welcome to the lower show the real headlines with none of the mercy of a lot of washington d.c. now tonight we're going to speak to republican presidential candidate buddy roemer he's the former governor of louisiana he's been excluded from every debate thus far and he's refusing to accept the big checks from political action committees so i wonder what are elections and be like if our candidates did that also the media is right now going crazy over the tit for tat between joined us on the guardian as to how the unredacted version of state department cables made it to the internet let's look at what they're missing in the midst of all this drama we're going to speak of having a stroll about the latest state department cable that reveals evidence of

a gruesome murder of iraqi civilians which the military tried to cover up or you have all that i am or if you are not including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so yesterday president obama announced that he would be presenting his new jobs plan for a joint session of congress on september seventh and that is when everything a rocket the september seventh just happens to be the same night as the next republican presidential debate john boehner also made a fuss because giving a speech in front of a joint session that involves all kinds of security sweeps and planning and what not and so the president agreed to bludge and move his speech to september eighth that just happens to be football night so now americans are even more angry you know what it's been a ridiculous chain of events and so of course the mainstream media has gone well force with. trainer refused to let the president have the house and the president

has caved in crowds for a stranger in the bush white house doesn't know how to fight the latest round of obama versus bain are they close to being or yes again this is just petty and silly isn't it oh it is absolutely it's embarrassing the president versus the speaker of the house what a difference a day makes in washington d.c. . you know i really wonder how many pundits out there were called in last minute last night to talk about this most important story of the day how many other stories and get bumped to discuss the never ending tit for tat between president obama and john boehner let's face it for starters that most america most of america would have given a crack at the republican debate and a jobs speech over a laugh because they probably wouldn't be watching either one anyway now when you mess with football that's a whole different story but alas here we are again remembering the mainstream media well which is incased in a glass bubble that includes washington d.c.

and new york they are the establishment and they live in this bubble and they know nothing else they've gone ahead and completely missed the point of this entire debacle americans don't want to speech they want action they want to see the government figure out a way to create more jobs be the government doing it itself by investing in infrastructure and education you name it or maybe they want the government to kick the big corporations in the ass and tell them to stop complaining about uncertainty when all of the odds are already clearly in their favor because they get the subsidies they find a tax loophole they set up subsidiaries and offshore tax havens basically they don't give anything back and they do all of this while threatening that if they do dare have to give anything back they're going to take jobs elsewhere as in a broad so for they're already doing that even though those tax loopholes that they already have are supposed to provide the incentives for them to keep business here so oh that's just a whole frustrating mess but that's a problem that can be solved that's something that congress can fix with action that's what we pay them for we don't pay them to sit around and pick partisan

fights but unfortunately that is exactly what they get to do because the mainstream media become so obsessed with the partisanship and only focuses on it so their entire function in america today has turned into simply being a distraction and said of talking to people who have credible ideas about how to create jobs they focus on the partisan gossip instead of calling out the president calling out congress for allowing debt ceiling debates to take the center stage over the suffering of. more than fifteen million americans who need work they focus on the sensationalist celebrity style feud between john boehner and barack obama and you know how you always hear the terms well that's just lodging to that's how washington worth blah blah blah well guess what part of the reason the washington works that way is because the mainstream media lets it so go on keep arguing over who gave more points what hour the president should deliver his speech in the meantime the rest of us will keep calling for some action we'll take in our surroundings or member that people are struggling out there but the mainstream media now because they're just content to miss.

our now before we move on to our interviews here's one more story that has to do with the absurdity of the media see on wednesday morning b.p.'s offices in moscow are raided by russian law enforcement officers who are looking for documents pertaining to a three billion dollar lawsuit from minority stakeholders in t.n. k b p a joint venture between b.p. and the russian government so this raid was met with official outrage by b.p. representatives and a statement they said that there was quote no legitimate grounds for security and they went on to say that the police invasion was illegal but what's more interesting about this whole situation is the way the media has decided to cover the event here on c.n.n. international based in london check out what one analyst had to say. so you put this on top of all the problems of. all the problems with the roster of fuel that didn't have been announced in january of this year but fell apart in may and it's

just been it's just been such a hard time for bob dudley we were talking about this earlier the c.e.o. of b.p. who you know took over after all the problems in the gulf of mexico well he came from t k b.p. he was then sent out there to try to sort all that out the first time and now he's back in london and now he has to have yet another headache was version of. whole or he he i think serious we're supposed to feel sorry for b.p. because they've been through a lot after the oil spill the gulf i mean come on i was acting in gradually this guy views it took some savvy to paint b.p. as some sort of corporate victim out there but their message news sources also decide to sprinkle their own two cents on this story as well the new york times headline for this story reads memo to exxon business with russia might involve guns and balaclavas guns and a lot of you know this raid must have been pretty intense i think about.

