there's around a ban on serbian imports to the republic which angers belgrade in july of course have been a policeman was shot dead when pristina first tried to take full control of customs since then nato led before peacekeepers have guarded the checkpoints. europe moves a step closer to energy security after russia signed a landmark deal with some of the continent's energy giants to construct the self the stream of pipeline project is designed to deliver russian downside directly to european consumers bypassing transit countries the plan to round runs under the black sea while its sister project in north st opened the response. coming up in about thirty minutes my colleague mattress will be here with a full look at your news but right now it's time to go back to washington for part two of the only on the show and an in-depth report on a man sentenced to death based on a racially motivated testimony stay with us for that.

i have time for tonight's tool time award and tonight i go to michael college i might be asking yourself who well colin is an executive in the trump organization and he co-founded the web site should trump he's a registered democrat who wants to see for some reason donald trump run for president and this week a.b.c. news was getting his political opinion on the two thousand and twelve presidential race when cohen made this comment if he does get behind whoever the candidate may be what's going to happen is that individual will basically lock up the republican nomination donald trump has more than twenty twenty two percent of the field that's out there as far as republican voters that are diehard donald trump fans and these people will follow him to wherever he goes hence of course why again i said he's become now the godfather of politics. wait what cohen thinks that trump is now the

g.o.p. presidential kingmaker godfather i'm not really sure what michael's been smoking here but donald trump has twenty two percent of all the republican primary voters locked up and are going to follow him wherever he goes we really where do you guys get these figures because we couldn't find them anywhere this guy actually reminds me of the donald himself he's totally full of crap and a.b.c. news didn't even call him out on it but didn't ask for any proof of those figures but you remember back in the spring when trump jumped on the burger bandwagon when he was flirting with a run for the white house going on every news network to spread the brother theory about president obama but even he was born in this country i am really concerned and i will tell you where this all started a week ago i used to look it up you know doctors that remember you have no knowledge this is a president of the united states the reason i have a little doubt just a little because you grew up a nobody knows when you interview people if i haven't got the nomination if i ever decide to run you may go back and interview people for my kid to go in there

remember me nobody ever comes forward nobody knows who he is or till later in his life very strange the whole thing is very strange i have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding you have people now that i've never change i mean and how i absolutely and they cannot believe what they're finding i would like. just wondering has trump ever released that information that his private investigators found when they were looking into obama's birth certificate no because trump never had any info he was just running his mouth something he's famous for it apparently he's teaching that are to his disciples as well because trump associates like michael cullen are out there again claiming that the donald is going to play the kingmaker in the g.o.p. field give me a break that claim just actually boggles my mind trump isn't even a politician he has no political clout he's a media star and the fact that trump even still gets meetings with some of the candidates including a high profile dinner this week with the g.o.p. front runners really confuses me but i had dinner last night with jim perry and i

was impressed with him i mean with romney next week and i did that with really pretty much everybody did terrifically run. yeah i'm sure that jim perry really needs donald trump's endorsement so for making the stupid claim that trump is the person who's going to decide the g.o.p. nominee next year we're going to give michael cohen tonight's tool time award. the sky. the light will come down. so why are we singing. today we have a true glimmer of hope surrounding a death penalty case out of texas which we covered earlier this week death penalty inmate duane but was sentenced to die last night the lawyers have been attempting to retry his case after the original testimony that sentenced him was deemed racially motivated psychologist by the name of dr walter testified that black people have a higher rate of violent behavior and that was used as

a key piece of testimony to ultimately lead the jury to sentenced to death over life in prison now is dr use that same argument in six other capital punishment trials around the same time as bucks and in those other cases the accused were given new trials but the texas parole board denied buck's request for clemency governor rick perry showed no signs of stopping his execution in fact perry was in iowa campaigning for the presidency was set to die now all hope was pretty much lost bucket already in his last meal and just as he was saying his prayers he received the news of the supreme court stepped in and state his execution and the highest court says that there is no guarantee that will get a retrial but they will hear his argument that is equal protection and due process rights were violated during his original trial so even if buck still does face legal injection down the road we'll know if the supreme court did step in at least to determine whether they think that happened under fair due process over buck isn't the only death row inmate that's needing intervention right now troy davis is set to be executed in georgia next wednesday unless the state's parole board or

