back now to part two of our early on the show from our washington studio. it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliant engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first i want respond to a viewer who watched our coverage of the occupy wall street movement empty dickinson's that on facebook and two party system has failed us for too long political as well as economic reform should be the main factors in the occupy wall street campaign now we've obviously spoken about the failures of the two party system many many times on this show we talked about the system's tendency to shut up dissent declare anything outside the mainstream is dangerous and fringe and the two party system which is run by big money donors also doesn't excellent job and making sure that fresh ideas and people are few and far between in the nation's

capital that's part of what occupy wall street hopes to address some of the occupy wall street movement seeks to fight back against the growing economic inequality in america and also acknowledges that our political system is very much to blame for the economic hardships facing millions of americans and an overwhelming a majority of americans actually agree aggression approval is an all time low just twelve percent happy with the current congress while people take to the streets to express their frustrations i think that it's pretty clear that our viewers right in order for something to really change in this country are going to have to address not only the economic system our system of government as well because at this point to a pretty hard to distinguish the next owners want a viewer who watched my fireside friday on bradley manning's five hundred days of confinement blade nine disease that i knew too good on you alone had to mention that many people have forgot about him living in such a terrible condition for that last five hundred days without charge by his own country now while most of the media has either ignored the plight of bradley manning or declared him to be a traitor we here on the show will continue to shine

a light on bradley manning and the obama administration's war and whistleblowers manning's treatment is something that all americans should care about because it's . symbol it's a symbol of the u.s. justice system or lack there of a more importantly it's a symbol of the lengths that the military is going to go to to silence those who speak out and finally i would respond to a kind of viewer who tweeted to us make war music set show love your show caught a couple episodes this morning keep up the good work mr rick warren thank you so much for watching and we're going to keep doing what we're doing that's of my rantings today and i will back with more as usual next week. at an era where technology is central to our way of life the threat of a computer virus so you know most people are pretty familiar with but most people outside of d.c. really contemplate the possibility of a computer virus striking the military what exactly would happen when danger room exclusively reported that a virus that infected the cockpits of u.s. predator and reaper drones was detected by the host based security system or they don't know if it was put on the drones on purpose they do think the virus is benign

so it's probably not the biggest threat to the man devices if you ask me i think the drones themselves what we do with them are the real issue here but specialists of confront the virus has infiltrated unclassified and classified machines at the creech air force base in nevada and once the mainstream media read this report they started buzzing about the sickness american air force pilots from half a world away are able to control drones that are not only surveilling but actually attacking targets virus has infected the computer systems that operate the militaries unmanned drone aircraft used on missions in afghanistan and elsewhere those computers control the unmanned drones that the military uses to fire on and attack terror targets of broad. are it's a big question now aside from why does the mainstream media ever ask about why we think it's legal to use drones all over the world is how did this happen you think that the u.s. military would have the best of the best when it comes to a strong cyber security system but according to danger room that's not necessarily

the case the security flaws are fairly common many reaper and predator drones don't encrypt. transmitted to american troops on the ground and unlike most companies the military cyber security division doesn't have a quarter per se making it more difficult to examine and determine exactly what happened and how but here here comes the icing on the cake in this story so easily it turns out that the air force cyber security specialist didn't even know about this virus you know they found out about it just like the rest of us did by reading that danger room article and unmanned and named sources scuse me within the air force operations said it was not highlighted when your article came out it was like what is thing and yeah that's actually a direct quote so i gave kidding me the pilots in nevada didn't think to war there's a period when a virus attack there killing machines talk about a communication breaks out the military is making it clear these drones are the future of our military just check out a few statistics here according to the washington post rounds of hit pakistan over

two hundred and thirty times hundred fifty drones are responsible for being the militaries in the sky in iraq and afghanistan and let's not forget a drone strike there's a sponsible for the recent death of anwar locky in yemen and those jobs are just during president obama's term alone it's not just putting a little faith in these machines it's clear that these really are america's weapon the choice for the future for better or for worse but the fact that there is such a huge communication breakdown here doesn't really make me feel that good about our future endeavors so perhaps dangerous given the air force a wake up call to get what the twenty first century stay on top of the threats to their drought. now the rhetoric surrounding the alleged terror plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the u.s. is heating up what even an f.b.i. director robert mueller described as a hollywood style script story goes like this a fifty six year old american citizen and used car salesman who also holds an iranian passport working with them being funded by elements within the iranian regime trying to hire hit men from the set as mexican drug cartel to carry out an

