they don't need warrants any longer to tap your phone on. the you know over two hundred powers and in fact the the inspector general has a justice department who looked into this and said you know there's been a serious abuses here two hundred thousand national security we used to calve to get warrants. were our fear levels tom ridge. came right out in his own book and talk about how he made the decision to leave government when he was told during the kerry campaign during the john kerry campaign and his father in a campaign to raise the terror level basically whenever john kerry got good publicity in their words the national security state was being used as a political tool and and it actually was quite effective every time john kerry got a little mojo then suddenly big you know whip out the at the airports we now have our church our x. ray scanners the company that michael chertoff lobbies for their initial deal was forty million bucks now we're seeing them porno x. ray scanners all over the all over the country i mean michael chertoff is doing

very well thank you very much we use this is an excuse to violate power to isolate politicians from voters' hate you can probably as media you gotta pay to come into this meeting with your obvious that it's kind of the end of privacy and of activism that's the that's the national security state part then there's feels llama phobia we've seen where as we talked last night with. the. it was here from from the center for american progress but how it's a forty two million dollars a year industry it's become a major tool of fox so-called news to make their viewers afraid and so they're constantly check the t.v. i was ago and what's going on they've created an other that they have so successfully basically demonized and it leads the series rights the drone strikes and rights abuses human rights women's you know the pretty people in these horrible prisons that they danna writes about what for example. we have had two and now the

third consequence of nine eleven we are in two wars and arguably several others with two full blown wars frankly are more likely to die from lightning than from a terrorist strike anyone who went through the troubles will be ira i mean you had maggie thatcher was the then the prime minister of england they blew up number ten downing street you're the equivalent of white house you know they almost killed the prime minister the prime minister of italy eleanor actually was killed he was kidnapped and stuck in the back of a truck and died europe went through this period back in the eighty's seventy's eighty's ninety's where they had terrorist problems and many of their citizens were killed arguably as a proportion their population something similar to what we experienced nine eleven and they didn't turn into a you know the england didn't in italy didn't with the red brigades germany didn't with the bottom line off down canyons and they didn't turn into a nation of great fear and loathing instead they said you know we're better than

that we're greater than that which is what bill clinton did by the way when until a very tried to terrorize us by blowing up the oklahoma city that so many of which did exactly what osama bin or rather water here's one of his one of the poets bin ladin he said the mosher they had seen recently forced bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in afghanistan and iraq which is evidence of the success of the bleed until bankruptcy plan with all its permission this is what osama bin ladin said his goal he also said that every dollar of al qaeda defeated a million dollars by the regime of allah the sight despite the large loss of a huge number of jobs besides the other words what bush did is what bin laden did and for ten years now america has become a different nation we need to wake up from that and go back to the noble nation that we once were.

it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question ten years later can you name anything important and good that came out of nine eleven your choices are yes they've posted this good thing as a comment or no i've posted while i'm disappointed that it's on arbonne dot com to vote and leave a comment about what you see as a positive legacy of nine eleven or why you're disappointed by how we as a country have dealt with that tragedy the hole will be open until frome. just. the. time of the good the bad of the very very screwed to the sport of vividly ugly who could argue desmond tutu and the dalai lama they along with seven other nobel peace prize laureates with a letter to president obama to oppose the keystone x.l.

tar sands by flying the same pipeline that twelve hundred people were arrested for the white house for protesting the letter reads and now you were nominated for president you told the world that under your leadership and working together the rise of the oceans will begin to flow in the planet will begin to heal this is a critical moment to be good enough but make a lasting contribution and well being of everyone on this planet let's hope the president listens to these wise individuals and keeps his campaign promise and says no to big oil the bad senator david vitter republican from louisiana tweeted yesterday that he would not be attending tonight's president of the president's job joint speech to congress about jobs tonight. because he has to catch a football game and stop there tweeted family and friends coming over see it's game tomorrow already on the recovery and super bowl that's right senator vitter thinks football is more important jobs however now here is senator harry reid scheduled

votes before and after president obama's speech basically as a way to force senators who attend and vitter was not at all happy about that he wrote in his face with page several harry reid well it was my own sense came party at home sounds like senator vitter has completely forgotten his job description is look at the bright side least he's not trying to skip out of the president's speech for a rendezvous again with the d.c. madam at least we don't think yes and the very very ugly of bank of america even though the bank is on the verge of collapse. seen it still found time to harass one of its customers last month deborah crabtree lost her husband to cancer over her husband still owe the bank a three thousand dollar mortgage and bank of america wanted its money so the bank didn't even wait one day to begin own doing her for that money during the during the wake her husband's wake the bank of america called the crabtree home every fifteen minutes and called as many as forty eight times