governor steps in and davis is accused of killing an off duty police officers argued his innocence from the very beginning as there's never been any physical evidence linked to his conviction and since his original sent in the trial seven of the nine original witnesses have recanted their statements now for years human rights groups have fought for davis's clemency now as the mainstream media has begun to cover davis' impending execution more people are finally turned. in the case there are protests planned for this weekend throughout the u.s. and a letter signed by fifty one members of congress is asking the georgia parole board to grant clemency to davis so for davis and bach their lives still hang in the balance with a supreme court intervening and buck case i still argue that that really is a glimmer of hope we can only hope the georgia parole board or the georgia governor do the same thing for davis whose guilt is still very much in question. now since nine eleven the amount of money that's spent on homeland security has ballooned to at least seventy five billion dollars per year since nine eleven we also haven't

had a successful terrorist attack on u.s. soil so is all that spending been worth it not according to a new analysis detail in a book that took a look at cost effectiveness comparing the costs of the security measures with the benefits of tallied in lives saved and damages averted how they found an order for the seventy five billion and enhanced expenditures on homeland security to be deemed a cost effective they would have to deter prevent oil or protect each year against one thousand six hundred and sixty seven attacks that comes out to more than four major attacks every single day to justify that spending let's find out more about how they got these figures and let's see if we can really use this rational approach in an emotional and often irrational world joining me to discuss it is john mueller the woody hayes chair of national security studies as a faster at ohio state university he's also the co-author of the book care security and money balancing the risks benefits and costs of homeland security john i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and i guess if you can in the simplest way possible if that's possible tell us how it is that you came up with

these figures. well it's fairly straightforward analysis people have been using it for decades to deal with hurricanes what's the chance a hurricane will strike from which damage it will cause and so forth and whether you should spend money to try to protect against it and what we're doing is simply applying those standards were not pushing any on slopes just sitting standard techniques that have been used for decades throughout the world in applying it to terrorism in the case of terrorism what happens is the likelihood of a terrorist attack is very low for example and america's chance of being killed by a terrorist is about one in three point five million per year so in general it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend a lot of money to make that likelihood even lower in the lonely it department security is simply not done in this kind of analysis and when they when you do that do it you know that sort of suggests that a lot of a lot of money has been misspent now you even wrote here that you're a part was actually biased in terms of favoring for it to come out as effective and

yet it still didn't work can you explain that to us yes as a standard technique you sort of bias things when you have to choose a range of possibilities you tend to take ones that a go against the case you're trying to make so we're bending over backwards we assume the attack is really comparable a probable we assume that the destruction is comparatively high and there's a risk and if that risk benches are particularly effective and even when you do that you still find it is dead there are you there are very it's very the expenditures are very questionable now of course since nine eleven as you document here we have seen just this massive homeland security spending a bubble that continues and continues to grow it's going to be a thirty one billion dollar industry right by twenty four team but you also take a look at what was put in place before the attacks on nine eleven and what we are to spend what resources we already dedicated to homeland security and how much would you say was really in place there. it was something like twenty billion dollars a year and dezi increase of expenditures since nine eleven for just

a mistake homeland security not having to do anything to the iraq or anything like that the in total increases about a trillion dollars since nine eleven and that's mostly goli deal if we assume the old techniques remain in place of where they were before nine eleven and just b.l.u. eighty increase which obviously is not because people are worried about hurricanes or anything but because they're worried about terrorism so we feel fairly he's there's a sensible way to deal with it and what's really appalling is that these techniques which as i mentioned are you know very well known that been around forever and are applied by the department homeland security for the natural hazards like earthquakes are not applied in the case of terrorism and it may be that they realize that if they apply them as we did in the streets or manner that they're going to find enough a lot of money has been misspent and their budgets are really be lower so maybe that's the reason they don't do it don't do it i don't know i have actually i mean i think that you know one might be able to argue that our response as a country since nine eleven has been a rather emotional one and so here we are trying to apply these techniques are you

saving us forever trying to apply this logic a very rational way of thinking and i'm wondering if the two really can go together . well you have to deal with emotions and you want to make people less fearful if possible so that's a good thing if you can do so but ultimately if you don't do it this sort of scientifically and cold blooded leads you might put it you're doing it emotionally and the danger in this case we're dealing to the human life so if you're doing it irrationally what it means frequently is if you're spending you know lots of money that doesn't do much good and you're not doing things that might do good i mean they might do that so he's spending a billion dollars and it might say four lives is not as good as spending a billion dollars it would save a thousand lives that's pretty straightforward an obvious and so what you don't do is say well we've got this problem here let's throw money at it what you have to do is cold blooded lee calculate that unless you have an infinite budget which no one has so when you're spending money on things that don't say very many lives are

