oh i'm sorry washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture of the nightmare on main street continues in sort of a police raids on occupy movements across the nation but despite police harassment and brutality along with old man winter people it's ugly face the movement is holding strong and now we republicans can't do that and while the war against the bankers on wall street intensifies this is another group of the one percent who are keeping a low profile while they profit off destruction or villa deep pockets and pocketed c.e.o.'s just a few moments. getting

to know this snow can put a stop to occupy wall street but more police raids can at least temporarily police arrested dozens of patriots over the weekend busting up occupations of austin asheville san diego and portland in denver where seventy eight people were arrested video shows police heavily armed and pointing guns at the patriots there are reports that supposedly non-lethal rubber bullets were fired into the crowd to break up the denver occupation a claim that this video seems to confirm. meanwhile in new york. us throughout. the

hour us meanwhile in new york and other cities were officials that allowed the occupations to continue patriots held steadfast despite plunging temperatures and snow in new york around one hundred patriots braved the elements after police officers confiscated their generators on friday morning before the east coast or m'soazzam of the city and in oakland where police violence gave a two time iraq war veteran brain damaged last week patriots are planning something big for this week a city wide strike is scheduled for wednesday november second from patriots plan to march to the port of oakland the nation's fifth to see it is you support and shut it down occupy oakland is encouraging other occupations around the country to

promote similar actions in their respective cities so with a narrative style nationwide strike looking like it's the next step in the occupy wall street movement it's not becoming harder and harder for our lawmakers in particular republican lawmakers to ignore average american patriots who make up the ninety nine percent movement and their issues that income inequality and the theft of america by banks there's your offer is take is the anthony home republican strategist and communications specialist and welcome back thanks for having me good to have you here eric cantor was really has been refusing to do partly speeches but you know only and who audiences up until today and a group of people stood up and then i think that we were showing as if you were not in any case. people sort of turn their backs to him today even. republicans now are being forced to talk about wealth inequality is a good thing i mean it was just like history about the well we've all democrats

republicans and parents can talk about wealth inequality for some time maybe implicitly you know the demise of the middle class we've been hearing about now for twenty years that technically as well inequality i don't particularly agree that the occupy wall street is specifically about wealth inequality but it's a good thing to have this is a question of course and so we think it's about if it's not about you know first it was wall street is bad remember that was that was the commentary of the very beginning there were some signs that malcolm h. it was that wall street represented the one percent and they'd been basically ripping off the other ninety nine percent i believe that's just the narrative as of late but fine i'll give it to you ok you know the top one percent controls forty two percent of all the wealth in america they've seen two hundred seventy five percent increase in their wealth since reagan came into office i mean thirty years of reaganomics is basically destroyed the middle class america as you point out is that appropriate that people stand up and say no no more people to see them say whatever they want i mean this is a fundamental tenet of democracy the right to peacefully assemble period so let's just accept that on its face and i heard you say a moment ago forty two the top one percent control forty two percent of the wealth

here's the top is what it was forty two percent of the yeah of all the wealth is what you said and they pay thirty six percent of the taxes yeah they are in there and over forty percent of the income and they pay thirty six percent of all taxes i don't know if these are what it is your number is correct the number you talk or at federal tax yes it's a federal income tax that's correct so bill gates i guarantee you is paying a tiny tiny percentage of his federal income tax is federal payroll tax compared to somebody who's working at wal-mart has agreed agreed and is paying a tiny fraction of his income in sales tax and all of this expense so you know it to simply focus on the federal income tax is really quite deceptive and i don't think it started at all it's an actually very average working person making the you know who's making under fifty thousand fifty six thousand dollars here in the median household now is what forty six thousand other. the average individual wage is now twenty eight thousand which is almost half of what it was waiting came in office average wages of drop because now we have two people in the household so household understand. i mean you know as i said reaganomics has wiped us out those