attack in washington d.c. and kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. but it turns out he was speaking to a da da informant in the he was arrested in september but only yesterday the justice department announced the allegedly foiled plot and charges against two men and this was no small announcement the u.s. brought out the big wigs from attorney general eric holder to secretary of state hillary clinton and even vice president joe biden who said this today. world and the moral. of the arena. that whatever action old men will use to you can where there is sure to additional sanctions some of which we've already taken nothing has been taken off the table that the world is united. now other republican lawmakers have gone even further declaring this an act of war the state department has issued a travel warning for american citizens abroad so how far could the u.s. actually go with this and how much skepticism should we have to begin with with this plot joining me from our studio in new york is national security reporter for

think progress dot org i want to thank so much thank you so much for joining us tonight and first i just want to get your take on this entire situation here i mean it very much could be a real plot but do you think that there's a little bit to be skeptical about. well thanks for having me on yeah i don't i don't think we have all the details of this the indictment was was only twenty pages it was fairly short and a lot of it was based on this informant who is somebody who started cooperating with the american authorities after they were arrested for for likely a drug crime and yeah the details are really sketchy and what doesn't and that as you say that's not to say there is no plot but we're really doesn't make sense is that it really doesn't fit the character in the usual modus operandi of iranian intelligence and special forces units and so yeah it's a bit puzzling what's going on and i hope we get some more details. and saying that it doesn't really fit the way they usually do business the fact that they had some

used card salesmen and that he was transferring large amounts of money see the american banks under f.b.i. control it just seems a little bit sloppy but i think that i think that we really have to ask here is why would this be in iran's benefit they haven't attacked the united states on u.s. soil you know nothing has happened post nine eleven why they want to do this now in washington d.c. . yet they they've never struck an attack in the u.s. as you say and and you know the saudi animosity towards iran was really laid bare by the wiki leaks revelations late last year but that was only really the specific some levels in a few quotes we all know that the saudis have really been itching to get the u.s. to to attack iran because of its nuclear program because the saudis are very much afraid of iranian hands of monic interest so that rivalry is nothing new either and then the iranians have killed people other places in the world had assassination

plots but most of the time they were against radical and other iranian dissidents who were being based abroad and causing trouble for the regime at home and it's never been the case like this where they've as explicitly gone after foreign nationals doing their diplomatic. service and especially tight security places like the u.s. and so it just doesn't make sense on a lot of levels so what do you think of the style in which you know this plot was really unveiled to us because one of these things could be something that gets passed by and you know goes over below the radar but we had attorney general eric holder come out and do a big press conference we've already had the vice president weigh in we've had secretary of state hillary clinton way and i mean they really did bring out all the big wigs and so it makes it seem like now they have to have some kind of a big response. yeah i think it's i think that's right that they might have bitten off a little more they can chew because there's not really so much you can do as far as international sanctions the u.s.

is still beholden to the international bodies and gaining widespread support there and they've had some problems with that especially after the resolution on on the no fly zone in libya got extended the russians and chinese in those sorts of countries have become really wary of of security council resolutions led by the u.s. and then and then yeah they really hyped up this this release and brought out the big guns and i think more than anything it's probably just the you know as i said if this is a real plot then there can be no doubt about the fact that it's a good thing that the obama administration prevented it from being carried out especially on american soil but at the same time i think there definitely is a political element to this where it seems pretty clear that the administration is going to run on what has actually been a really successful national security and counterterrorist rata g.'s so why not. puff up these announcements even if it's a little bit more difficult to follow through you know those those news stories

don't end up you know above the poll fold on page one so it's a little bit you know it's sort of a win win for them well i'll tell you why maybe you should be getting these things mean you know for starters we've covered many stories on this show where these could be possible cases. of entrapment and at the same time because now we have republican lawmakers and you wrote about this yourself today saying that this is a declaration of war and we've already we see this all the time right with john mccain with john bull with lindsey graham saying bomb bomb bomb away and you know i think that the american public does often give in to their emotions and we saw the same thing with iraq when we were sold a war based on lies of weapons of mass destruction so i really would like to see some truth here you know rather than just blowing steam up there but. right i mean if this is concocted which i have no evidence to suspect it is but if it is i think it really is a travesty in that sense that. there's no doubt that this is a further deterioration you know further down into the depths of the u.s.