ok so that we can show you that much there but that's also because there wasn't really much to show there was no guns there was no balaclavas you know these are awfully openly loaded opening statements for a paper to make out there but i got a question how come the media barely paid any attention to the rate of affairs here at home waged on the guitar company gets it and you probably haven't seen any coverage but that's rated the gibson facility and then this because of the type who would be used to create their famous guitars and the video actually looks strikingly similar to the b.p. rate so while the music world is probably infuriated infuriated excuse me over this movie rather than dedicating coverage to the media wants to focus on b.p. and the new york times and c.n.n. international see a story involving russia western company in a police raid and despite what the actual story is a combination well it's just too good it's like catnip for the mainstream media and there when the u.s. government reads it gives an factory it's just business as usual nothing to even

talk about and sadly nobody's me the effort to call them out on their obvious bias here so i guess i've got to be the one to do it. now we saw into gary johnson and fred karger on this show both republican presidential candidates for two thousand and twelve and both of whom have been left out of the recent televised debates so tonight we have yet another candidate that isn't being allowed to voice his opinions and share his ideas on the national stage and that's former governor of louisiana buddy roemer see but he hasn't met the qualifications put in place for the next political debate because each participating candidate must have registered at least four percent in polls and that's something this campaign manager called. rules actually use the forward but you know i can't say that on t.v. but what really makes buddy stand out is that he's put a one hundred dollars cap on his campaign contributions and is not going to accept any money from political action committees so why give yourself such an obvious disadvantage and say no to big checks let's find out earlier i caught up with

former louisiana governor and republican presidential candidate buddy roemer and i first asked him about his history of switching parties see but he used to be a democrat but in one thousand nine hundred one he became or republican. a couple of things one was over time i found myself in my official duties. being more and more prone to doing republican things what a republican picked up a god that was in balance taxes that were low business friendly jobs being important a strong military to keep america free an education system that works best locally and didn't come from washington those are kind of republican principles and they don't always follow. and they're not always successful but i just found myself i grew up a democrat in the south a conservative democrat and most democrat and most southerners born in the forty's and fifty's were democrats. so i was born

a democrat conservative and then over time i changed and then number two but i was governor of louisiana i found it was a one party state everybody was democrat all my legislators were democrats now you know what a one party state is it's a dictatorship there's no good pay. i don't mean to pick on. well it's true i know the story. you know it's a one party state wouldn't wouldn't go as far as calling it a dictatorship but i wonder how much former president ronald reagan may have influenced your decision in that sense and i was just speaking about a year old you aside when you were a member of congress and said that if you ever want to be president you have to do one two things you have to be governor to get the executive experience and be you have to be a republican so is that a little bit of it to you just what the resume or i mean it was there in the in the congress i will say it would go well you false these were conservative democrats

there were forty three of us and we gave president reagan his majority in the house the the republicans were a minority and we made the difference for them so i was used to working with republicans i was used to crossing the aisle louisiana is not really a party state as i said it was mostly one party so i decided that one of the contributions i could make to my children and grandchildren was developing a two party state so now that i would be a republican we had six members of our legislature republican out of one hundred forty four today it's sixty percent republican in the louisiana legislature and we are two party state i was only in and secondly do you think of the state is any better off just because there are two parties from a lot of people were years ago could say that the two parties look very much alike these days sure there are some of those those fringe issues you could say are some of the social issues that really divide them but at the end of the day and this is something that i know you you fight against even if we look at your campaign

contributions one hundred dollars a limit that you set on it in a day they're all getting the same corporate money they're all getting the same money from all the banks and it's fair to say but i think they serve their interests above the people's. let me approach it this way good points made. i give you an a in this debate thank you you're welcome. but i look at it slightly differently. the two parties encourage bickering and occasional debate and i think that's very healthy it really issue i've ever known and i'm sixty seven i'm not a baby all the issues that i've looked at abortion. our of government. size of government our most decided they need to be touched and felt and debated and the trouble with the one party is that the party always falls victim to the cult of personality and so it becomes