people are paying a much higher percentage of their income in total to agree with that statement yes ok actually correct statement that if i make ok a billion dollars a year the top one percent own fifty percent of all the stockings i mean have you have you not read thomas paine he's really really it was just a little top five percent of america five very different in the top honors of sound of high prize pay making over one hundred thirty percent of all taxes for you know this is that idea of present includes pretty much most you know white collar workers i mean that we've had this debate before let's kind of move through because i like to get on to go to the to your suggestion to your solution might be here we have less than half of the mass usually hold back the reagan tax cuts and redistribute wealth so here you go back to if you look at the period of the one nine hundred fifty s. the one nine hundred sixty s. the nineteen seventies in the one nine hundred eighty s. those are actually the the forty's fifty's sixty's and seventy's those four decades

were the only four decades in the history of the united states where for four decades in a row you had average g.d.p. growth exceed three point two percent that was it and you're in there alone does your resolution pozo towards you tajiri revolution and has one hundred years ago had it had so many different as the oracle in those four decades you had the top tax rate on the others between ninety one and seventy five what rate do you want ninety one certainly for what history shows and anthony i i guarantee you go back and look at this and in fact i would place a bet on it with you if you want history shows in the united states that when you have taxes above fifty percent on income over a million dollars you know the first million doesn't matter i hate a low tax rate when you have income tax of both fifty percent you have a stable economy when it goes below fifty percent you end up with bubbles and crashes so you believe that because the because. people have cheap free money and the right number don't want to go because you know it's at least fifty already ready to ask her what now to go back to seventy four percent seventy four percent so no one is incentivized to make an extra dollar because seventy four cents out of

every hour that i was really worth so everyone is going to be a millionaire one dollar that's your that's your tax code there is going to go on what you know you know what that did absurd what that did was it produced a nation where the average c.e.o. made thirty times we know it was a menace growth we have so many other thing the average c.e.o. you know it's going to mentally unfair is oh i believe not only is it every dollar i make is gone the government after your first mill you know there's no reason to make anything over a million and i mean air force plane supply are considered to leave income what do you do there but you do you don't work you know he's not working let me tell you what i did you know back it back in the seventy's i had a bit before reagan's tax cuts i had a business where i was making enough money that my tech my income tax bracket was way about forty percent my c.p.a. came to me and said you're crazy to take this kind of money out of your business you know you're paying most of it in taxes keeping the business as we want and twelve employees we massively grew the business and i ended up making more money

when i saw the seventy four percent tax rate of millionaires is going to increase job growth this year evacuated for four decades it's just it's just everyone who looks at that objectively and rationally knows it's absurd it has on its face and what happened to this these in the sixty's in the seventy's in the eighty's they do you understand advises anyone to get it did you not over i know you dollars have been put in one of those people i can tell you when your tax rate hits those kind of price you go you know ok i'll keep it looks if i make a million dollars by april fifteenth of the year why would i ever work for the rest of the year well if you don't love cereal love your work and you know all of your business should be doing and grow out of. the break you the occupy wall street movement isn't just about the one percent versus the ninety nine percent it's about what type of society we really want to live you know there's a point in michael moore. movie his is a movie about how the health care system where he looks at the camera and says words to the effect of at some point we have to decide do we want to live in

a we society or a nice society historically humans have chosen to live in a we society whether it's tribal people whether you go back to the bible or i mean matthew twenty five the foundational concepts of christianity judaism you know it's restated matthew twenty five care for the homeless care for the hungry feed the hungry heal the sick this is fundamental stuff thomas paine laid out in his book agrarian justice he actually proposed a social security system thomas paine in the seven hundred ninety s. when our country was first being found it promised to propose social security proposed minimum wage proposed equivalent of unionization proposed that every person upon birth should have some basic fundamental amount of money allocated to them that they could use throughout their lives but there would be a decent retirement and it's really quite extraordinary most of the things that came along with the new deal thomas paine proposed and seventeen the occupy wall street movement for example the ultimate example of

a we society free books free health care free food people working together and if you look at the republican budget you find the exact opposite the republican budget is all about a nice society mazes these are called feudalism where the very very few own pretty much everything including all the property of the of the of the of the serfs it's kingdoms it's koku ville as in koper others feel this is the world that the libertarians and the right wingers want to bury us and frankly it's not the world that has historically been america and it's an america that i don't think anybody record. it. is time for a deal that call your chance to tell us what you think it is that is question will snow or police raids put a stop to occupy wall street your choices are yes police are raiding protests all