iran relationship over the past three decades and and i think it it really has given a lot of fodder to washington's war hawks which are legion to push sometimes explicitly for military strikes we had a major mainstream conservative think tank in washington the heritage foundation my colleague eli clifton wrote about it they they called for a proportional military response against iranian targets today and so you have everything from those calls to the calls of people like like senator mark kirk from illinois who while he said that we shouldn't react militarily to this he did use it as a means to try and promote his new iran sanctions against iran which are aimed at the central bank with the explicit purpose that the sanctions are designed to cripple and collapse iran's currency and bring economic hardship on to ordinary iranians and he said today he was asked on the interview last night about it on the radio i just read about this on think progress today he was asked if these sanctions

targeting iran or take food off the plates of ordinary iranians and he said that he thinks it's ok to take food off the plates of ordinary iranians that do they whose governments planned bombings on u.s. soil and so i think that there's no doubt that that this is pushing forward efforts of people that really want to her ordinary iranians who are already embattled enough under their own government as well as potentially pushing the u.s. closer to a confrontation from iran which. experts universally agree will be a pretty disastrous scenario both ways and that will have a at the end it's not something that we need and you know i definitely think there needs to be some careful treading here i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight. thanks very much for having me on it's a pleasure. also the commies an unpopular governor now is going out for students who want liberal arts to convince one are told i'm cycling and had happy our police bust a mobiles first class plus michele bachmann strange take on the nine nine nine plan

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a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the. street they have. been canceling the chance to use it to get books for exactly the status of the human experiment it's sitting well with. business run news on which it was allegedly trying to make sense of global economy and it's all changed things as financial template for the reason he's planning to maintain all confidence in long kids and i think you don't want to be seen trade imbalances recession v.p. nations close to collapsing in some plain loan food. to fail sleep late sick and beautiful like you see us crash and seven. sitting. in a church isn't in st the spokesman just programs increase the total economy.

i decided tonight's tool time of war and tonight goes to florida governor rick scott to the republican just took office this year but he's not very well liked by florida residents who voted him into office he currently has a thirty seven percent approval rating and that's the highest of his governorship and just a few months in office he had the honor of tossing the first page of the gang the spring training game and he didn't really get a very well or welcome from flirting floridians. the old the old out now besides being booed scott has faced criticism after criticism for his handling of state issues he was a wall during a weekend of major wildfires across the state in june turns out he was at a secret treat with the koch brothers he also signed into law a bill that required all welfare recipients to pass a drug test and that's actually cost the state money because virtually no one

seeking help was on drugs but the state had to pay for the testing now rick scott has also slashed major funding for education in florida. rick scott has just announced his new budget in florida it takes more than one point seven billion dollars out of the public schools and instead of putting that money back into the budget the budget gives it away in corporate and property tax breaks so k. through twelve education gets absolutely events are rated in the state of florida. that's right more tax cuts for corporations but since he's dismantled k. through twelve programs or appears that rick scott is now going after higher education as well see this week his side of the state shouldn't be spending money on all those liberal arts degrees he said this is a quote i got accused of not liking anthropologists the other day but think about it how many more jobs do you think there are for anthropologists in this state now rick went on to say do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs in anthropology i don't i want to make sure that we spend our

dollars where people can get jobs when they get out now it's got a little further the discussion saying the who wants to shift more funding to colleges that offer degrees in science technology engineering and math he wants to create a new silicon valley in florida rick scott is basically saying screw you to students who are liberal arts degrees he wants to colleges to offer free market friendly majors basically rick scott doesn't like the liberal arts classes degrees because they educate people on social issues but guess what they also give you critical thinking skills analytical skills things that might come in handy in the workplace but you know i guess that those majors don't fit in with his tea party conservative viewpoints do we need science technology engineering math majors as well of course we do we don't just cut liberal arts out how dare a college offer insight into the world how dare they teach are used to think outside of the box be creative when news flash covers got one of the things that supposed to make america special the we allow our children to explore new ideas new ways of thinking you know that little world that every politician throws around

innovation in liberal arts degrees they help encourage that so far as opposition to thinking outside the box or giving florida governor republican governor tonight's tool time award. our guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our key correspondent christine for south. evan mcmorris santoro reporter and blogger for talking points memo thanks for joining guys oh all right so we said we wouldn't do to debate stuff during happy hour because we already did a bunch of debates earlier on in the show but michele bachmann you know what we call earlier this year she was the gift that keeps on giving so we have to play a little clip of what she thinks about herman cain's nine nine nine plan. when you take the nine nine nine plan and you turn it upside down i think the devil's in the

