become now a central issue or even an issue that your campaign has been the right of for within the republican primary why do you think that the drug and if it ending the drug wars as your stances has become such a hallmark if you for your campaign well it's because nobody talks about no one i'm the only one that has talked about it i continue to be the one that talks about it so it gains a lot of attention and by the way when people talk about the drug war the trouble we're does really well and are the light of day people people are much more

receptive to legalizing marijuana if they'll just talk about it a little bit so i don't view this as a negative but it is a real attention getter and you can't shy away from something that. garners this much attention and i just think it's indicative of all the issues and that is that look there's no politics here this is an issues first this is politics last let's do what's right and if my stance on the drug war is an indication of what i would do as president yes that's exactly what i would do as president i would take on he shoes regardless of political consequence. as an example the war on drugs and legalizing marijuana so why do you think that this message now are coming to the end of our show and i am very glad you've been able to join us and it's been it's been a it's been an honor to have you here and to is thank you it's been for viewers i had a friend for congress in my district and i got to vote for it. very much appreciate

it sir but i want to ask so we just have a minute left why is this message why is this platform such a threat from your resume you have the most credibility of any republican in the field why is this the case why is the gays. good you know i'll pound the fist i just have to believe that the system will ultimately recognize this for what it is and it will have plenty of light shined on it and when that happens you know what it's a good thing it will get people talking in the right way regarding all the issues so that's that's my belief in this whole process says a lot of the lesser thought were governor gary johnson a new mexico candidate for the republican nomination for president of the united states of america thank you very much great to be with you that's our show for tonight thanks for food and adam versus the man please take out adverse of the man dot com for a vote on guess and topics and find me on facebook and twitter as always you can get me at adam.