the. cheesemonger. chris christie will not run for president the american college student amanda knox is on a plane right now suspense almost over now for millions of hardball with prayer and there you have it mainstream media are getting news of the day and american girl released from an italian jail someone not running for president and yet another i phone but wait a second where are the reports on this. a movement sweeping from seize his signing see occupy wall street takes over new york los angeles and many places in between sell is the average joe finally saying it is

enough when it comes to corporate capitalism. this is a true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have a lot to offer and she's not the only one standing up to wall street we've got the older the younger the richer the poor are all uniting to fight for change and despite crackdowns by police this movement isn't stepping down i'll talk to one woman arrested at brooklyn bridge showdown over the weekend. and there it's tuesday october fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out here watching our city. all right before we get started this evening i want to talk about something i really shouldn't be shocked about but i still am driving the day today dominating the airways on the mainstream media three stories that were given so much time and attention you think nothing else in

the world was even going on three stories that in so many ways are better we are news stories at least not breaking news take a look. breaking news right here on amazon received word that new jersey governor chris christie will not run for president christie will not run chris christie will not run for president several republican candidates breathing a big sigh of relief for the other huge you're going to i mean arriving back on u.s. soil american college student amanda knox is on a plane right now she will likely stay at her mother's hold in west seattle and begin what she calls winning back her happiness suspense almost over now for millions of i phone fans hard core applegate's claim the new device is faster and cheaper like it to drop all right so i'm an ox was on a plane she was behind bars for four years pretty american girl fried italian courts battle all about this one not the case of michael morton a texas man in

prison for twenty five years in the beating death of his wife after new d.n.a. evidence linked another man to the crime the d.n.a. evidence the district attorney refused to turn over or if you want to be a fast with court cases what about more on the case of a fourteen year old boy wrongly executed. it was more than sixty years ago this was the youngest person ever executed in the country. well looking a little more into the failures of our system. so chris christie i lost count how many times he said he wasn't going to run take a look. somewhere down around you know not going to happen is still saying categorically not running number twelve i'm not running i'm a hundred percent certain about the well i don't want to run i don't feel like you're ready to run first elected in your heart you got a lot more than anything else or even a lot of it was and it's not like he actually did leave the door open to changing

his mind but i guess if enough people with mouthpieces still want you to run and they tell you enough times there's a chance then it becomes a news story my only question is how long we will have to wait until the media speculation begins yet again that you know maybe he'll change his mind on the i phone well i like the i phone i'm in the market for a new phone so this is a story i was interested in but there have to be one of the biggest stories of the day tech is that we got our hands on a confidential internal e-mail circulated around the web programming office of the boston paper it said the i phone five is happening in order to get as many page views a top of what we've put in the word i phone in the title of every story you write whether or not it's relevant we'll be counting your pulse at the end of the day really all right let's go to some real news let's go to wall street where for the third week massive protests are taking place started by people who say they want those responsible for the economic collapse to be held accountable they're trying

their fingers and or signs at big banks the debt big bankers and those who continue to make money well the large majority of people are struggling these are people who in large part of the mainstream media have either ignored ridiculed or marginalized there's plenty of theories about just who these people are and we want to find out for ourselves some r.c. going to stuff your church in a spent time with the protesters find out about them. they have been accused of not having a unified message the same kind of the messages look old media because they're drawn from all walks of life brought together by anger and frustration at the direction their country is sad because of all the users rated on a policy that i've been trying to change for years to just write. this story the lower press people. are going to. be organized

rain or shine to the personal stories of the protesters that have kept them out on the streets to review the demonstrations and the deeper the occupation it was. sixty seven year old leonard she caught came all the way from california leaving behind a ninety seven year old mother the retired home financing specialist worries about the future generation i have enough money to survive my lifetime so i don't have a problem but. my great grand kids. or grandkids it's. just too hard for me to make it these protesters have largely been presented by the media as hippy anarchist teens this marching eighty nine year old retired teacher would beg to differ ross went oh my god now that what they do to the american people to us to stand completely

corrupt completely responsible would win mash the recession that we have the real art student is here with his three year old daughter emma i want to bring my daughter because i would like for her. even idea of what it is to be politically active she says protesters issues with the system may differ but if you're fed up this is where you need to be their issues all come down to one thing and one well obviously to disband the. it's very difficult to get any new laws for any kind of issue that is the interests of the ninety nine percent of people who are going around saying. that you know i mean that's a tough economic reality pennsylvania couple dawn and messiahs absolute total to their outdoor beds to see cozy soft off by an american flag i left my job i left my home i left my family i left my job. because i think this is a very very important cause this is a true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have