over the country or no it just makes them stronger on the sammartino economy tell us what you think the polls open until tomorrow morning. coming up does a zygote have the same rights as a fully adult human being this is something voters will take this issue to the polls next month and i'll debate the topic with my conservative guest right up with . what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to create through get through to me who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery to see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

says the occupy wall street movement began nearly a month and a half ago there's been more and more focus on the top one percent in america who exactly these people are who control nearly half of all the wealth in america and all the usual suspects of the banks on wall street people like j.p. morgan chase c.e.o. jamie dimon goldman sachs c.e.o.

lloyd blankfein or bank of america c.e.o. brian morning all of whom make enormous multimillion dollar paychecks the real greed monsters on the one percent don't reside on wall street at all the top one one hundredth of one percent of america's war profiteers who are making enormous bucks hurdling our nation into one war after another people like northrop northrop grumman c.e.o. was bush who made more than twenty two million bucks those chairs and lockheed martin c.e.o. robert stevens and boeing c.e.o. james mcnerney both guys who collect a salary that would make banks green with envy the brave new foundation has just launched a new campaign to expose the one one hundredth of one percenters in america take a look. the c.e.o.'s of the biggest military contractors are at the head of the pack.

and. these four industry c.e.o.'s use their company's massive lobbying corruption conversely keep their great train rolling. and. the c.e.o.'s businesses or drag on for decades while the rest of us pay the price. they're crow joins me now he is the political director of the brave new foundation welcome thanks how are you a fine thank you thanks for joining us tonight what motivated brave new foundation to expose the one hundredth of one percenters well we want to people to understand who they're talking about when they're talking about the one percent and we've got a large a camp a little talk about that are coming up in the next couple of weeks but we thought that people would be really surprised you know used to thinking like you said earlier of people like the head of goldman sachs or paper of america and they don't

realize that the people who work behind the lobbying pushes to keep us in wars longer than we need to be your to start wars you need to be in in the first place are making so much money that they're actually in the top one hundred one percent and if you look at the top ten the pentagon's largest contractors that make the most money at the pentagon the c.e.o.'s of seven of those ten companies are in the top one hundredth of one percent and all of them are in the top one tenth of a percent of u.s. household incomes it's really courageous this this really very much is the military industrial complex the white house and her one was about and it's one nine hundred sixty one farewell address how is it different from how it was before world war two . well there's one big difference i think it used to be embarrassed seen in america for politicians or the heads of these companies to talk about the economic impacts of war profiteering as a jobs program which it's not by the way but that used to be

a slur to say you were doing political engineering when you put together a contract because it rightly carried with it the connotation that you're sticking these factories all over the country in an attempt to win business in not to do the best job for the federal government but to win business in those districts and win an advocate from those congressional districts in congress that has totally changed in the last couple of decades in addition to the massive amounts that these companies spend lobbying they inject little pieces of their business into each congressional district so they can basically blackmail a member of congress and say you've got to vote to approve this contract and you've got to become an advocate for congress or we're going to run ads in your district and say you're costing local jobs but that larger argument is false we've shown in our past videos that were costs and you can find them at work astarte com that military spending is a jobs killer it compared to almost any other kind of spending and even compared to just regular old consumer spending what the jobs that are created by military

spending are many many times fewer then the other kinds of spend as just it's just kind of common sense that if you spend your money if you spend a million dollars building a bridge or a road that's going to serve a school that's going to serve the nation from decades if he's spent a building to drop it on somebody or some other country it's going on. the you know franklin roosevelt famously said during world war two that he would not allow there to be no one war millionaire as the result of what he referred to as the current difficulties and any put harry truman in charge of a senate committee to oversee the war contractors to make sure that we're really not one war millionaire it was made out of world war two now we've got these war millionaires you know basically bragging about it live in a high you know fancy pants what has happened in the psyche of america. i mean can you imagine any president or any current politician giving a speech where they say not one more millionaire is going to be made as a result of this war i think that embarrassment that you're going to make money off

