inside only military mechanisms to do the work up to bring justice or accountability. i help 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 for like sleep you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't charge welcome to the big picture.

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art aside for show and tell on tonight's program the last time we told you that a second round of a global financial crisis seems like it might be on the horizon we wanted to know if you thought the two thousand and eleven is going to be the sequel to what we saw in two thousand and eight for the producer for truth in a sense you find out what you have to say.

wait a minute don't you see this movie back in two thousand and eight and looks like we're stuck in the sequel the only difference is the banks have been bailed out and the streets have been newly paved using stimulus money is a part is the millions of underpaid actors who make up the struggling losses are all about real americans so what do you think is twenty eleven a sequel to the financial crisis of two thousand and eight well unfortunately most of you think so rena said i'll be surprised if twenty eleven isn't a sequel for two thousand and eight and like movie sequels they tend to be worse than the first ones tommy said he imagines the next crisis will be worse than two thousand and eight while many of you agreed with tommy that the worst is yet to come some believe that we are still stuck in the same old two thousand a disaster flack for miles one sister note the recession and never. ended bailouts

only served to paper over the cracks joe felt the same way he said i don't think the price is from two thousand and eight is over one thing washington needs to learn from hollywood is that sequels they can be very risky and most of the time they lose money so let this director takes a new approach and for those out that old script looks like all of us will look back on the economy of twenty eleven like a bad scene out of the movie groundhog day. now earlier we spoke about the continued fighting in libya and the battle over tripoli so we want to know what you think will the u.s. put boots on the ground in libya that's our next question you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and you know the response just might make. the sky. light will come down. so fast you can be seeing. today we have a glimmer of hope as one comes in to police in cleveland that we have brought in countless incidents across the country where people have been with police in action

and then been arrested or harassed for it cleveland police have decided to order their cobs to leave a citizen videographers alone. we learned cleveland police just got new orders if they see you videotaping cops in action call should leave you alone you have to wait if you cheat you can look at the actions the police officers the. who they have a right we're going to bring so surprised i have gotten so used to people being arrested and harassed for pushing the record the record button when police are in action and it looks like we got it right after seeing the media's attention on the actions of local law enforcement cleveland said go ahead and record at least they understand the importance of keeping their officers in check at all times after all if we're giving about already allowing them to carry a firearm should we know that they're doing the right thing but lest you think the war on cameras is anywhere near over here's the latest example of cops aggressively stopping anybody from filming that and seaside heights

a man named chris and his brother walking down the street and police caught the two men taping that and the comps were all that happy about it. the cheaper the sooner i didn't here's your. first photo so don't go grab some place yourself or for. some one of the forty believe you know you know a lot of you see. i want to plug this thing. now it's a little time to see what actually happened when the man rode into cop block he explained that he and his brother were walking by a cop car and as they started to walk away the cop got out of the car and approached him and that's when he pushed record he goes on to explain the cops quickly took my phone and violated my rights my brother were separated he was handcuffed peacefully a short while later eventually he was thrown to the ground and beat after while they gave me a ticket for a public nuisance and my brother was arrested for aggravated assault was taken away and subsequently in jail sadly in the feeling police is only technically illegal in

three states maryland illinois and massachusetts a lot of people are going to have to deal with the harassment from. police officers for doing so so the fact of the cleveland police department at least one understands the importance of average americans being able to keep law enforcement track i would say unfortunately this one tiny example is a glimmer of hope. all right so new polls coming out almost on a daily basis showing that approval for washington and the president are not so good the recent c.b.s. new york times poll that eighty two percent of americans disapprove of the way congress is doing its job at the highest disapproval rating since polling began in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven that leaves just fourteen percent who actually approve of congress' performance and a grandee gallup poll shows president obama's approval rating at its lowest point just thirty eight percent like i said not a good sign for them or for us so one reaction of course is to get angry another

could be to turn that anger into comedy take me to influence month in his recent video over the debt ceiling debate. the student government the united states government know what point six trillion dollars be no more critical it will be cut off a long time before it all of us feel to do is perilous. so you do some we voted for your because we were both gay rights marijuana legalized all of these other things a little concerned about how can we get rolled more money for schools to pass this can't even balance a checkbook a checkbook b. this is something every american has to go through every week we've got to figure out what we're going to pay what we've got to put off a little bit. our well we love that video so much that we does that here some more so joining me is comedian felonious monk thanks so much for joining us. and i think that work that we can shorten it a little bit for starters tell me about yourself you used to be a finance director making six figures and now you're a comedian yet it doesn't seem like