a lot to offer it's not just passion but knowledge that led them to the protest the consul's friend anna spends her time researching the global and american financial system she drove twenty hours to get to wall street from iowa this is the bottom most polls and the so much corruption there is. exploiting a famous film we're mad as hell and i'm going to be. honest found out about the protests into the action at that moment they don't to me that mass media is not covering it at all two weeks later the media has paid some attention but as the demonstrators are presented as young slackers what's one thing that hippies like most that drugs those who are ready to real change are growing more diverse by the day. this is true cannot archie. you know there are so many things to say about what's happening down wall street so many different kinds of people they're there for different reasons but with a foundation that seems to be more and more firm so media coverage of the

protesters often makes them out to be dirty hippies with no focus or even more take a look. i just think there's a distinction here these people are not like the party yours are not law abiding citizens there has been a park where fifteen years in a while they're breaking the laws on the brooklyn bridge that's not the party behavior that's not america loving behavior so i was curious to hear how some of the protesters feel about this so earlier i spoke to someone that occupied wall street herself and was out front and center on the brooklyn bridge over the weekend protester katie small convert i asked her thoughts on a fox news guest accusations that the occupy wall street protesters are not law abiding citizens i think it's kind of a joke i mean these people are giving up their their their livelihoods to exercise their rights and you know the whole thing about the square being publicly privately owned public space it's such

a mess but you know you can't even begin to tell anyone to get off the property. because people are exercising their rights i think is the most important thing going on right give me your story katie we always like to hear. you know everyone is a little different from what i understand you have a job and you've been coming down you know after work on the weekend what's your story and what are you seeing out there. well yeah you're right i have a job right now i'm a financial designer and so every day after work i go down and i hang out with people in the plaza and i've been working with some people down there and then you know attending the general assemblies and getting involved that way and then going home going to bed going horton doing it all over again and i've been to some of the marches i've been arrested twice now. and i was on the bridge this weekend and it's funny people say oh what was worse was you know getting pepper sprayed and arrested

unlawfully the other weekend worst and sitting out in the rain and getting shuttled out to east new york to discuss in jail cell what was worse you know and it's so well they're both great. you know because it just shows that we have so much power that we talk to another guest a couple hours ago who was also arrested at the brooklyn bridge and said you know there wasn't a feeling of despair after the arrest there was a feeling of cohesion more strength and more coming together is this what you witnessed also. absolutely absolutely you know it took a long time to arrest all seven hundred of us or however many that were so we wound up standing in the rain under a net of brownlow's and singing together and using the people's might you know the call and response tactic to talk to each other and once we got through

ourselves people were singing together and laughing and when we got out we were greeted by people who were clapping and cheering and hugging us and giving us advice on legal information and i've heard that from all of my friends that were arrested that went to different precincts that day so it's actually pretty exciting. you know. it's not it's not that bad press that i did i know that one of the i mean i do it again one of the major criticisms from the protesters down on wall street and in essence from these protests across the country is the relationship between you know wall street the corporations and also politician you know washington and wall street that the relationship of the wall street to close knit i want to play something for you that shows that a politician senator bernie sanders who is actually very much in support of what you and others have been doing and get your reaction it was scrooge greed and

recklessness caused this recession that led to so many people losing their drugs it had an excessive risk taking on wall street had a lot to do with it and so did some failures on the part of regulators. so this is senator bernie sanders sanders questioning chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke they go into a little more and you know he asks ben bernanke he have these issues been fixed renee he says for the most part yes and center says you know all right i respectfully disagree what is your beef you know that you have with what's gone on over the past few years with last three. well i think you know obviously. the. the lack of legislation and. over over you know the banks and volved and private lending and involved and. public lending whatever you know there's been

a lot of. lack of regulation and also in conjunction with. the is the corporate personhood that we have been fighting against sense to beginning of time it seems like in this country but you know a lot of cream court case citizens united right right last year right right last year which allows corporations to fund any political campaigns to as much as they want. so it's really becoming a major problem and it's not going to get fixed and told that supreme court legislation gets repealed today i heard an interesting quote yesterday i was at the take back the american dream conference and robert rice was speaking and he said you know all believe a corporation is a person when texas and georgia start executing corporations really kind of an interesting statement since last question for you

