hello i'm john hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture you know there's a problem in our country when c.e.o.'s are paid more than uncle sam i'll tell you which top corporate fat cats pocketed profits at the expense of you and me and the president's highly anticipated jobs plan for america just got derailed by speaker of the house john boehner so why are republicans manufacturing a conflict so it's the president's jobs plan will discuss that tonight's liberal debate.

you need to know this what do you know electric e bay coca-cola verizon boeing credential and apple one all have in common well they all pay their c.e.o.'s more than they paid in u.s. taxes last year according to a new report by the institute for policy studies twenty five of the biggest multi-billion dollar corporations cut huge checks to their c.e.o.'s dodgy knuckle sam and not paying their fair share in federal taxes last year for example g.e. pay their c.e.o. jeffrey immelt but in tory's job outsourcers who also as president obama's job creation council fifteen million dollars and didn't pay one dime in taxes in fact they got a three billion dollar rebate. courtesy of you and me the taxpayer the c.e.o.

of e bay john donoghue got a fat twelve million dollar paycheck last year his corporation paid no taxes and like g.e. got a one hundred thirty one million dollars tax rebate risin c.e.o. i haven't signed and bird made eighteen million dollars and then got a seven hundred five million dollars tax rebate from the government and the list goes on and on thanks to armies of corporate lobbyists who belong amass of holes in the corporate tax code and unpatriotic c.e.o.'s who dragged their corporate treasure chests overseas and stashed away profits in secret bank accounts in places like the isle of wight and the cayman islands each and every year more and more corporations get by without paying any taxes at all and when corporations like these don't pay their taxes guess who gets stuck with the bill for the schools and courts and streets they use you and me as the california purge discovered it out of

states loses approximately one hundred billion dollars in tax revenues every year due to corporations and individuals sending their money into offshore tax havens in two thousand and ten making up for this in the lost revenue cost the average us tax filer that's you and me four hundred thirty four dollars that's enough money to feed a family of four for three weeks again that's you and me pain more money so the multibillion dollar transnational corporations don't have to but this isn't just about corporate tax dodgers it's about corporate freeloaders and it's high time too in the corporate welfare as we know it. here's how it works here's the you know the basic summary of how the whole thing works here's our democracy ville usa you know our are our little virtual city and we have you know the people who live in the

residences over here. and here's main street a little car going down and we have the power plant and we have the. college or school city hall go to hospital because the fire department the police department and then we get the corporations the big companies the factories the banks toure's what lot and somebody has got to pay for all of this stuff in the middle and for this street that the car goes down. and so you know we all chip in a little bit you know the residential we pay our taxes right some property taxes income taxes we need a little money the sin taxes and it used to be in fact during the eisenhower administration that there was just about an equal balance that the corporations down here paid about forty one percent of the total tax load and the residences over here paid about forty one percent of the total tax load and the

balance the remaining twenty percent was made up by taxes on goods being imported into the united states now we did away with that so that the taxes coming in things coming to the united states all paid taxes so that these guys can make a whole lot more money importing stuff and shutting down the factories you know this we don't have any factories here anymore because we don't make anything anymore so anyway so it used to be that the corporations pay their fair share of the taxes to people as they actually use the police department i mean they they need defense right and if somebody violates. the son the police if they use the fire department to protect their buildings they use the hospital to you know to it's part of the commons of somebody gets sick they use the city hall extensively corporations require government in order to enforce contracts if you can't force a contract you can't do business this is

a major major resource. and this you know used to be paid for by the corporations and here we have the that is the chance of higher living learning or rather the corporations are having to pay for this of course or you or you would think because all of their employees have public educations they learn how to read and write on our tax dollars and then of course we have the utilities the power things like that all of this and the infrastructure septic water all of this stuff and the roads all of this used to pay be paid for by both corporations and by we the people but now the corporations have figured out a way to take this money that they used to pay in taxes and shovel it all up and pass it over to the cayman islands or bermuda or some other place where it's still kind of there. and you know if they need

