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artists i visited schools i'm awarding tonight it goes to the pizza business mentor and want to be a politician is the current g.o.p. presidential front runner for the twenty twelve nomination that would call a real front runner is more like the flavor of the month just like michele bachmann and rick perry were before him and it's actually kind of easy to understand why some people would like a we've got the really catching not. so simple and he's actually pretty funny and charming and everybody loves a charmer but all sense of humor is refreshing in a presidential candidate he can't let it fool you and he will actually listen to this man answers on some questions he really does not know what he's talking about specially when it comes to foreign policy and i could not have been more apparent after this little comment. i'm ready for the gotcha questions and they are going to start in the car and when they ask me who's the president of the bacon the big debate in stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know you know i mean i'm going to say is that going to create one job now of course late night comedians

media like had a field day with is basically begging begging back to stand stand comment even secretary of state hillary clinton had a little fun at herman expense while she was in afghanistan which unfortunately probably only helped his cause republican voters. oh. it's time to. get serious and godfathers. good. artists use. you know the names of votes for the troops you know might start the day over the summer sleep. i really think a few things very clear here honey karzai is the president of afghanistan that's one of those stand countries and i think that's one of them you're probably going to want to know a little more about considering you said you plan on keeping troops there for a while if elected but any republican candidate can say they think troops should

stay and still get away or pretending like they know what's going on you just say the words fighting terrorism al qaida freedom and the base is going to forget all about the fact that their men and women are dying in a war that's unwinnable but now that herman is the front runner in the republican field he's going to have to answer some more expansive more complicated questions about his foreign policy views so apparently he's decided to go to school listen and answer some softball questions last night from sean hannity on fox news. do you think i'm dumb enough not to study only i've been studied up all these issues for months i can now explain write a return to either report or better than very on the stand right return because you know you get caught offguard you go to school when you learn. herman cain has been brushing up on his foreign policy credentials for months how noble of him after all he's only been running for an entire year i'm going to go on a limb here and say that it's time running for president the united states you should probably have a pretty firm grasp on foreign policy before you declare brushing up for

a few months during the campaign it's probably not going to do it now as part of its crash course in world politics the daily caller points that cain gets a one page daily summary of world events from his advisors one page there are knock yourself out here and now he even gone so far as to hire a team of people to advise him on foreign policy sure sign that he is getting serious about the whole presidential race josh rogin over far foreign policy magazine take a look at his team valerie pretty much falls in line with perry and romney supporting israel their greatest ally he is also a very strong advocate for maintaining defense spending surprise surprise he also said he would continue to work with allies that support u.s. policy and cut funding for countries that don't support u.s. policy so for now all we know is that cain has assembled a pretty standard g.o.p. foreign policy team with pretty standard g.o.p. views and we don't know whole lot more than that i know a little bit scary and in fact the man who's leading the poll is a literally learning about foreign policy as he goes on campaigning for

a group of hawkish advisors that's not making me feel any better so for spending only a few months studying foreign policy we're giving herman cain tonight's tool time award. this time. the wind will come down. carriers will be singing. all right so tonight we've got a glimmer of hope and it deals with the big banks and somewhat surprise. move j.p. morgan chase citi group u.s. bank p. and c. and bank of all decided that they are not going to charge you a monthly fee to use your debit card j.p. morgan chase started testing a three dollar fee in parts of wisconsin and georgia in february but after a backlash from customers the bank scrapped plans to roll out the feet of the rest of the u.s. looks like these banks decided for once to listen to customers unlike bank of america here remember back in september the charlotte based bank announced it will start charging a five dollar a month debit card fee starting next year so that's sixty dollars a year to use your own money the decision led to an outcry amongst consumers

including an online petition they gathered one hundred fifty three thousand signatures from irate customers i think it might be of a says these things are needed because of new regulations imposed by congress and the dodd frank reform bill and the c.e.o. of the bank dodged reporters for a week after the announcement which turned into a little bit of a p.r. nightmare. for nearly a week we tracked down blank sheet you know and washington what did you give us a couple questions for sure who finally allowed us to ask you a few questions about that sixty three years if you just think america need that money. to stay on. the fuse which we can grow the creatures. with it for free for the first reason because we're there for relationship to the speed that. angry bank of america customers even shut down the bank website for a few days after that announcement so i think it's safe to say the customers are still pissed and they should be in two thousand and eight b.