what f.d.r. called this war a disaster because it is a disaster it's not something that ever makes any society stronger it always is about tearing down. the idea that it's an embarrassment to run after it basically it's basically i j get a version of what's called ambulance chasing right like can you imagine you know any politician standing up to that i think that has been the real change in the psyche here these companies have been so effective at using the money that they mostly get from us right from the taxpayer almost all these companies get almost all of their money from taxpayer funded contracts they have been so effective at taking that money shoving it both into media campaigns and into lobbying and campaign donations and turning this system against us really they're taking that money and translating it into billions more in profits every year and they're spending on their campaign in lobbying investments that they basically don't agree information ops on the american people so we now typically think of military

spending on contractors as jobs programs which it's not we think of it as inherently american business which it's not we've talked to lots of the connoisseur of the workhouse project and we've learned from them there because military spending is sucking r. and d. in brainpower out of civilian pursuits that are actually more productive we're actually hurting american competitiveness around the world and that's that's intolerable and we've got stuck how do we do that. well the first thing people can do is call their representative right now tell them that you want the deficit committee if they're going to make cuts to make cuts that will cost us the least jobs in military spending since it's a job killer in general is where they've got hurt if they're going to cut something they cannot allow these other social programs that lead to more productive economic activity like social security medicare to be cut at the expense of the military budget the second thing people can do is check out our site it work astarte com and on facebook at facebook dot com slash we're cos we're constantly putting out new

videos that expose that point zero one percent but also the real damage that's being done to our country and get your friends abroad because like you said the psyche of the country right now is part of the problem and we've got to break through this propaganda spin there somehow military spending equates to economic activity it really doesn't. thanks so much for being with us and thank you so very well said time to put the one on one hundredth of one percent out of business or at least bring them down to one percent any and our wars and bring our troops. in other news finally a question of personhood has made it on the ballot unfortunately we're not talking about corporate personhood we're talking about fetal personhood it was ition about controlling the lives of women on on which both the taliban and fundamentalists in the catholic church agree the ultra religious right has a new tactic to ban everything from abortion to birth control to in vitro

fertilization next month voters will hit the polls in mississippi to decide whether or not personhood rights should be granted to a cluster of cells right after fertilization if the ballot measure passes as most observers think it will then a zygote will have the same rights as the woman carrying it similar ballot measures are currently under way in wisconsin ohio florida and a slew of other states so what can a worms in such a redefinition of personhood open your offer her take on this is station apol attorney conservative commentator and author of the book the homeowners guide to surviving foreclosure a sure welcome. hi welcome thanks tom thanks for having me michel my pleasure so the moment a woman becomes pregnant the state can assign a lawyer to supervise her and make sure that she presents no risks to her zygote does this mean that we should put alarms in people's bedrooms to lawyers to be notified when women have sex. we're not saying that this is really

a good thing because medicine is change in there a lot of women who are probably the to name in childbirth to pursue a career so this is going to help most women who are in for a while and they have to rely upon the state to protect them just in case they have to hire a surrogate so medicine is changing we need to evolve the way we think. the position of fetuses or even zygotes even fertilized eggs before implantation having the rights of a human being. would allow for surrogate pregnancies but it would blow up in vitro fertilization because in vitro fertilization you typically fertilized twenty or thirty eggs you find a copy of it or in most viable you implant them so after women become pregnant you know. just stop without any what's wrong with in vitro for i realize you know the

catholic church has an official position that they don't like in vitro fertilization the taliban is not all that fond of it but i think the average american thinks it's probably a reasonable thing i mean if it is i mean we do have to expand a we you know define things technology again is change in people are having kids that a much older age they're going to be are in a line of their how do you want to interview trophyless if they should. we are not trying to ban in vitro fertilization we're trying to protect another group of people who will be coming up women who have issues are finally going to be able to get but they didn't have a tie in in vitro fertilization i'm sure you know those you know they'll take twenty or thirty eggs out of a woman and put them in a petri dish along with her husband's sperm unsolder if they're all fertilized and then they figure out which ones they're going to implant the implant three or four sometimes if there's three or four implantations you know they'll abort a couple of those that would this is all like in the first week you know before