to they'll kick a little bit of it back to city hall to the politicians so that those politicians can get reelected so that they can make sure that even more money is coming from os you and me and going to the taxes or in some cases going to the cayman islands via these big corporations and that's basically the scam that's how it's worked this forty percent that these guys used to pay it's now eleven percent of forty percent that we used to pay is now well over fifty or sixty percent. i mean we've got for example the two thousand and nine corporate income taxes paid as a percentage of g.d.p. we find that the united states is actually right down to the bottom we have a thirty five percent tax rate but the fact of the matter is nobody pays it and when we look at as a percentage of g.d.p. of a little less than three percent united states we're only beat by iceland i mean all

the way up here israel belgium canada ireland denmark japan hungary way their corporations pay way more than ours do now why would that be because their corporations don't have the ability to go to city hall or the state capital or whatever and say you know we're going to take a little bit of this money from the cayman islands and we're to help get you guys elected so that you'll be sure that this money goes back to us the corporations and then we can put in the cayman islands again and that's how it works and that's what we've got to change. is that if our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question will obama get funding for ability goods and gas tax to fund highway construction repair and create one million jobs your choices are yes the republicans of course wouldn't care repairs to our infrastructure and our jobs or

no the republicans want the economy to crash so it's a lesson obama's chances for reelection log on to let us know what you think it would pull be open. crazy alert bill o'reilly is busted yesterday the good web site gawker broke the news of so-called news talking head bill o'reilly allegedly tried to pay off the nassau county police department with a charitable contribution and exchange for investigation into whether or not his wife was having an affair with one of the departments police officers as the rocker article reads last summer bill o'reilly aired new fox news anchor bill o'reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man not just any other man but a police detective in a long island community they call home so riley did what any concerned husband

would do he pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's wife of course this isn't anything new for a rally it's not the first time he's called on the police for a personal favor back in two thousand and six o'reilly told a caller to his radio show that thought security is ready at his back and call a phone and set it to investigate people who mention a certain name he doesn't like on his radio show that being mr oberman. i can listen to you during the day i think keith olbermann show that there you go mike is . he's a guy and guy you know we have is we have your phone numbers by the way so if you're listening mike we have your phone number and we're going to turn it over to fox security and you'll get a little visit maybe mike is from the mothership now maybe mike's going to get in trouble because we're not going to play around when you call a sleaze general just so you know we do have your phone number and if you see anything untoward obscene or anything like that fox security then will contact you

local authorities and you will be held accountable. there so just the police are at bill o'reilly's back in call except when he's trying to get his producer into the shower naked so he can wash away the roof. after the break my two guests political experts daniel helfer brian darling join me for a loan liberal rumble. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions. made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global mission who would see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

night when i'm alone liberal and go opinions to expert political commentators to debate the week's a biggest stories on the panel tonight daniel helper the deputy online editor the weekly standard and broiling brian darling columnist of human events distributor and contributor to red state dot com and the governor and director of government

studies at the heritage foundation gentlemen welcome. just to start out the joint session of congress was supposed to be held and was a wednesday of next wednesday of next week and the first day the congress is going to be back the president has been talking for some time he is going to lay out his jobs program you apparently clear this with. john boehner john boehner says no he didn't say yes he simply was informed three different quarters now have said that he has confirmed that he further said this is bipartisan we basically bottom line boehner said we're not going to do this it's the night of the republican debate and besides that even if it wasn't we want you to do it thursday instead because that's the night a book football season and nobody will watch the president. the house he enters a letter to the to the to the president says the house will not be in session until wednesday september seventh with votes at six thirty this evening like they just can't put off these votes to hear from the president the united states this is the

first time in the history of the republic since george washington that a president has asked to address a joint speech or a joint group of congress and that one party exclusively has said no we're not going to do it sorry you got to do it the next day compete with people like football it's not a matter of putting off the votes if it's a matter of the votes are necessary in order to hold a joint session of congress this is a last minute fifteen minutes earlier this is a last but people are finding i mean it's logistically there is that there is something more problematic than just going the way i think you're describing the way that the president steimle to talk in a week from now i think can change reservation i think you're missing the larger point the larger point is that all of a sudden the president wants to address and it's the press conference he's been talking about september sixth for three weeks so they just announced that they believe there's nothing yesterday first one second what he said two and a half years to introduce them to jobs you know he hasn't done it in or if you're in on it obviously for the first time in the history of the one hundred eighty