a day demanding that she pay up the bank even urge her to spend her last five thousand dollars on paying them rather than providing her husband with a funeral this is the same bank the gladly took forty five billion dollars in bailout money courtesy of taxpayers but deborah crabtree just when you thought the banks couldn't sink any lower they do that's a very theory. coming out the state of florida passes a controversy a law requiring all welfare recipients to undergo mandatory drug tests so that some violations of the fourth amendment are just standard protocol for screwing over the poor. but drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it through and be made who can you trust no one who is you know view with the global machinery to see where we had it state controlled capitalism is called

sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. five. ft. five in. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour florida governor rick scott signs off on a new war requiring welfare recipients to take and pay for their own drug test. so

is this a pathetic attack on the poor just to make extra money for the state and extra money for governor scott himself and the united nations knows how to get us all out of this global economic recession so why are europe in the united states not listening more on this since night skillets. it looks like republicans in florida are suffering from a case of selective amnesia when it comes to the constitution that's right the party of the touts its constitutional knowledge has no problem shredding up our nation's founding document when it comes to screwing over poor people last may governor of florida and health insurance fraud rick scott signed a new law that requires welfare recipients in his state to undergo mandatory drug

testing to continue receiving benefits only that people have paid thirty five bucks for their own drug test. it's just so happens that a few years ago governor scott co-founded an urgent care medical center chain in florida that administers drug tests and will probably make big bucks thanks to this new law that he has championed and now if you see us something to say about it they filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that mandatory drug tests violate an individual's right against unreasonable search and seizure so is governor scott violating floridians right to privacy and our other states next door is florida the only one who's governor owns a large stake in a company that makes money when people have to get drug tests their offer is take on the issues t.j. walker political commentator and managing editor of daily national teach it welcome thanks for having me good to be with you great to have you with us i understand you

support governor scott in this is the case. well yes because as you may have noticed the republicans and conservatives have done a great job of demonizing all government and making it all seem illegitimate whether they want to admit it or not this actually makes a government policy seem more legitimate to most taxpayers still if you believe in government like i do and i think you do you can't simply dismiss this because it makes people feel more comfortable about where their tax dollars are going so why do you hate the constitution. come on i mean it maybe it's not perfect but you and i have to take a blood test to get a life insurance policy that's just raise its hand life insurance companies. well that no one's forcing anyone to take a welfare check there are strings attached any time you take money if you are a client or if you are starving i would submit that you are under coercion t.j. shouldn't you know should we care about well i mean it's not ideal but i get it we

it seems especially in the last few years the republicans and the right wing constantly attacking the very notion of government helping people because the idea is it only makes matters worse here's a measure that is going to give here is a measure that's going to make a lot of taxpayers it least feel as though their tax money is not going to support someone's drug addiction ok t.j. how about this that when you go along with me on this the total welfare budget of the united states is a fraction new i'll know that i'm talking about a single digit fraction of the welfare budget for corporate america how about we start drug testing all the guys on wall street all billionaires and wall street the koch brothers koch industries they get millions and millions of dollars in government subsidies how about all of the welfare queens to use ronald reagan's old phrase in business and industry shouldn't they be drug tested also. might not be

a bad idea so what's going to be the you know what are we going to hold back from them i mean right now the barrel rolls right now we're hearing four billion dollars to these big companies exxon mobil will not get any more money if they're if we find out that their executives are using drugs or for that matter maybe we should you know look into whether they're like david vitter whether they're using the d.c. madam i mean if we're going to really we're going to this and i'm going to allow into the lives i think i'm to the left of you on that i'd rather just take away the big corporations welfare altogether so in fact you'd like to go everybody's wealth . you know i've been in favor of taking away i'm not in favor of taking away welfare ok then if your argument is that people on welfare or well actually i'm not sure i understand your argument are you are you saying a that some people who are on welfare are on welfare because they have substance abuse problems and therefore we should punish them by not giving

a number. rather than deal no substance abuse or are you saying that some people on welfare have nothing better to do so they're going to get high and we don't want to be encouraging that is that your point and that's a neither one of those is my point my point is we live in a time when republicans and conservatives have so deal a generalized any government effort to actually help people if this is a measure that is going to make the average taxpayer feel more comfortable that their tax money is not going to rectally to help pay for someone's drug habit then it's going to make everyone feel more comfortable about government and government welfare and it will decrease the likelihood that florida and other states will completely eliminate welfare simon fazer of welfare i so you want to hear what you don't want to stigmatize the corporate c.e.o.'s who get their welfare i'm assuming what i said but i said no you said take away their welfare state do you want that anybody who owns a homeowner who is pain mortgage and taking to actually the actions welfare