of a received twenty five billion dollars in capital from the tarp plans just a year later b. of a came back for twenty billion more government money after receiving up forty five billion dollars in the taxpayers reporting six point two billion in profits in the last quarter this is how the baker pays the taxpayers say there are seems like they're really struggling here and bank of america fee was such a disaster that even comedian and talk show host generous a little fun at the banks expense. we want to hear your feedback so if you'd like to complain about the new five dollar service charge call the number on your screen it's five dollars for the first minute. issue and it automatically from your account. and thank you america would like to remind you that if you want to use your a.t.m. card it's still free to come into any branch and use one of our tellers however if you want to leave it six dollars. to one can only hold the bank of america is going to retreat on their absurd five dollar fee now the other banks are saying they're

not going to charge their customers so if they don't have it big deal the pay don't have to charge because of all those overbearing regulations they want to be a very close and i we do have a true glimmer of hope thanks j.p. morgan chase citi group u.s. bank p. and c. and who are the right thing by their customers at least in an itty bitty tiny way by not charging them to use their own money perhaps the message of occupy wall street finally started to be heard. now here on the show we constantly talk about the government's expanding reach and abilities when it comes to monitoring just about everything whether it be through legislation that strongly relaxes rules on the need for warrants or secret gag orders that for social media companies to hand over users' private info but it's time to think about how this applies to journalists and their abilities to keep their confidential sources safe and opt out of the new york times christopher sigmoid argues that american journalists should assume that their communications are being monitored by their governments and possibly other governments as well and the safety of anonymous sources is going to depend not only on journalist i think's built but on their computer skills as well

and that for now we might be a safer bet than any journalist out there let's find out more and how to change that this is me is christopher single and fellow at the open society foundations and a doctoral candidate at security in from out of indiana university christopher thank you so much for being here tonight thanks for being about ok so you say that we have to assume that the government is monitoring communications if you're a journalist is that everything in terms of your text messages your phone calls e-mails even your skype conversations you might have this doesn't mean the government is monitoring you in real time you know all the time what it means though is that if you ever do anything that the government decides that they find interesting they can get it they can get it by using the services provided by free company provided free by companies like google facebook twitter that are routinely saving this information by default we're sort of leaving this digital data trail behind and so when the government decides after the fact that you know they think you've done something interesting or they think you've spoken to a whistleblower they just call up the companies for the information and suddenly

they know who the whistleblower is without ever forcing you to reveal it do you think the government is becoming more aggressive in that sense in terms of going after people going after whistleblowers trying to find their sources if you look at the case of james rising recently or obviously their reaction to wiki leaks we know that just from information's been published this government this administration has been far more vigorous in going after whistleblowers than any previous administration so this is. you know normally you would think of the republicans as being in a really anti this is going but president obama's has really. not know the whole story held anybody's back from going up to these guys. really what this means is if you are a journalist and you're contacting sort of whistleblowers inside the administration or or anywhere you need to protect this information because the government will get it eventually and depends i guess what's being put out there because we see you know we see the new york times we see many of the major publications in this country leak information all the time that they get from white house officials senior white house officials but it all depends on whether they want that

information to be leaked to the public or not but so what do you suggest that we do in terms of changing that you know you mentioned of course that if somebody is studying journalism in school or they don't have a computer security class brits or journalism schools definite need to be taking the initiative and teaching their students computer security skills now most universities have a computer science department does it seem like a perfect marriage bring some computer science professors over have them teach the journalism students you know maybe that you can even pos and journalism professors about the computer science department teach them how to blog but news organizations also need to take responsibility and protect their information for people who have already been through journalism school your organization for example all of your software seems to use g. mail and i want to communicate with me maybe you should be hosting your own e-mail service so that google one hundred where you're doing your video or speakers on t.v. or. you know me g. mail something that you know that i think a lot of people use or a lot of people use their personal e-mails and so you know what about organizations

now that have been trying to implement their own a wiki leaks style. things like the wall street journal there's a both the wall street journal and al-jazeera english both set up their own wiki leaks style platforms to encourage leakers when the wall street journal said there was a they had some initial stumbling they chose the correct encryption algorithms that were vulnerable to certain forms of interception and on their terms of service basically said that they could. over your information to the government really whenever the government asks for it those organizations receive criticism legitimate criticism and they've sort of learned from that but really what this tells you is that news organizations at least right now are not really equipped to be setting up these sites they don't have trained information security experts and house right they focus on what they're good at which is digging up dirt and publishing it but they really really need to go out and acquire this additional expertise because their information their sources simply are not safe right now so in the meantime though you think that wiki leaks is probably the safest place for somebody to leap aaron formation for a source to go through and whatever you think of us on it and people really do have