a normal path that my mother is still upset about it. actually cause she says i want to join the circus i think i'm more upset about the new mother as i probably would be if i had to. go what would happen. you know. what we've been called it we're saying it's not it's recession or depression whatever happened there financially for the country it was one of the first things one of the worst things and as a finance director my job was to get loans for people to buy cars well the banks stopped lending money so there was you know not as much need for me so i lost two guys in my department my money went from six figures to very very low five figures and you know we had to try something different i've always loved comedy i've always thought that if you had an absurd way of looking at the world and you could present it the people who make them laugh you can make them feel better about something that's not so good so what is happening is of course that everything we were saying the fact that everyone is expected to balance their checkbook we have to do that all the time and congress some reason doesn't i would really call that absurd i would just call that logic unfortunately but tell me about that right i mean so

you're saying that the recession is part of the reason you had to go into comedy and leave your job or you were angry at wall story or you know this seems to be more. are directed towards congress towards the president particular here's here's the thing the people the people elected who we have in office and it was good to see those numbers that we just saw fourteen percent you know are still saying you know when there's eighty two percent saying no no no you got the same thing with barack obama was it thirty eight and fifty four thirty eight say ok he's ok and fifty four say no and what we're seeing is you know you have the republicans going to see everyone stick over to obama only thirty eight percent approve and then you've got the rest of the country when you have we've got a republican led congress and you're only at fourteen percent so who's losing everyone's losing so whether it's wall street or our government we elect our government officials we don't elect wall street so i can't really you know i'm almost talking to appear want to talk to wall street i have to talk to the president i have to talk to the government say hey we elected you you said these are things you could do obama in particular people said it's an obama no what i'm

saying is you campaigned on unity i'm going to bring the parties together no more no more partisanship and i'm going to be able to get things done smoothly and then we saw what happened with the health care bill and we saw what happened with pretty much everything he's done it's been contentious so you didn't do that part i'm not upset with your policies as much as i'm upset with that was the one promise i thought you were going to be able to handle and that's to get people to agree and you went from being in the center on your campaign to be in four left once you got in office and that's what happened oh i totally disagree with you there that family being you've got even more towards that or another thing that i document all the time here on this program obviously you're getting a lot of attention right this video has become a sensation i got the attention of glenn beck to tell me about that i mean what are your thoughts on glenn beck and he was loving this but you think he's just loving it because you're angry at obama or addressing obama or he actually likely have to say oh of course i think what happened if i did two minutes and thirty seconds of actual talk time and twenty seconds of it so tom it was

a president obama this is for you it was twenty seconds out it's a minutes and thirty seconds and it was renamed epic anti obama. and and i'm going that was epic and. that really wasn't it you know i understand what we're doing here everything was done in sound bites the last five presidents in my dinner in my lifetime have been elected from soundbites they've been elected on celebrity they've been elected on personality and there's probably a good thirty five to forty percent of the people who vote who know what the issues or and really know what your voting record is and where you stand the other sixty percent vote for the guy they like and so that's what got him back that he says hey i can i can slant this this way i've got a guy who's he's a black guy he's got a beard he looks angry he looks good and he's saying bad things about obama so let's call it that when they use the oh yes i will call it that i mean you know but at the same time. i used. the situation we were in to make a funny video it went viral to use me and use that to do what you wanted to do

hopefully a more typical enough that it was say it was an advance i wanna read it was a real government get your stuff together but if you want to phrase it that way i can't stop you so you make a lot of great points there like i said again very logical points and you know we've had other guests on the show too because all the time i first thing you see is just pundit in searing washington that is train t.v. people you know we've got other people who have posted videos on you tube this average angry americans want to get their voice out i think that's a really good way to get that message across now ok so you said that glenn beck to my to use the right because you're black and you said a few negative things about obama but tell me and we try to do this the other day on the show to obviously you're not to be able to speak for the entire black community in america but we just went through all of these poll numbers and i also looked at the gallup poll from today for black americans eighty eight percent still approve of the job about this feeling. interesting conversation two for the most part are a lot of black people are very conservative especially with their religious practices very conservative fiscally but they vote democrat and the republican party