you've got you've got john you've got a lot head of the republican party of the republican house saying sorry mr obama you are not going to have what you got it's not what happened they didn't ask them before they didn't ask them before they live with want to see anything or at the end he did not appear at rescheduling at the scheduling you did that if you're not able here to. question the pride the reels the seals this eric cantor put in is his night in the back of john boehner again because both bain are and the white house were clear that they had a deal and then all of a sudden a deal well it's a big ado about nothing because this speech is going to happen they're going to work out some sort of a deal but the bigger question is the president said in his letter that he's going to have a bipartisan solution to our job problem i'm wondering what republicans he consulted with the coming together with this bipartisan solution that he's going to be presenting to congress we all know as well i never once it but we all know this is nothing more than just a campaign speech the president has zero chance of passing a stimulus plan in this congress because the republicans are going to start

everything of course because they don't work not political they should obstruct it because his plans don't work they didn't work last time they're not going to work this time so john boehner just made it his own he said no it's all political because obama went to the press beforehand to make a political point to put john boehner get in october that he would use his team went through the press not himself personally and the point is they wanted to make they wanted to make the republicans look bad on the hill when they say they were some moderately successful you simply have been republicans look bad on the hill by had a joint there that on thursday is that i would say good by making them either agreeing to the date that they choose or making the republicans rebuffed them in public this is this is this is all about republicans saying he's sorry if you want to give a speech it's going to be on the night of the opening night of the point is if there's an enormous who hubris in the fact that the president is speaking before a joint session or a rarely used platform to express of a strictly related closed no it's rare one for a national crisis bush you think got a shot at over eight percent is not

a crisis i don't see it's not a crisis what do you think it is out of what for ordinary circumstances you're to do anything because you should explicitly says it has congress because you have a president you have all of us together for extraditing him separate seventy does not exist or a very daniel bryan i think it's extraordinary but i don't think it matters what that he comes to speak to congress i don't know why it's so fixed. david on wednesday you could do it thursday friday or the week after it just seems like he's going to come to congress to make his political statement and then we'll be done with it ok well we'll leave it at that i say it's the that the republicans want to make sure that he's competing with football eat you do it the first day of congress because if you're going to introduce legislation you're going to try to set the congressional agenda you do it the first day of congress and that's wednesday night as the first edition of q. and a half years ago when he came into office he would have years ago he decided to pass a health care bill instead and did a fine job and expenses are down did a terrible job as he put it past the poor planning that ok eric cantor as chose is

next to tj's the victims of hurricane irene he's now even though back in two thousand and four he said it would be wrong to to require that a bill to fund fema be balanced by cuts elsewhere he said that would be of course that was during the bush administration when spending was like gruden you know five trillion dollars spent as much as we get there can be wrong back and he doesn't for but now after joc when he wanted to raise a million dollars a billion dollars to pay for joplin he wanted to cut a billion and a half from the green car program from the from green transportation and now he same to cut global warming disasters we have to cut programs from the e.p.a. to cut global warming he's also proposing cutting first responder programs that are paid for by thema to pay for fema what am i missing here you're missing i mean is it what is wrong with their cameras he was wrong in two thousand and four and he's right now there's absolutely nothing wrong with the idea of cutting spending to

make these payments today for real national disaster which clearly i mean their genius experience some real difficult times with an earthquake and with that the hurricane but there's nothing wrong with cutting spending we waste all over there because spending all day long isn't the whole point of the federal government having the ability to borrow or own or generate surpluses so the. during times of crisis and spend money in order to deal with those prices this is a generous crisis people right now we have the money elsewhere to just get it from the matter of cutting i think that's wrong or it's more of a matter of allocation irvine or is insane and you know rock he's saying cut thema so that you can have money for fema but he suggests i think it's i think what he's referring to is a reallocation of funds i think that's a better way a clearer way to understand here so it's not authors it's not a matter of madi out into the marrow helicopters to massachusetts because they're going to have years in or are in iraq i mean this is this is nuts i think you're missing his his main point his main point is that we have an emergency we need to spend money but we need to get the money from someplace so we've seen point is