a one man or one woman show like two parties there are three parties where our core party is what about the you know math ability for more also what america but there's a limit to chaos as compared to debate and i've been very independent i also call it democracy while it is occasionally very issues that calls for that but i agree with you that both parties or an awful lot alike i agree review that most debate is nonexistent but i'd disagree that one party can ever be as good as two or more i disagree with that i make that statement but let me only continue on here with why it is that you want to be the republican president in two thousand and twelve you left politics for a very long time so why is it now that you decided to come back and run i think america is in trouble. and i don't think the normal political process is going to

solve it in fact i think the normal political process has been corrupted by special interest money and this is why are only receiving donations that maximum are one hundred dollars i need a million people at one hundred dollars. it can be done and you realize they are quite a disadvantage there right for example all of the other republican contenders in the race have super pacs are taking in as much money as they can and president obama has been running for reelection is rumored to perhaps be able to have a one billion dollar campaign. that's true. well i consider at a disadvantage here's the way i look at it. if your job if you were running for president and you got elected your job would be to lead america and be free to do what you think was necessary. if you take of

a special interest money you're not free you can't regulate the banks you can't do health care without giving insurance companies a special place you can't do obamacare without giving pharmaceutical companies a little protection the trouble with the money is it has hooks in it and it's my experience that if you care a lot harder group of small donations you're freer you're stronger you can be braver let me ask you why i'm limiting is a bit of a leader needs to be brave this time. the leader needs to talk to china honestly about run fair trade the leader needs to talk to wall street about the fun and games that bring america to its knees the leader needs to talk to mexico about sealing the border and why it's important to mexican americans as well as other

americans the leader needs to have the courage and purpose of being free to lead and i think the power of corrupt money has harmed this city that's what i think. are taking a break and make a quick correction is a joint venture between b.p. and russian investors the government and next we're going to continue our discussion with one of the twenty five presidential candidate buddy roemer and a wookie rein in wall street corporations if he were president of the us find out just enough. into the only one who would. do the work to bring justice or. health care for me right to know what my government's true if you want to know why i pay taxes . what i would characterize obama as a charismatic. of american exceptionalism.

sometimes you see a story of the six so. you think you understand it and then something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm sorry is a big. let's not forget that we are in a parked car right now. i think. either one well. we have a lot of good safe get ready for freedom. ok

so we're back for more with republican presidential candidate and former governor of louisiana buddy roemer thanks so much for staying with us tonight right now so before it's a great you were saying that

a president who doesn't have the claws of money with him in hand of special interest could be more free to lead but one of the things that we've heard often about president barack obama is that he's had his hands tied by congress and that's why he can't lead so even if he were to get elected let's say without any special interest money you still have an entire congress you have you know almost five hundred people out there that do have special interests and i don't think on the job is easy but how it all began i have no excuse. no excuse he has no experience he's never worked with the legislature always ever been was two years a senator he never started a company he never had a payroll he doesn't know to be the degrading power of overregulation i mean he doesn't even know his own country he needs to get out of the white house really i'll take him around new hampshire with me he would love to listen to real people look irish the problem with

a lot of politicians know this is that little problem with a lot of what americans think about washington in general is that they don't know what's going on in the country who they don't care because they usually have broad money. well let me that's one other thing great so you have also been excluded from all the republican presidential debates so far and you are a spokesperson went as far as calling that. answer the full word i unfortunately have to say that on t.v. but what role do you think the media plays in that is the mainstream media get to choose who is a candidate and who is considered out there on the fringes for have years really americans i guess they do i'm the only guy running for president who's been governor and congressman i'm the only guy running for president who's built a billion dollar bank with these hands with no bailout money i'm the only guy running for president who doesn't take the special interest money i'm the only guy running for president who defends american jobs and i can't get on a debate look i don't force much about it i'll get on it so they can run this

election without the other guys are saying the same thing it's like eight canaries in a coal mine every now and then a fresh breath of wind will blow through that will be me and i don't need to be on every debate you let me get on to this race will be over well we'll see if that happens so that's ready for let's go through some of the so one what you can do here right you have blamed both parties for the reason that crisis you called for it seemed. there to be thought you say that we not only need to eliminate. tax breaks for oil companies but all corporate tax breaks when it comes to energy companies but i think the problem is much larger than that right it's not just energy companies it's not only oil if we look at a report that came out yesterday that said that that's from the top one hundred companies in this country twenty five of them took more in than their entire corporations in the biggest corporations in the world we're talking about some of them than they paid in taxes so how do you fix that system how do you write three