going to be streaming high cost it means that you've lost the opportunity to spend it on things that might save more lives at a lower cost and the only way to do that is through careful analysis and it's done all the time is that all the time but you don't build a great don't build tsunami shelter wall in bismarck north dakota. it doesn't it doesn't make sense you might build it someplace else. even though there's great shelters in california but not northern minnesota so it's that kind of analysis that needs to be done it's not complicated it's very routine it's been codified for decades and is used throughout the government and through a business and through out regular regulatory agencies i never some reason as he said that's something i refuse to do and in fact we've seen quite the opposite which is i think our politicians be able to play upon these emotions to continue funding these projects and even if we look right now secretary of defense leon panetta is starting to use this fear of defense cuts that are coming from the super committee as a way to say that it's actually going to lead to higher unemployment because so

many people are now dependent on the overall defense spending and that includes defense here at home homeland security as well as in private john i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight. my pleasure thanks a lot. still to come tonight we have our fires night friday and it's the end of the week so stick around for happy hour for takes a slap at car makers into bailout cash in a harsh new ad plus an artist makes a startling and very true confession live on fox news back with a bunch of them up. close

. to tonight's fireside with your host. this friday we need to take some time out to honor someone who really is a hero now if you watch the show on a regular basis then you know pretty well what i feel about the wars that our country is involved in around the world right now

a war in iraq that was launched out of a false premise and one that still goes on today for what reason a war in afghanistan was launched in retaliation for the attacks on nine eleven but that's now dragged on into the longest war. in u.s. history coming up on ten years in just about a month a war that's unwinnable that changed goals strategies time and time again and it's bankrupting our nation now these wars are launched and paid for by political actors waged by military commanders but not approved by the american people so we have a lot to be frustrated angry with as to the civilians in those countries whose lives have been torn apart but beyond what those of the top decide on behalf of our country whether we like it or not there are those on the ground who are actually doing the fighting doing the risking and losing of their lives now whatever it is that motivates them to go into the armed services be it patriotism or economic necessity once they're there it becomes about survival now we've seen it turn ugly we've heard horror stories of extrajudicial killings abuse torture you name it but there are others who hold on to their humanity and whatever way that they can in

the midst of what can be considered one of man's ugliest creations which is war so let's talk about sergeant dakota meyer a twenty three year old american who was yesterday awarded the medal of honor by president obama a very young man who at the age of twenty one knew his friends his brothers were trapped in the middle of a deadly firefight so he defied orders and he went in to get them not once or twice or even three times but five times he another soldier who was behind the wheel of a humvee went back it picking up those they could save and those that they could it is bodies they wanted to return to all in all dakota meyer saved thirty six people americans and afghans risking his life to save others those actions don't justify war as a whole the president awarding him a medal of honor doesn't justify the president's policies but it's something worth honoring dakota for as an individual as somebody who performed those who wrote and his story is one that should remind all americans too that we are at war that no

matter how far it might be from our borders people are dying in the wall sergeant myers showed heroism in the worst moments we should wish that no one else should have to repeat when. went there with since right at this moment wars are going to magically go away since lives will immediately stop being lost as long as our leaders send them into conflict let's zero in on this one man who did what he could in that moment to retain his humanity to save lives and bring back men that home to their loved ones. time to time for a happy hour and joining me this evening is r.t. web writer andrew blake and mike ricks associate editor of reason magazine and reason dot com thanks for joining me guys sherlock ok so we're going to start off this evening with a new commercial from ford this is the first one of

a really it's like this where apparently they come up on this unsuspecting ford buyer and they want to bring them into a room and they don't know there's going be a ton of journalists when they get there and everything's supposed to be off the cuff unscripted and we've seen one of them had like a totally dorky guy involved this time i don't know maybe they got a tea party or something take a look. i'm kristen's first. we're going to head on into the interview you know. was it buying american important to you i was going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. i was going to buy from manufacture that standing on the room win lose or draw that's what america is about is taking the chance to succeed in understanding when you fail that you've got to pick yourself up and go back to work for it is that company from the. first starter is i don't believe for a second the bad stuff is scripted come on give me a break of the commercial they don't let anything be unscripted but. it is kind of

a good one when i'm bored right i don't think you have to read a tea partier to appreciate the fact that ford didn't get a bailout fund i mean i agree it was a little shape when the bill happened but yeah i thought. that was fantastic i choose to believe that it was unscripted because i like people being able to eloquently express why you shouldn't buy cars from building a company i'm all for it just because now i know what america's about told me in less than thirty seconds and i was wrong. to take government bail and do it do it up yeah i'm going to go trash the buick and go pick up a. ford win this one right now let's take a look at so there's this artist that fox news decided to come or allow on their program because he's been creating these posters these signs on the roads and he also had a little surprise for one that he wanted to create for them take a look. so we had one of them pull up your pants no one wants to see your underwear you want to force basis well you know about your shirt. or.