we've got to take yes we need to take her to take out something that's going to reduce what's known as what we're going to do. something that is going to make the economy even worse. will not windows he doesn't owe it to reallocate the money but is there looking at her as if i have a if i wrecked my car i'm not going be able to buy a guitar because i'm going to have to reallocate them on your car and you're not you are i guess not the us is reality to us national budget and they're not the us again it's not the same but the point is that it's the same philosophy it's not a matter of let's shut down some of these green programs that are funding the chevy volt that absolutely nobody wants to buy your let's get rid of the corporation for public broadcasting we can defund somebody's talking about nothing close to the amount of money that you need for feeling well if you want to do that you can so i burst out of that you had all the subsidies how about that why don't we get rid of the ethanol subsidies we could save you know you do that overnight we could if congress have the will to do what we need to prioritize goodness this is where

you're going to find is a whole bunch of midwestern republicans are going to be opposed to that we need to pray for joy on the seas you know the republican town hall fiasco continues now we've got congressman ryan asking forty bucks a pop to write out a question that he may or may not answer in advance among others we have for florida congressman b.m. webster saying that producing brought. posters of people we had a sixty six year old vietnam vet they got got this guy's facebook information he had his personal information put on a lot of poster passed out the next one along with several other people several women in fact who feel like they've been stalked and now they were expecting was that after the democrats got sabotaged by the tea party folks and the tea party has not specific instructions about how to interrupt them and how to do this it was a very well organized thing the republicans apparently thought the same thing was going on but none of these people these wanted posters are anything other than average constituents and one hundred percent of them are actually republicans you know what the hell is going on here now you've got a congresswoman or a jeweler you were. from russian state who says she sold five town hall meetings

why because she's walked into coffee shops and said i'm here let's have a town hall meeting with six or seven people sit around she's afraid to announce them in advance for fear somebody will ask her if she wants to privatized medicare i mean that what's happening is that the paul ryan vote where everybody except for three every house of representatives or the house of representatives voted to end medicare and rick perry saying he wants to privatizing social security is high on the hell out of these republican but just great to do this that's just not what's happening because five hundred thirty five members of congress some of them are going to use some of them are going to conduct business in a different ways and some of them are going to do stupid things and do it in silly way i mean that's that's the truth of it and the fact is that the good thing that the great thing about american the great thing about a representative democracy is that these contingent will be will be held accountable in jos and twelve in the second century as regular representatives and we say why if they aren't if they've the constituents are happy with that vote them out of office and that's what they have to do and so i think it's i think i mean we

have to be here he said about it here's an example is it but i don't think this is a major crisis these guys made a mistake in her buehler she made a mistake in that she didn't go with the obama model just how friendly big town hall meetings where you planned all these friendly questions if you ever get a tea party member somebody confronts. and you just ignore them and then go on vacation for ten days that would have been a better model if the lives of editors. cheney. big dick dick cheney's book tour continues the vice president the one american a man in america with no pulse over them the i guess there's a show of vampires on t.v. anyway. he's touting his own war crimes in his book in my time is former the former chief of staff to lawrence colin powell warrants wilkerson the lady see news that change was president basically pro practical purposes for the first term of the bush administration and that he fears being tried as a war criminal these a verb

a term from the number two guy you know under colin powell so question should we try to cheney now that he has not just admitted to brag about war crimes were crimes that we have executed both japanese and filipino prisoners in prison respectively world war two and spanish-american war for should we try him here and get more or should we have the worlds try him at the hague i think some americans like to give him an award because when you're talking about mohammad an individual that masterminded nine eleven from a she was one or he was waterboard after he was waterboarding because if you believe as you say it's i'm going to miss again he says only between two and three people water boarded one do a lot leave shaikh muhammad and i don't think any american feels bad about collegiate mohammed being water boarded even more i do if it produces bad information and puts our soldiers at risk we have soldiers who have died as the result of information that came from waterboarding the cia has said that they have documented that dick cheney is not only promoting something that puts our security