essentially not paying taxes on the interest that they should have to take the drug test i did yes you can and i just have to disagree with here i'm going to disagree with your premise that having to take a drug test or a blood test is that big of a stigma i'm right here and in new york city a lot of people on wall street a lot of them have to take drug tests it's simply not that uncommon in most companies or you think it's. push this walk through knowing that a company that is riddled with conflicts of interest he's horrible there's no doubt about that i am. you concerned about i mean you know drug test i used to a friend of the fellow by the name of stanley back in the seventy's he was selling he was a chemist and he was selling high times magazine for five or ten dollars these little drug tests and use them to test if the drugs you bought were good. when in the eighty's they started mandating drug tests stanley sort of business for three hundred million bucks because the base forty fifty dollars drug says seven cents

for the chemicals in them aren't you concerned that they're pushing us more and more to have these this giant drugs as an industry they have this nanny state looking into every part of our lives like you're advocating we look into the lives of welfare recipients. well i definitely think we should not have governors owning the companies that make all the money from that scott is riddled with conflicts of interest there's no doubt about that is in a perfect world no but you know we've seen a world where the right wing has absolutely destroyed the whole idea that government should help people so here's a chance for at least the government to seem more accountable to seem more transparent and if that makes the majority of voters not just democrats and liberals but independents and even some conservatives less angry and upset about welfare spending that may in fact preserve welfare spending in the long run so snoopy a nanny state for welfare recipients but not for anybody else but i've got it t.j. thanks a lot for dropping by tonight. thank you tom is

a bigger issue here when it comes to privacy as republicans try to violate the privacy of individuals down in florida there's still one entity that gets to keep its privacy act and that's corporations and the for the member of the united states is basically the one that says that your. your papers and can't be searched without somebody swearing that a crime is a good committed base you know it's the core of our concept of privacy for them and you have the right to privacy in your home but frankly when you go to work you surrender your right to privacy. to the corporation they can over they can look at your keystrokes they can read your e-mail they can listen to your phone calls and messages they can even ask for bodily fluids from and you know drug testing for example this is you know but try asking your employer's insurance if your employer take a look at your ports the fact of the matter is that the very same corporations who

say to us employees sorry you have no rights to privacy the same corporations are claiming rights to privacy in fact eighty ninety when before the first the third circuit i believe it was and and with it there was this four year of freedom of information act and they claimed that this was a viable solution the fourth memorize as the third circuit court of appeals they said corporations like human bein's face public embarrassment harassment and stigma now fortunately that ruling was overruled by the supreme court but only in this very narrow area of for of the of the freedom of information act the fact of the matter is most corporations in most areas still hold completely and this right to privacy even though they say to us come to work for us no rights of privacy it's astounding this is another dimension of corporate personhood and the abuse of corporate personhood that needs to be addressed quickly go to move to amend dot org for more information.

he science is my opportunity to share with you some of the week's most you will during interesting or weird science news if you know somebody got metaphors we use an english language to describe human behavior like gut feeling it takes guts. well or some science behind these phrases because there are open lines of communication between our brains and our guts and a new study shows that in lab mice at least these channels allow gut bacteria to change motions and behavior the latest evidence for this gut brain axis comes from javier bravo university college cork and fed mice with a probiotic bacterium called lactobacillus ram knows it's so often found in yogurt dairy products pretty common stuff it's the stuff that makes yogurt milk milk

a yogurt you know the probiotics that all the yogurt properties are so crazy about and bravos study the bacteria change the levels of signaling chemicals in the rodents brains and reduced behaviors associated with stress anxiety and depression this is possible because our guts and our brains are actually directly connected by a very long very fast branching nerve called the vegas now which transmits information from the gut and other visceral organs in the gut organs to the brain bravo found that his mice after regularly eating the lactobacillus bacteria were more likely to spend time in the exposed parts of a maze which is a common lab test for lack of anxiety symptoms if they felt just fine or hanging around and they also passed the test for being free of symptoms of depression meaning they were list like likely to drift motionlessly and plopped into water. and during stressful situations they build up lower levels of stress hormones the

gov xperia also boosted the role of cabbage she a.b.a. a brain chemical it calms us down and helps regulate emotions have a works by docking with pavel receptor proteins and bravo found that lactobacillus increase the number of these receptors in parts of the brain associated with learning memory and emotional control so one of the most important findings of the study was the these bacteria can influence the same brain chemicals in the brain that antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs to other important finding a broader study is that he was able to prove that bacteria also had the same impact on the fully formed brains of healthy adult mice not just the developing brains of baby mice scientists say there's no reason to believe the results of the study can be duplicated in humans so this means it's very possible that probiotics can be used to treat mood mood mood and anxiety disorders in the future say go ahead and

enjoy that yogurt parfait that much as brighten your mood. after the break united nations issued a warning to the united states and its daily take i'll tell you what that warning is and why our political leaders aren't wilson. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions compelled to break through get through and if we have made who can you trust no one who is you know if you do with the global machinery to see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. if.