a lot of big things happened for it's maher scheduled to happen for tomorrow what are you hearing in terms of how this movement will take shape and evolve in the coming days. i'm not exactly sure how it's going to take form that the unions are kind of joining up with what's going on because the unions have by far and away many more people than we do but they are a huge portion of our country and i know tomorrow there's going to be a large march down i think it's from city hall to st and it's four thirty you think scheduled and i personally am going to be taking off work early to be a part of it. i don't know we'll see what happens but there are a huge part of our country and so they have to be included in the equation we'll see what happens and i was occupy wall street protester katie falkenberg. all the cycling on for more than two weeks there have been spotty coverage of these

protests even though many say this is the start of a tea party on the left some even calling it the answer to the arab spring here at home the american autumn but it wasn't until those arrests on the brooklyn bridge over the weekend of seven hundred people that many people evil during that these protests were happening so i want to talk about the media aspect of all this as well as the potential shift in energy and help me do that i spoke earlier to kristen grant a writer for alter net she was one of the seven hundred who were arrested and she weighed in to give me her take on the movement itself and how it's evolving it was just an incredible feeling to be part of thousands of people taking over a public space as monumental as the brooklyn bridge and to put a face on the movement. by taking over the bridge it was just explaining to the public this is what we're doing we are the public we are the ninety nine percent and we're taking back what's ours i know what it was incredible to see.

it was just incredible to see the sense of pride and courage that it took to deliver such a strong message and we accomplished that absolutely i know one of the big controversies is the way that police have handled this i know the first major incident that raised eyebrows was of course those young women being pepper sprayed by police and we had we had some of those young women on our show last week but then we see literally hundreds of people some who say police actually scored them on to the bridge only to then be arrested and yet then n.y.p.d. released a video that i want to play for our viewers and then we can talk about it. hard to sort of understand there were police wanted people to know that in fact they had a megaphone they warned every single person who went on the bridge all seven

hundred protestors that they would be arrested if you were there i wasn't it give me your take on do you think that everyone knew that if they stepped onto that bridge they would be arrested. absolutely i mean megaphones are nothing compared to thousands of people chanting together there was a point when we did pass a police officer with a megaphone and i could not hear anything coming from it i knew in fact that if you took the car route on the bridge there was a chance you would be arrested but only because i heard another protester shouting it out to people i am sure that most people did not hear him or the police and had no idea that they would be arrested if they did if they went that way and in fact that's where most people were going and there was also a suspiciously low number of police and the ones who i did see weren't saying anything i actually walked next to a cop for about ten minutes down the bridge and he did not signal to anyone that they might be arrested or even say a word what's it going to take for this movement it's already been going on more than two weeks what will it take for all the cable networks to make this their lead

story. i think that as it grows they will have no choice but to report on it as there are march is that with thousands of people taking place all over the country to ignore this story will be pretty difficult because people will see it in their towns and i also think that as the unions join. it will kind of change the characteristic of the movement and people will say less that their dirty hippies are an artist and more of that these are working people fighting for fair wages and their right to have a job and that was christian when a writer or alternate and let's talk more about ways in which the occupy wall street movement is picking up steam now of course it started in new york on wall street but this is a movement migrating across the country even to the other side of the here's a look at these cities in the u.s. that have joined forces with the movement all of these red states are states that have had protests in some way shape or form in some city or multiple cities in the

states people wanting to spread the same message to the wealthiest and most elite people in this country and you may not know this it's also being ground internationally take a look at all these different places the protests have taken place either in support of or income groups with the occupy wall street protests from australia to china mexico japan a lot of different places this is not just the u.s. where this is happening but we do want to show you more inside the u.s. and so we sent our teams ramon go in there out to take a look at some of these and on wall street the wall street demonstrations. we don't want that not just creating more pain or suffering more corruption and i think people are taking it. more than a thousand people in los angeles. chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the day visible center of

government in power i'm going to miss traitors worry that the one percent who control most of the nation's wealth have been the stranglehold over the u.s. government alexander hamilton you know refer to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace and the great peace as a way people of all walks of life have turned out for this mass ministry seen here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of the revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective agere is unifying people. in the windy city okupe has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank of chicago for more

than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district means occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed forty four seven. despite dozens of arrests demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have also been marching in denver and san francisco demanding radical change from a one to a limpia to omaha to orlando according to the occupy together web site. protests are being organized in more than one hundred cities standing behind our work their revolution i believe their time is that they think that. the world is not. just but mainstream media down even really killing the supporters that the message will be. so what happened in london they tried to make. people who were just. you know