different opinions about him he is a computer scientist he's a trained computer security expert and he and his volunteers have really built this stellar apart form for anonymous leaking no one no sources all of wiki leaks have been revealed based on anything that we think says not and in fact they still don't know what the redacted state department put out they say that what way he has had is a problem is their vulnerability in terms of the personal relationships people have left the organization and then try to hurt wiki leaks has protected its own sources the information that's come in has clearly leaked like i said once it's there but the infrastructure that they've set up has been put in place such that they don't know who's leaking things to them and they still don't know if manning was the person providing them with the cables they have built a system that provides zero information other than the documents that come in the door christiane thank you so much for joining us tonight and i think that's something that journalists and news organizations definitely need to start thinking more about i guess just i think i have right now because i'll be

a little upset thank you. we have to actually have our fireside friday and then happy hour couples monopoly game and then bloodshed. garden ad it says the obama supporters the followers of islam welcome back i'm just not. into that only. people. i have a right to know what my government would want to know why i think taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. a story. you think you understand it.

and realize everything. is a big. blow to the capitol. hill police corruption.

nobody seems to know. that never ever sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic me. to tonight's fireside your. thoughts. this week raised a lot of questions about the direction in which this country is headed and a focal point from which to try and draw some answers come to conclusions or just hope or fear for what the future might bring was oakland california now we reported to you all week on clashes between protesters of the occupy movement and the police in the area and it wasn't just one police force or one department and you see on monday night or even more accurately very early tuesday morning hundreds of police

from ten different agencies came out and they came to clear out the occupiers and they did so with force with flash grenades with tear gas and with rubber bullets on the crowds came back the next day the police used force again more flash grenades and more tear gas and more arrests and the second night that resulted in iraq war veteran twenty four year old marine named scott olsen being hit in the head with a tear gas canister a close range of the third day when thousands of people came out to take the plaza in front of open city hall that united by olson's tragedy they want the police back off the occupiers took back the plaza and at that point the whole country people around the world including those that scott served with in iraq are watching now it's hard it's not that victory is just a battle on that date or whether this represents a significant shift in the way the authorities the way the political leaders are going to start to respond already oakland's mayor jean quan is trying to play both sides first supporting the actions of the police then supporting the occupiers then only sending a recorded message after promising to come by the general assembly in person to

hear the people's concerns and then visiting scott olsen in the hospital to show that she cared we see at the root of the issue here is something much bigger than just these last few days in oakland after all the occupy movement is in cities all across the country those in zuccotti park is still the original occupiers the closest to wall street the cross of power that they see as the most corrupt but oakland as are mind does of. just how far removed average americans are from those who influence our country the ones that pay our politicians the ones that lock down the halls of congress oakland has reminded us of just how scared the elites are of the people and of people power and how far they'll go to try and suppress it you tell me and the police in oakland california really need their own tanks and they need to don riot gear pelt rubber bullets waves of tear gas of people that are exercising their rights making their voices heard in the last way that they feel is possible and one of the most fundamental ways that should be protected by the constitution is the freedom of speech is the freedom of assembly freedoms that we

now need to request a permit to enjoy what happened here that's not the way that america should be it should feel like those who have sworn to serve and protect the people are against them and treating them like enemy combatants we have a military it's the biggest and best funded in the world but our police force resembles that military more and more every day and the tactics they use the weapons of machines that they immediately fall back on and they're using it against their own people and i don't blame every single police officer out there for doing their job let's not forget these people are the ninety nine percent to i do or should be would realize who they're getting their orders from whose interests those orders serve it serves those of the top ones that want to shield themselves from the red state untouchable and their tower that protects the greed and corruption that goes on inside justice means nothing in the halls of power and that's what needs to change that's why the occupiers and so many americans want to change but convincing them that it can be done outside of the political system that's been bought that keeps going through the same cycles year in and year out that's the

difficult part especially when they know that there's going to be a militarized police force waiting for them once they step outside so i hope that americans stand up and do it peacefully i hope the police stand down when they know that it's right to do so and i hope that fairness justice opportunity can all be restored. time for happy hour and joining me this evening argue producer jenny church on alex sites all this is an editor for think progress dot org thank you for joining me let's. just take a listen to this radio ad it comes from texas behind at the store about two hours northwest of austin and this is a guy who's a gun instructor but he has some very distinct rules as to who he will take in or give business to take a listen. if you are