basically says we're concerned with the politically conservative party religious right we don't understand it i can explain that i can only say it is this one thing that you don't speak out against family and the black community still sees obama's family and if you criticize him that somehow was selling out but they'll criticize him behind closed doors and here's the issue i have with that i can't be afraid to say what i want to say publicly for fear that some black guy is going to look at me and say you're a sellout i'd rather sell someone out because they don't like me more than sell myself out that's that's a horrible feeling to look at the mirror every day and say when someone asked me a question i'm going to answer that would be expect you to say it was not to offend the black people as opposed to i'm going to tell you the truth because reliance each other that's not a dialogue i completely agree i can't agree more well i think it's good everything you have to say to you even though we may disagree on a few policy things here but i want you to take out your video of the video very funny thanks so much for coming out here. now sort of comes and i state lawmaker unfairly west thinks that young people aren't worthy of earning the minimum wage so

he's going they are told time warner also had d.c. on the east coast a little shaking this afternoon thanks to an earthquake to stick around for a much needed happy hour. you know sometimes just a story and it seems so foolishly you think you understand it and then something else hears you some of the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture of. the world we are the world. and yet though. ft. five.

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it's time for tonight's bull's-eye award and said i to go to new hampshire state representative carolyn choir see carroll was elected to the new hampshire house of representatives in two thousand and eight as a republican and apparently carol is no fan of young workers in her state she believes in the current seven dollars and twenty five cents that is going away to new hampshire is too high for that this year lawmakers in new hampshire passed a bill that tied the state's minimum wage to the federal minimum wage meaning of their state better wage could not be higher than the federal law so the governor vetoed the bill but state lawmakers overrode that but carol still isn't satisfied she's still thing. that seven twenty five is too much for young workers and a statement to reporters carol said that she would sponsor a bill that would repeal all minimum wage laws in the state and his not employers

pay workers what they're worth she believes that the seven twenty five minimum is overly generous to young people listen to her quote she said it's very discriminatory particularly for the young people they're not worth the minimum what how do you just build sorry for the teenagers out there that are trying to support their families college students trying to put themselves through school in new hampshire and we're hearing in college students because according to carroll statement there is no age limit here it's just about young people apparently she gets to pick and choose when you're no longer considered young so carol thinks that the young folks are only worth about five bucks an hour despite the fact that they do the same work as many of their older counterparts and she doesn't want the young people or states to succeed but let's do some fun. too if somebody or state is making seven twenty five an hour and they work forty hours a week that's about two hundred ninety dollars a week take home pay before taxes so if you multiply that times fifty two weeks in a year for a grand total that makes just over fifteen thousand dollars

a year if we take carol's proposal to cut the minimum wage down to five dollars workers who put in forty hours a week with make two hundred dollars a week so when you multiply that size fifty two weeks a year you get a new salary wow just over ten thousand dollars a year maybe a pair of wires to take your own advice when it comes to introducing a new bill next time. i'm on the chicken apartment in st and i hope the sheer to kill bill that would require registration. contractors and building so forth which i've been fighting for several years. at the moment my main goal is kill the number of steep hills. that was carol mcguire talking about her theory on introducing bills maybe she was unaware what happens when young people feel left out of the decision making process i think we have a prime example they decided a few weeks ago cross the pond in london and the u.k.

youth are unemployed pair paid very poorly they took to the streets and huge uprising the london riots are a prime example of what people will do when they're pushed they're scared with their disenchanted and don't feel like they're part of the system at all so carol dwyer go ahead cut people's basic pay even more people are hurting but you're fine to give the corporations give them more power to screw over all the workers but we have the power thankfully to give you our tool towards tonight so we will. it's time for happy hour this evening and joining me tonight i have our team producer jenny churchill and andrew blake our web writer thanks for joining me guys we're answering your debut on happy hour party here and care happy because i are very sorry to be here because you know the rest of washington d.c. is right now everything lead this city because we experience the earthquake and

everybody freaked out at first it was five point eight so then the u.s.g.s. bumped it up to five point nine and last i heard it think they bumped it back down to a five point eight but the news obviously was it was all over this. we felt it for about twenty five thirty seconds you know that the team were shaking beneath. everyone the alarm going off and everyone went down the stairs and i was being. w.r.c. and they have pictures apparently of some sandstone and some granite coming from the spires of the cathedral. i mean this is a little funny and jenny you know because you are sitting right next to me there are a number of us who work in this office are from california and so we were kind of making fun of the rebels that the words that they were freaking out or office building made us evacuate i was like come on guys you know it's just an earthquake i have no work to do i have a pre-paid to interview here like i got to go back to work and just stand outside of the story wandering around but for those of you who maybe i don't know how the

