hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to john boehner it's been a mixed bag of first year for the speaker of the house on his watch we've come close to a government shutdown and congress almost let the nation default on its debt all because the speaker and the president couldn't come to a deal that would include new revenues which led to the creation of the super committee now leaders on capitol hill including john boehner are feeling the heat

over the stalled negotiations of the super committee and the group only has a few weeks left to reach a deal to cut the deficit and if no deal is reached and several triggers will kick in and that means that social programs democrats love and defense projects that republicans love ball be on the chopping block so it is a weekly news conference boehner was asked about reports of the super committee was looking at tax increases to reduce the deficit and he signaled that revenues might be part of the plan which for republicans is a big deal so that's what advice i've received luke russert asked of the tax increases boehner was seeming to put on the table would violate grover norquist no new taxes pledge pledge that almost every republican in congress has signed. our focus here is our jobs we're doing then we care that you have to get our economy moving and get people back to work not offer them ask about some random person in america you know what i said come on john you don't know who grover norquist is

he's just a random guy that is total b.s. now for viewers at home right now i know who grover norquist is he's the president of americans for tax reform on his web site there's a pledge about not raising taxes and it reads a.t.r. organizes the taxpayer protection pledge which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases and one hundred twelfth congress two hundred thirty eight house members and forty one senators have taken the pledge on the state level thirteen governors and one thousand two hundred and forty nine state legislators have taken the pledge so john boehner really wants us to believe that two hundred thirty eight house members have signed grover's pledge but he's still just some random guy the speaker is no star growing up for that comment listen to how he tries to weasel out of the question as luke russert continues to press him on the issue. or you're going off the road with the right person so our forces are creating jobs not talking about somebody is personality. that is that is what he is. what he stands

for yes you do you know i say to you well. listen our term friends as opposed to tax rates because we believe that tax hikes for her our economy and put americans out of work. good job deflecting there mr speaker but what legislation has the g.o.p. house passed to create jobs oh that's right you haven't since taken control this year the g.o.p. a voted to defund n.p.r. p.b.s. and planned parenthood this week they voted to reaffirm in god we trust as the national motto in the same time period they voted down president obama's jobs bill along with a smaller jobs plan that would have given states funding to hire teachers cops and firefighters as well as yesterday voting down a bill that would have funded infrastructure spending creating more jobs and so now john boehner wants to stand before the american people pretend that he doesn't know who this grover norquist guy is or what his pledge is all about he's just some random guy not worth talking about that is

a bold faced lie mr boehner surely knows who mr grover norquist is because arguably he's more powerful than the speaker himself amongst his republican colleagues and that's the problem that this one man has so many members of congress right by the balls to the point where they will stall anything so as not to for say his pledge so republican house speaker john boehner looking into reporters face acting like this is just some random guy now we're talking about even though he arguably could take a lot of the blame for our do nothing congress we're going to give him tonight to a time award. now this sunday thousands are expected to descend on to washington d.c. to protest the approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline something that some of called game over for the climate we've spoken about the project many times before on this show pipeline would run seven hundred miles long from canada right across the u.s. to the gulf of mexico would carry oil extracted from canada's tar sands extracting crude from tar sands it's a process that a lot of environmental medalists say produces incredibly high levels of greenhouse

gases a noble peace prize recipient top scientists celebrities lawmakers have all asked president obama to deny the permit for this pipeline and it will be his decision this is tuesday he announced that he personally would say yes or no on numerous reports of come out showing conflicts of interest between state department employees and transplant. the lobbyists the e.p.a. is even criticize the state department's official environmental evaluations so could this sunday be a kind of a turning point or will the e.p.a. the state department and the president give in to industry pressure or discuss this with me is bill mckibben writer activist and founder of tar sands action and three fifty dot org his latest book is earth making a life on a tough new planet well thank you so much for being here and there it's good to be here so the last time that people came out to protest this case don't pipeline in front of the white house and went on for a matter of two weeks over a thousand people were arrested so tell me how that's going to differ from the actions happening there yes that was the largest civil disobedience action in about

thirty five years in this country sunday very peaceful it will be the first time people have attempted to ring the white house in human beings we'll see if we can get enough protesters i think we can there seem to be buses converging on washington from all around the country this is becoming the biggest environmental flash point in decades and it's very exciting to see it happen. one of the things that they have to prove here in order for this pipeline to be approved is that it's in our national interest so can you tell me how it's in our national interest well it's not only not in our national interest it's not in our planetary interest either as twenty of the nation's top scientists pointed out in a letter to the president. the state department was supposed to do an environmental review of this pipeline but instead of doing it they contracted out to a company that the pipeline builder trance candidate chose for them and the company that they chose was a company that lists tranced canada is one of their major clients in essence trans

canada got to review itself which explains perhaps why a environmental review of the seven hundred mile pipeline to the second biggest pool of carbon on earth found that it would have no environmental effect that's ludicrous and we understood a little more how ludicrous it was this we. when reporters found that one twenty something year old that the state department had been the only person running this environmental review person wasn't even an environmental expert they were called the diplomatic courier and after a couple of years of the only person overseeing that they were shuffled off to nigeria this is not been a serious effort at all and it's time for the president to take ownership and do the right job why is it that it hasn't been a serious effort and do you think that is it negligence is it is it corruption is a proving that a democratic administration isn't necessarily a climate green friendly administration we're going to find out how climate friendly it is the one person we haven't heard from is president obama so far the