the sensitive wise. you know yours. i think it's fine. i guess you. really well you think she handled it well i think she handled that really i think you would at any time you're an attractive woman is his you're a. guy or use like you could have said if you're going to start swearing profusely in a really good job or you should or like you know how to start defending the channel using some kind of a logic or logic rationale but you just have to go. for your hair and was i mean more than a totally words you were fooled by yeah i mean fox specializes in performance art it makes sense to have somebody who also specialize in performing arts on the show it's like the first time fox ever did anything or like take their side like this guy is so smug if you watch the whole thing he's waiting for like two minutes to

get the zinger in there he just wants it he's like some like washed up art school. that if you were showing those i agree i think. you guys go. yeah yeah. he's not getting invited back i was feeling about the. ok you know this is just so preposterous the university of iowa has had to apologize to michele bachmann because a tweet was sent out from the school twitter account that i was sitting police said somebody spot of the cougar or a mountain lion and the area that week and so then somebody using the account tweeted i didn't know bachmann was in town but. i know they had to apologize now for those of you don't know obviously when our audience knows cougars are supposed to be older women that prey on younger men attractive attractive already women. scuse me her argument is attractive aside from the crazy i think that she is a beautiful woman but if you go to her eyes too they have to apologize for it it's

funny what they should apologize at the university of iowa has no rhythm because they wrote. if it was a very clannish symbol. i think they had to apologize because like every pretty much every other school has this like incredibly insane code of conduct and they violated it by tweeting that makes sense to apologize otherwise great joke you know kind of classy what i think michele bachmann was she didn't really care about it either right like she put it i'm pretty when i was into a crack nobody's going to do what i did you see but she at least had a sense of humor about it you see there was a spot where she responded like her dude's responded to go to the city and color the old lady in the shoe like that was like the really big. color in the show also she's. ok i mean you know she's a cougar she fostered out that's what happens when i got rid of what's his name and what was the guy ed rollins is that who kicked off the campaign i mean he would have never responded with the old lady. she's going to miss and let's move on to

this next one which is so ok you come home and your roommate is dead they're not breathing we don't know the reason for a death you would maybe call nine one one try taking the hospital see what's wrong with them these people decide to do something a little different take a look. young and rubinstein are accused of picking up jarrett's body and driving to several bars with the body in the back seat the post reports the night out included a stop at teddy t.'s bar and grill where jarrett's body stayed in the back seat while young rubenstein had a few drinks courtesy of gerrit's a.t.m. card a stop at sam's number three was also on the agenda before they headed back to jared's home to drop the body off. that is just so messed up now we we don't know the cause of death if they didn't kill him i'm going to feel differently about this right like if they killed them they're scumbags despicable but if they did i could imagine like being like you know a party. like man like you'd like to actually elaborate. on that he would want

and he would want to you would want it on his tab i think barry no i would look i don't think i mean like obviously this defies like metaphysical logic here but if you his spirit would want the credit card to. keep him being how to deal with no good way am i welcome to buy my you know israel my bros right now bros if anything happens to me take the card run with it because it's going to get cancer killed and i still think was a great move good job guys good job i would have done the same as well we don't know but now obviously they make themselves look a little more suspicious i'm just saying if it is likely it is their mug shot if you use his card then maybe you would look at suspicious of the more of a going to make i just need to carry my friends with me but i don't understand why they had to take him with them though i mean again like you know maybe they want to include him in the good times i don't know that you know the human heart is bottomless on one level. i guess bottom of the human heart yes yes ok we're going to wrap this up with

a wonderful set of mug shots here for you these are eight guys that were jailed for refusing to attach orange safety triangles to their buggies and i'm going to say those are probably did these are the days when i'm really really happy that mug shots are public record and they're imprisoned in. kentucky for screwing up the safety laws or apparently there's no horsing around oh i get it but on the bum. there we go there are there are no great record too because like one of the mennonites refusing to go into the draft and then you know the farmers referred refusing to go through the f.d.a. these guys are free to do the triangle's conscious of doctors all the way of awesome awesome our guys thank you so much for joining me tonight that's it for night's show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday and the meantime don't forget the fan of a lot of show on facebook either follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's show or any other night you can always catch a dollar. bill and coming up that is.

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