at risk but the man is a war criminal we have dessert thousand americans that died because the clichés mom of three thousand americans not because he wasn't waterboarding no but they waterboarding him and others to get actionable information which may have prevented an attack in l.a.x. what we know now from from the nine eleven commission others is that we actually actually we. could we could have put two and two together that's a whole other discussion and i think the republicans for the last year have been looking for a leader they've been looking for a strong presidential candidate i think dick cheney has been making compelling case that he's the man to lead them in two thousand and twelve these two he said they don't work crime scene i'm talking about hitting on me keeping americans safe we helped you in the bush administration how do you keep america safe. in march put in charge of the terrorism task force and never meeting until september during which time nine eleven was planned and executed on his watch nine eleven happened because this guy refused to do anything for eight months how can you go lots of itself out as you know america is the one hundred three excuses this guy's got the america

most wanted islamic extremists attacked america they're the ones that is in charge of the counterterrorism task force that never met until september of two thousand and eleven how do you do tell me how could this guy just eight to hijack planes it is the one who murdered al qaeda is that he was in the drug samaritan's al qaeda is the one that al gore told on the day that he left office go look for al qaeda look for look for osama bin laden and dick cheney said not going to do that sorry we're there that we're too crazy you know he was visiting iraq and there and the oil and the energy task force the energy task force sort of medium march of two thousand and one and what were they doing they were dividing up the oil fields in iraq where you know rack nine months before nine eleven now you tell me what the hell's going on with this guy and we never laid all those lame. i think i mean you're saying that they sat down and conspired before well before nine eleven to divide up what they were going to do in iraq yet so you're saying they knew you were invited to. a

conservative organization yes because george bush in one thousand nine hundred nine told mickey herskowitz his biographer and this is on the record told him when when they were ghostwriting a charge to keep his autobiography but his father made a horrible mistake in iraq by not going into baghdad and by only having the world last one hundred days if he became president. the first thing he would do is invade iraq because and he would keep that thing going through the next election through the two thousand and four election because that would give him political capital and as a wartime president always gets reelected he was right. and he and he told us in advance he was going to do this we have two different members of this cabinet who have come forward now and said the first cabinet meeting and this was in january of two thousand and one the first topic of the first kind of meeting was how do we invade iraq this was ten months before nine eleven but there's no connection a month before now you're not saying that the bush administration knew about nine eleven i hope no i'm saying they failed to stop it and they should have and this guy is running around saying he kept america safe when he did he was selling blue

is basically defined as the oil fields in iraq for the war that they wanted to have it over in iraq laying the blame on of three thousand american innocent americans being murdered and a man who has committed his life to public service consumer is under is a patriot is responsible for those is slanderous and should not know it is and not only that and not only that he then committed war crimes that caused the death of other american soldiers if you go back and you look at as he says ask anybody the cia is going to say what's the major thing receipts what you're looking at age anything that is causing this crazy to have oliveira for jihad he in a way i mean if you can see and forgive a fair you rate is so great it's causing us to go to violence you hate america they whatever but because one mode already worried what a movement what motivated them because when i left behind their question motivated them by their nine eleven what motivated those it is lawmaker extremists to commit the horrible acts of murder in moscow when they took over the theater what caused them in india and all these other countries where there had massive tax we didn't

cause i would go to the radio i was a. bin laden was the fact that we had soldiers in saudi arabia as the result the first gulf war and that we were buying oil on the cheap from a corrupt administration in saudi arabia look you know better we will queue to run your car why aren't you responsible for the deaths of three thousand people because such a connection is ludicrous and that's. they made about cheney that's why it should be made about somebody who is not responsible for the deadline day three thousand thank you both for being very few. coming up the department of justice throws a roadblock in the merger of two of the nation's largest wireless communication providers but a.t.m. he is vowing to fight back so i will just stop affect the consumer. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's time to break through it sort of if you've made who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see.