that's. something is wrong already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now. their belts maybe many americans finally find their voices but crossing the beginning bigger it looks like spreading throughout the country and you know they had an arab spring you know hopefully never us in los angeles. r t and for more than two weeks our tea has been on the ground showing you pictures from the front lines of this movement perhaps some of the strongest pictures though came from over the weekend video of more than seven hundred people getting arrested on the brooklyn bridge now as far as the latest in lower manhattan a lot of the today has been spent preparing for what is expected to be a major day tomorrow with labor groups and now think they too will join the protests also hearing rumors of

a nationwide student walkout set for noon but this evening well known economist spoke at the occupy wall street protests and that is richard roth host of the economic. a i ninety nine point five f.m. radio before he headed over there he spent a few minutes with us here talking about the protests and the problems and so much more and he told me what he hoped to inspire by his speech. what i'm going to try to do is to make these young people and the older people with them aware that it really is historic they are expressing something that's been building in the united states for thirty years if mark longer a country that was once relatively equal in its distribution of wealth and income has become much more on equal and with it has gone destruction of our environment a corruption of our politics and what you're seeing now is a culmination of a build up of a long time that's why it's here that's why it's staying and i want them to feel

the full force of the legitimacy of what they're doing and the desire to change this country because in the minds of a clear majority of this country's people i think it's an important point you bring up and i do want to take us a little broader and i don't think astray from something that you wrote about your top tier getting today that you know so many people take such pride in questioning challenging and criticizing things like health care education and transportation and yet we have failed to similarly question challenge or criticize our economic system otherwise known as capitalism and i don't know why you think this subject has been sell off limits. well you know we take a justifiable pride in questioning our institutions as a way to make them better we should have been doing that for the last fifty years with our economic system this is not its first failure this is not its first crisis but because of the cold war it became impossible to question the economic system

you either had to be a cheerleader or a celebrator of this system or you were considered somehow traitorous or disloyal and all that happened was that capitalism got a free pass it could be generate the way it has into the kind of corruption and the kind of inequality and injustice we're now seeing being protested so i think what these young people are doing and what the older folks with them are saying is it's time to get back and do what reasonable people ought to do question their economic system capitalism see if it needs to be changed see if we can do better and then move in that direction and no longer allow the voices of repression and conservatism to prevent us from making this a society that's better equipped to meet our needs that is now the case you just average or that you blame i in cart when in the cold war for this sort of changing dynamic i know that whenever crack capitalism is criticized the cries of socialism

often follow the word socialist still in some ways a bad word you know and i'm wondering if you have an idea how does business as war chef there is in terms of talking about capitalism in a way that really ways are today. well i think that what you have is a kind of kneejerk reaction it is not working very well the more i go around the country the more i see that the cry of socialism kind of falls on deaf ears for the older people they've heard it so often they know that it's just rhetoric for the younger people they are led to ask the question if socialism is the big scary alternative to capitalism and if capitalism is not the liberal in the goods then maybe i ought to learn a little bit more about this socialism and maybe i ought to ask some questions so the irony is the conservatives screaming socialism are actually feeding a growing interest in what socialism is and then leading to the discovery that

there are as many varieties of socialism as ever there were of capitalism and dismissing all of them is a sign of ignorance and not a sign of an intellectual activity and openness to trying to make the world better i mean i think that might be true richard in terms of the vast majority of level headed people thank you no maybe i do need to read understand socialism vs capitalism versus communist and who knows what and however it still when you turn on a lot of the mainstream media they they have their talking points they have their short found bike and still fertile isn't is seen as a bad word. yes but again i am really quite confident that that is fading in the united states that more and more the system we actually have is clearly not working for the majority of people the more they will associate all of the arguments why do you keep it's none the less to not question it those are going to be more and more

thin and more and more a question that's already happening that's why this rally got growing that's why it's growing that's why it endures despite the media we took relationship to it the police relationship to it this is the build up of a generation of people who realize that they should look for alternatives to capitalism and socialism is one of those that are worthy of their attention i don't think a lot of badmouthing is going to change the impact of the real world on people's consciousness now is richard roth economist and host of economic update and so he would be a i ninety nine point five s. and radio now that is going to do it for this evening but for more on the stories we covered for our last usa or you tube dot com last r.t. america can also follow me on twitter on our franzi and christine for. you.