details. i know i just love that one so i mean she directs me a year or so right she's the gift that keeps on giving but michele bachmann is also somebody who realize who realizes that she's not really making her face known anymore the interviews have stopped she's not out there as much so she has to come up with these clever little phrases to make sure that she gets on the show and as many others as possible i think you i think it was a cute gesture it's a little strange to talk about the devil out or a public candidate is throwing us a badly i mean this is especially a jesus loving god fearing woman to do that but i think she's desperate right i guess that's all she has left right is the conservative social crowd and it was just you know a lot about the devil what about you know christianity i think is ample of how we know these candidates read what goes on on twitter because on twitter throughout this whole nine nine nine plan has been so many jokes about six six six and it's very true literally that someone of her they follow the tweets this is the we're

learning about this campaign they fall between all of it to me i don't know if you know this but earlier this week we learned that apparently the rick perry campaign watches the ilona show because they put us into their new ad attacking mitt romney . that's a big step in regulation which really kind of cracks me up because we're i don't know why they would be watching our show because they don't like. ok let's move on also do something so we've been doing a lot of occupy wall street coverage we've seen the people as well that we're on wall street sipping champagne overlooking the people and so now here's another clip from some of these we are the one percent take a look. and getting a bunch of of ridiculous people here together with no real goal is is is is frankly idiotic we worked hard to get where we are and it seems like a lot of people are down here whining that they don't have the wealth that we have and this is america this is capitalism kind of sounds like this protest is it's un-american. all right so i don't feel like a bad joke looks kind of just let it is was that it was hoping. actually say that

it's hard to figure that you see things that are ahead of the says on the show every single day exam or they just get some young hot guy to say it and like that it's normal well that's my thing is watching this guy who says well i should be happy to have my nice apartment and my second apartment this guy how long hair he doesn't look like a guy and i could be totally off base here it doesn't look like a guy that actually works on wall street i think it's probably a joke even if it's not you're right he's repeating what it sounds like bigotry against her legs but i think people care of long hair and be very but i understand this is america california where the people with long hair are usually the people that are real estate agents and part time servers you know they're really that big tree over out of my richer friends have shorter than me they have less hair than me though because i you know i try to keep it less stress in my life exactly exam i mean hang on to it well looks can be deceiving you know looks can be deceiving there's i look at a guy. like first i need to do anything. but you know i just think that some of

them are like psychopaths killing people in the background i don't know or maybe they really are just defending their wealth it's true or there are well they're here they're wealth and they're. ok. so you know this story about a mobile strip club. you know around the. this is this a little. little boy. why are they years. oh my goodness so the booty lounge was part of their store and now you are in detroit and when the lines play the bear is basically police had to look at it they were belies the it operated illegally as a strip club for reveling in it i mean having scott it's too bad it wasn't your idea because i think it's a good one i think it's an entrepreneur only idea that we haven't seen yet really

and i mean i was i'm working. the story right now about the food trucks in d.c. these are there's eighty of them right now everything you want mac and cheese cupcakes grilled cheese anything but the food trucks have to follow the rules in terms of health standards they get checked out by the health department on almost a weekly basis so i think that if mobile strip club wants to function. make sure they got very very good example. in america guys can go the strip club you know a good one shouldn't get out of their office they don't have to tell their wives will never find out something you really are you i mean i thought about this the way i felt about that underground bunker but keep the food truck and the truck separate but just keep those two things separate i think yes yes one hundred percent ok we'll need them both fill out of here only one for both trucks yes let them pass the bags and don't let them exist ok last story that we have here this is just an if you want to call it karma whatever takeaway. they detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle they asked him to step out when he

did say he was unsteady on his speech almost fell down several times and had slurred speech as was. he told officers he had two drinks and did agree to a field sobriety tests now while searching his issue be all of us to say they found a loaded smith and wesson thirty year special handgun queen the driver's seat and the civil council. all right so this is representative curry todd a lawmaker in tennessee and he was one of the main people that was pushing for this legislation for you to be allowed to have your guns in your bars are going to do that maybe then don't get arrested for getting a dui why with your gun on you because then you're taking a look like everyone's going to go around driving drunk and shooting up a down or you know what they say you know for authors you know write what you know well the same thing goes for making laws i mean this guy was you know it's a lot about drinking and carrying a gun so that's the kind of law that he writes i mean i think this may i think it

makes sense to me. i don't know what to say i mean there are guns in bars and i guess everyone's going to have their own opinion but it does go to show that this is somebody who loves his gun and loves drinking problems and i love my god i'm very good and i love america every day what is what they're what the stripper bus route that's it rivera on her i got a rabbit out of a thank you so much for joining me tonight at seven nights out thanks for tuning in thanks for the come back tomorrow mike riggs from reason is going to join us for happy hour on the meantime got to get some from a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's or any other night of my stash into flash steal our fellow you'll find the interviews as well as the show in its entirety and coming up next is the. world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realm plus.

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