revenue to america i know you don't because you think that's fair i don't think it's fair but i think the board of directors of the shareholders of that company or be responsible for their own company i don't know it but that you know rewarding they're rewarding those types of actions they're rewarding c.e.o.'s. and i think they're stark will begin to see you watch it happen you know you can't change the world overnight we need more information we now have the information on what c.e.o.'s make and these guys are making five hundred earth thousand times more than the average worker it's not right there needs to be balance and that look i'm not defending the system i challenge you here's the way i do it i try to do it in the spirit of the american constitution which allow also a free enterprise system but it requires a corporation to have a board of directors you know what those board directors are supposed to do run the company challenge their c.e.o. if he's making up thousand times more than the average man eats up to the board of

directors but again it's not happening the board of directors like i mentioned again they are actually rewarding that kind of work so one of the happened in this country i think that you could have said one point it was your duty your responsibility to give back to the country to give back to the community where you have so much business opportunity and now they're more than happy to just make it about the bottom line to take jobs abroad well. happen with that mentality well it's embarrassing. and it's discouraging i mean i'm a graduate of the harvard business school that's one of the best in the world are all these guys went to school and i was taught that there were there were standards of conduct and it seems to have been forgotten but i want to be careful here as a potential president i don't think the president or a room the corporate boardroom i think the board of directors should i think the

president can use his bully pulpit and talk about this issue and ask corporate america to stand up and step up and do it differently and you don't see things presidents are scared of corporate america because you likely have your money who cause they had to be apologizing it to them oh we're running out of time so they didn't have their enlightening and last the last question i got to get a foreign policy question i have spoken so much about money or i do want to know since you have been honored to be what your stance is what you would do with the wars in iraq and afghanistan the situation that we're in in libya now with the shadow wars the drone strikes that we're launching in yemen in somalia and pakistan what do you do with that in them as soon as possible and i'm assuming it's in america's best interest i use one test and it's not europe and it's not middle east it's the united states of america we have a constitution that says the president defends it and this country and my judgment

will be open spirited open hearted to work with others so what we will right now in a marriage where it's interesting now begins to this long overdue we got into iraq falsely we thought it was weapons of mass destruction they've yet to be found and we're still there bringing them home mr president and afghanistan corrupt at the top. bring them home mr president i think we need to be a lot more careful about how we treat our neighbors and how we defend ourselves this is costing those trillions losing american lives and not making the world a better place and maybe we need to get some of those claws from other military contractors out of congress and the president as well i have to wrap it up unfortunately governor thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you. for. the sky. the light will come down. so fast you

can hire us will be singing. i will tonight we have a true glimmer of hope and it comes from our country's justice department i might remember how many groups criticize the proposed thirty nine billion dollar a.t.m. t. t. mobile merger it was announced this past march as anti-competitive as detrimental to consumers and following all that criticism he went on the p.r. offensive claiming that it was going to bring thousands of jobs back to america as part of the deal but of course as an experience pointed out on yesterday's show eighteen he was trying to find ways to entice regulators to allow their massive merger. we know that the reason why they're sending jobs overseas is because they can get cheap labor but if they can make a sweet deal and get a profit off this merger then all right sure will sweeten the deal will bring five thousand jobs back to the united states. so now in one of the more shocking developments of the year the government wasn't fooled the heads of eighteen c.

and t. mobile were slapped with a surprise anti-trust lawsuit yesterday in the justice department and the twenty two page suit was sent because the government felt the thirty nine billion dollars deal was going to harm consumers and him hinder competition from other wireless providers now in a statement deputy attorney general james cole said we believe the combination of a.t.m. t. and t. mobile will result in tens of millions of consumers all across the united states facing higher prices fewer choices and lower quality products for their mobile wireless services you know what it could decide it better myself but that's what's really surprising here is eight hundred top lobbyist have been meeting with the justice department continually for a few weeks now and they were under the impression that the merger was fine and dandy for government reportedly never hinted that they had were sending out a lawsuit now it's no secret the justice department often picks and chooses when to lay out as an address lawsuits on corporations its history is rather speckled or that whole comcast n.b.c. merger that was all good so it's refreshing to see the justice department actually

saw through at least one of the deals and decide to stop eight hundred eighty s. efforts so for the government's realization of these two companies as one major corporation would that for consumers that is a true glimmer of hope. now still ahead on tonight's show we have our thursday edition of show and tell and then it won't break you make strong a lawsuit is filed over two hundred fifty thousand unredacted diplomatic cables that have now been released on the internet all the cables revealed a deadly killing spree in iraq from hands of u.s. soldiers into the dive into that topic in just a month. into the only military mechanisms if you don't work to bring justice or accountability.

i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize the obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for sleep you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything is off you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the.