a socialist liberal and or voted for the current campaigner in chief please do not take this class you have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision as required under the law and didn't stop there also if you are a non-christian arab or muslim i will not teach you the class once again with no shame i am rocket killer thank you and god bless america. no no shame is part is what i love the best is like i don't care i know this is wrong but i just said. exercising his rights as a private business owner the first few service i love like the brazenness and hubris of it's all just like a muslim shows up and he's like no i want to serve you but he's actually going to spend his hard earned money to run a radio ad and tell the world that he is not going to serve mostly just doesn't want him in the vicinity he doesn't want him showing up and asking so he's taking care of that don't you worry and i really really love to that it's the liberals you concerned about i have to say i've been really concerned about

a liberal gun uprising for a while now so i'm really really happy that he's nothing that yet is a problem that didn't exist that he'd take care. of america. but me all right let's move on to the next story this morning this was not so funny you know some people really think it's still bill when they play games but i guess that this is what you know capitalism does to you or something like that a woman stabbed a man this is a sixty year old woman who lives in new mexico and she was drinking and playing with a stable monopoly with her grandson and her boyfriend but the grandson the bed and then the boyfriend is cheating and so she. hit him over the head with a bottle and then stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife. would you ever do that over a monopoly game to cheat him well i might do that because monopoly is so unbelievably boring i'm going to play more and if someone's pressuring me i might

lose it i don't know i totally disagree i love monopoly and i can understand after those games that last like a day where you're like you know you see the board took a picture of it so that it will move to pieces and the next day you come back somebody is shooting like this a little too far but i can i can understand it really gets your blood boiling a sixty year old woman i was and not expecting that the guy is ok he's in stable condition he was covered in cuts to his head on his wrist and was hospitalized and they found him under the porch covered in blood this is really sad and i don't know her i was in her i think she was hiding. like i gave it to you and she said no she said yes i. know you know get out of jail free card for her. i mean we just need this woman to go in and take care of wall street and everything would be all right. out.

protest everybody. now this story just warms my heart i think everybody remembers the movie flubdub millionaire give you a little clip. it was sixty but you. can. kill. people. ok so that was just a movie and that was hollywood and you know the dorothy looking guy actually date for hot actress and rely so things are good for him but this happened real india. sushil kumar this. farm labor won over a billion dollars this week on who wants to be a millionaire in india and before that he was making one hundred twenty dollars a month. that strikes me as a lot in india am i crazy or if he was a government computer computer operator you know he actually had but he was obviously came from

a very poor farming family he actually the government computer operator like i said so perhaps in india i mean i'm not credibly i don't buy on the adverse in terms of . average wages are there i mean this it's a really heartwarming story but i feel like all the media coverage about like slumdog millionaire i couldn't help but think if this wasn't in india what happened to be an indian guy he wasn't like oh he was a you know he had a job he was making like in the usa some would argue is racist. those are your words not mine but so you know he would be compared to slumdog millionaire well i'm just not that someone you know who deserved a lock actually got it this time instead of the stupid error of mary when in the lottery like happens here i don't even care of the marriott empire won the lottery i'd like to look at some care by lottery taking part in air says you know that a lottery ticket from a more deserving person that's when i say. ok i'm sure that there is somebody that lives on a dollar a day in india who probably going to you this is more than

a guy that makes one hundred twenty dollars a month but still heartwarming story the last one there's just another in the d.n.c. i think mitt romney for being a flip flop or take a look. to question. just like. ten percent. and. so i'm running for office for pete's sake. which. i mean if i don't know if that's actually going to convince anybody that you know i mean the republican establishment is already at this point having to put their cars behind mitt romney because unfortunately don't really have any other options but you know he was the major focus for. you just can't make ads fast enough to keep up with mitt romney like this ad is already out of date because today my colleague brad johnson caught mitt romney flip flopping on climate change now saying that it doesn't believe in climate science so it's like this card is one of the president's

so bad he'll take whatever position is popular in that particular moment you can play king became super popular one day you'd see him like playing king over all the landmarks in iowa new hampshire well what's really frightening to me about this is that just means that perry is now going to have to come back and do one of those before he was after and i and it's really really. sad it is gets more it gets more complicated for perry but i mean it's going to sit out you know a lot of the debates we will start seeing smoke like coming from here. our guys we got to wrap it up the things we're joined tonight have a good weekend that's it for tonight so thanks for tuning in make sure because back on monday for kerry. in the meantime don't forget the president of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter at this i mean so nice or any other night. you tube dot com slash the i want to show you i mean interviews as well as the show if i'm tired.

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