they're even while they're still microscopic so that there's one baby they can grow to pregnancy by if you're a law was passed every single one of those fertilized eggs in the petri dish becomes a human being and is entitle to a lawyer to protect them and the power of the state literally having police show up and putting guns to the heads of the women or of the researchers saying you will not destroy that egg i mean right now every year in the united states lives of thousand of these are more down the drain you want a criminal but i think that's being too broad i think that if you've been to our hearts and it's a clinic you feel what women are going through to be able to preserve their eggs they're going to acupuncturist this then in hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to get pregnant and this is this is going to protect them i mean there are you states even today that do not recognize that the circuit could take the child and the state though does not have a law on the book that's going to protect the mother so there are going to get a lot of people who are going to be able to benefit from this they'll start to open our minds technologies change and we have to start changing the definition to

incorporate that we take nice are you suggesting now that if a moment that a woman becomes pregnant if the moment. and of course you might not even know that for four weeks but if the moment a woman becomes pregnant her though those cells in her body that represent the fertilized egg now have a legal right to an attorney and the legal right for the state to protect them from the mother does that mean that as soon as women are diagnosed as being pregnant we should serve putting detectors on them to puncture their skin and measure their blood alcohol to make sure that they're not drinking for example. ok so what about the fact that there are some women who are probably have been pregnant for all of them and they probably because they have oh you know they're older and then of course they have children who want to probably forced the child or the you know feet of not inherit you know there's different things i'm just saying that things are becoming more complicated we're live in longer time before we have women who

are you could name child birth so we do need to have a broad aspect of what i child is. going to help this society this longer than anyone is pregnant the police should follow around to make sure she doesn't jump on a trampoline i mean. for example a woman is experiencing a dangerous pregnancy and is five months pregnant there's a fifty fifty chance her fetus will survive delivered by a c. section we're going to bore shinsho easily survive but if she has to deliver by c section there's a fifty fifty cent chance she will survive who should make that decision a surrogate who heard her name and what about a circus that's probably wants to do drugs is it ok shouldn't we have a lawyer to protect the parents who gave the surrogate be to us but i'm sure you example i just shared with you is what you want is your body if he was sure to do what you wanted you have all the drugs you want go ahead drink it's fine it's fine you know we do have to recognize that there's a group of people that are going to rely upon this whole hollerin going to monitor

these women then as soon as they become pregnant and for the nine months of their pregnancy how are we going to monitor them to make sure that they don't use drugs and they don't drink alcohol. we're not saying that we're going to monitor them but i would think that a person who turned their fetus over to a surrogate probably will figure out whether or not the person is doing drugs then they could get the course so how do we monitor the surrogate so so so it's so if a married couple. have have a surrogate if the man has sex with a surrogate and she's not carrying the baby that's going to do that couples should the police follow her around for her pregnancy if it doesn't work that way when i send a man who's going to have six of us are going to some more like they're going to have a procedure where there's a doctor involved the doctor the sperm the way we know what's in this what we're talking about would outlaw their personhood would outlaw that i guess what i'm trying to say if somehow we have to be able to preserve the right of a child if the surrogate is probably turned out not to be some buddy who should be

carrying a child where you know drugs is in the law but it. gets the truth sorry we have those laws in place no no no no this is this this is the new this is the new this is coming down most states are still not settled on these issues so that's one thing we need to broaden our horizon madison is change in so we have to be able to think different think outside the box we need to be able to evolve the way we think and this is a very very good bill it's going to benefit a lot of women who have pertinent the issue is and now they're going to be able to help the confidence they need in order to preserve you know bringing a child into this world ok tell. me you know i honor your your best intentions i think this is the wrong way to do it but thank you for coming on the program today and discussing it with thanks so much for having me thank you coming up talking about cashing in on a favor speaker boehner is pushing the department of energy to back the funds of the new nuclear plans for a campaign contributor surprise.