your take my take is the part of our show where you get the chance to make yourself heard our first viewer comments and i was a post democratic underground dot com it was a response to my daily take from earlier in the week when i saw that there's a class war going on here in the united states a war between f.d.r.'s new deal and the fundamental american perspective that if we all work hard and live on a ball lives then we can achieve the american dream and the new raw deal i've said that the super rich don't want to pay their share and the result is that the rest

of us don't have been some bones of economic security and the billionaires along with their bought and paid for right wing echo chamber have already taken up arms and drawn the battle lines and i call on all of you to get involved. these billionaires are just want to watch and cycle just one election away from fitness and finishing it off once and for all their thirty year war against working people that have been kicked off inserted by ronald reagan just one election away from killing off fifty hours a new deal and replacing it with paul ryan's new deal for billionaires. james hoffa knows what we're up against he knows that charles koch isn't afraid to shell out millions of bucks to win this war so what charles koch and the oligarchs fully committed to the struggle it's time for the rest of us to wake up and decide whose side we're on the billionaires and the rest of america. that's right i said if republicans win the election in two thousand and twelve it used to more and more of

the lifestyles of the working poor but one viewer posted this comment over a democratic underground you call for us to wake up and choose a side and i agree but i want you to tell me what you think waking up and choosing a side really means in my heart and mind i chose a side long ago now what do we have the do we do the same things we've done in previous election cycles in my opinion we need to do more to what we've done in the past has only brought us here one election away from a new deal for billionaires you're clear thinker this person wrote over to you with a deep understanding of the situation which we find ourselves other than all of the normal election year activities what's your recommendation for success and of quote interposed the way i see it this is a choice between the new deal a strong middle class and the raw deal a class made up of the working poor because we've become too complacent with both parties and previous election cycles which is what is to where we are now a political environment where the entire republican party and frankly

a good chunk of the democratic party have been bought out by the super rich in their pick or permissions. so we need to do everything within our power to elect people to both parties who support the vision of the new deal and the rebuilding of america's middle class and forget supporting the middle class was a position of the g.o.p. during the eisenhower era after all it was eisenhower who famously said should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history there is a chinese splinter group a few texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas their number is negligible and they are stupid. eisenhower we need to expose those politicians who favor the raw deal and do everything within our power things like campaigning in primary elections and becoming precinct committed people in the democratic party to support leaders who will work to revive the ideals of the new. our next comment is from the tom hartman facebook page keith asked i want

to pose the website that tom talks about concerning corporate personhood and changing it and when have that i don't know if monitors this page if so you are the truest of patriots and thank you keith i do see many of the comments that are posed that our facebook page on twitter and on our forums over it's on our radar and thanks for your kind complement the website you're looking for that i talk about frequently is moved to amend or work is also sold off dot org c e l d f the community environmental legal defense fund in addition of the move to amend petition to find lots of great information over move to amend or about how to get involved in putting an end to corporate personhood including webinars local action to kids and training sessions and strategy meetings in your own neighborhood or final comment came to us via twitter tonight last week i ruffled some feathers over at the right wing web site news busters when i suggested that today's republican party is infected with a powerful strain of anti americanism. for thirty years they've campaign

and spoken openly about their dislike for our government big government terrible stuff that extraordinary gift our government that extraordinary gift that was created by the founding fathers is as reagan said the problem not the solution to our problems i beg to differ i love america to lead in america and i'm encouraged by the knowledge that most americans agree with that sentiment that america can be good. it's time to put pussy foot around and call the hustlers running the republican party and their mouthpieces on the right but they are. anti-american to graham the news was busters columnist who called me out for my anger at the republicans took to twitter to ask i wonder why thom hartmann has to make t.v. commentators and james does that make him more american. well tim sudden aside wondering about your rather odd obsession with how i'm dressed i'm pretty sure

america doesn't have a dress code but if it did i'd definitely nominate a jacket and jeans tucker carlson bow ties not quite my style that's it for your take my take your take my dick if you like your comments and suggestions heard on this segment of the picture listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page but twitter at tom underscore apartment or in the champ room on the message boards or through the blog at tom hartman dot com you can also leave a message on the ramp line at two two five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound off it's all welcome to remember that your comments may be used on the air. president obama just presented his jobs plan a four hundred forty seven billion dollars play.