culture is grateful for joining is it really scary i put in your competitors one other time but i was asleep and i thought that someone had really just broken into my apartment and was shaking my bad side enough that really counts but you know i mean you were definitely cool collected and camo saying oh my god. thank you no no no you keep out of my way i basically do and i think you were like no it's mine your way but i think my favorite part was when meghan kelly said that the washington monument was tipping i think that was definitely the hot news along with allan for a while that maybe the washington monument just had a little a little tilt so that we could have had our own leaning tower of washington you know they see earthquakes i lived in l.a. for a little bit there's nowhere where you see the come trails today and it was always been a lot in. the city to shots and i was very. well actually. i don't know i mean that was my i obviously that's how it happened but that was my first ok all right maybe not right that one we just met that was my first thought

that i was actually really really i mean it took four shots to get to putting out albums so you never know who the funny thing is i realized how different it is to be exhibit life else earthquakes are for i just immediate was like oh it's an earthquake whereas other people being here from d.c. they're like we thought it was a blog but then we realized that there wasn't a sound well i also thought that equipment was. good security you know. you know weird stuff goes on here at r.g.s. studios sometimes let's look at a few tweets compiled from the funniest tweet because everybody fancy themselves a comedian after this over there are favorites where i think chris christie just jumped into the race not to panic anyone in new york city risk reaming jump just drove by the limo it was missing a door but a reference to twenty twelve there and i felt the earthquake last week from a brooklyn hipster that could have easily said california hipster because i felt like everyone from california was being so smug today like. it was

a hard way to get over those west those cattle we get so much from times to let's move on to stuff that we can actually laugh about. what we did laugh about it's our shot but. this new children's book that's coming out of it causing quite a storm. on the cover of the new book maggie goes on a diet maggie is seen dreaming of a sinner so the fourteen year old character is bullied relentlessly but after losing a lot of weight by eating healthier foods like fruits and exercising more and instantly makes new friends and even transforms into a star soccer player. what do you say andrew is that sending the wrong message to girl no no good for maggie because i mean i grew up in buffalo and i used to eat a chicken wing or twenty with you know most meals and i could use a book like that when i was just me fourteen the books on some. yeah i mean i to

think not i think this book is totally wrong though because my my if you haven't heard it because i know you're going to let me finish from my experience the fact kid is always funny and has the most friends no i don't know they're bad kids growing up i can vouch that i had on who you know i know i have friends that are on camera man thing and funny and if you live like a ninety's the comedy drama the film. ok that's right i came here to d.c. every day for the show everyone spends their time living in kentucky. and i know i am i do think that people are freaking out a little bit ok if there's a pull to the comes out with a message like if you feel like you're being bullied you think it's because your way you can exercise and you can eat healthy. healthier obvious is going to solve all of your problems but it'll make you feel more comfortable about your body image you know we've had discussions too about how in the us it's like this thing that people freak out about it's very taboo for people to talk to their kids about being overweight and in other countries it's not so much that they're just like you're

fat we're just what i'm always look for and. i don't want to say that whatever but that's all right in that story. well take a look what a david letterman he made fun a lot of and then there were. songs of jihadist websites people wanted him killed there is tongue cut out and he actually joked about it last night on his show. i'm so sorry i'm a little late coming out backstage i was talking to the guy from c.b.s. we were going through the c.b.s. the life insurance policy. to see if i was covered for jihad a guy a radical extremist threatened to cut my talk. i wish i had a nickel. ok i kind of like that he has a sense of humor about this and to laugh about it rather than hiring like a twenty person security detail and freaking out it's only going to further my theory that david letterman is the most bad ass now on television he if you watch

the whole model he manages to call out and jay leno in the same monologue those are the two greatest evils in america right now so i mean if he doesn't look scared he just does of course is the dear boy he's like totally used to people hating him i mean honestly like you think that jihadists are the only ones that want to even letterman nine and two thousand and eight somebody sent him an envelope full of anthrax people like him he's used to it it's nothing no never going to it was a pretty women out there i think they don't like him either i mean we are not are you going to wrap it up thanks so much for joining me tonight and thank you for tuning into makes me think back tomorrow attorney and former cia officer jack rice is the reality show discuss the latest developments in libya now in the meantime don't think it's within the span of a lot of snow on facebook and of follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show any other nights you can always talk about it. plus we're on the shelf after next is adam versus the way.

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