oil companies run this thing but the president retains the power to stand up to them and block it this thing's called a presidential permit that he needs to sign off on before this pipeline can be built because it crosses international boundaries we'll find out if all those things he said in two thousand and eight time to when the tyranny of oil in my administration the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal beautiful things will find out how real they were in fact when we go around the white house every banner that will be carrying just quotes from president obama in two thousand and eight how hard do you think this is in terms of defining what kind of a president and he he is and what kind of policies he have paul is i mean there are a lot of things that this president said while he was campaigning yes that he hasn't helped lay off from foreign policy to you know talking about domestic policy including let me address two is one is i think it's going to be very important in

the next year among people who came out to vote for him last time in more than vote who came out to work for him last time many of them were young people and they listed climate change as one of the biggest issues facing the country they won't be able to muster that enthusiasm without this that's in the short run in the long run . i think there's very little doubt that the greatest question historians fifty years from now will ask about this president is whether or not he dealt with the biggest problem humans face now and they've ever faced climate change so far the record is mixed at best this is a man who opened huge swaths of montana to coal mining a fellow who just a few weeks ago said b.p. could get back to work drilling in the goal for a man who allowed drilling in the arctic to resume. this is his chance to show that he's back in the game to show the point people really do appeal to him if he's asked us to do when we get involved in politics but he will answer and i'm

hopeful while there so that he or something here because obviously the top thing on americans' minds right now is the economy you know are they want to worry about the wars that we're fighting of rod or the threat of climate change how it's going to affect us in the future and they need to be able to put it on the table right now they need to be able to pay their mortgages and so there's a lot of lobbying being done for the pipeline so this is something that's on the website by the building trade unions where they play upon the momentum of the occupy movement they say hollywood's elite one percent should stop flying to d.c. and speaking out against jobs for america's ninety nine percent so what do you think about tactic here they are taking this particular movement and trying to i mean this is a real sharing i think it's very sad to see people trying to co-opt the power of occupy wall street it should be pointed out that everybody who's been sort of working on these big broad progressive movements is very much against this pipeline

from bernie sanders to several of the big trade unions just yesterday the union of domestic workers in this country joined in pointing out among other things that many of their members come from places that are already disappearing underwater or turning into drought stricken deserts because i want to try and dispel some of the myths that that they post on the. sites in the mist that you see in commercials that are being played all across the country because they say that immediately it's going to create twenty thousand your eyes at sector jobs they say that this is going to reduce our reliance on foreign oil as well let's talk about jobs there's only one study of this not paid for by trans canada ok and it was conducted in fact the labor movement cornell global labor institute what it found is the pipeline would create about three thousand temporary jobs if you built the thing and it would eliminate about that many jobs by raising gas prices in the midwest it would be in essence a wash in the short term and in the long run clearly it will keep us from delayed

us for some years from getting to that job rich transition to wind and solar energy think about how many jobs once you've built that there's a pipeline create none that's the point of a pipeline it just lies there in the ground it doesn't need a soul to work on our it's the last couple seconds left so quickly foreign oil is going to reduce our reliance on and what about china who has expressed interest in who can do that we'll give it to we don't do it well the first of all this will seems like it's mostly going abroad it's going to be refined in texas and sent to latin america second of all to get it to china you have to have a pipeline west to british columbia in the first nations the indigenous people who lead incredible opposition are pretty convinced that they'll be able to block those pipelines for the next ten or twenty years given enough time canada might find a way to get this out but given enough time we have to hope that the world will come to its senses about global warming and recognize that this is precisely the kind of thing the planet simply can't do i but i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know we'll see how this turns out it is an article i

around the white house on. thanks so much. coming up next we have our fireside friday and then happy hour to the banks turns to crap takes on wall street protesters plus we're getting so fat that carmakers are going to have to build wider. just. discovery. communicate with the wind. and become free. see what nature can give you. from los

angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough earth emergency department beds and not enough nurses to man those that seek to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to turn it around so i started out i want to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a safe francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care and emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued

the least. to tonight's fireside your. cops. tell you about a story printed in the wall street journal today the headline read u.s. tightens drone rules and this story said that the cia has made a series of secrets to concessions and thrown campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained the large strikes were damaging the fragile u.s. relationship with pakistan this was of course one of those secret concessions apparently made during the summer that officials anonymously told the wall street journal about and let's not forget it's against the law to leak classified or

secret information unless it's high ranking officials that want the information to get out but let's go back to the story that shows just how out of touch our government the cia the media and the american people are when it comes to comprehending the damage that our drone strikes do you know one of the biggest problems of course is that the cia doesn't even publicly acknowledge its drone strikes they think that they can do it all in secrecy and no one is going to notice some people in pakistan or yemen or somalia or killed now for the most part very few people here in the u.s. do actually notice because records of strikes are kept secret by the government unless of course they have some success if they want publicized like the killing of anwar. but when it comes to civilian deaths they keep the numbers real low there the cia claims that there have only been sixty civilian deaths over the years and the media well they don't bother to dig any deeper they just take the official word and they move on but if you ask locals in pakistan and they won't tell you the same story they'll tell you about their friends their neighbors their relatives that have been killed they'll tell you about what it's like living life where drones are

circling around their homes all day and strike in the middle of the night and a british reporter clive stafford smith recalled his experience meeting with passion tribal elders living along the pakistani afghan border they brought their young sons along to witness the meeting and when civilian deaths are brought up they explain how hard and how dangerous it is. to try and get the real numbers of the pakistani military seals areas off from journalists the one man who was trying to investigate on his own was captured by the taliban and then held on suspicion of spying for the united states so then one of the young boys said that he would investigate that he would go out and gather evidence to protect his family from future harm. before this boy had a chance he was killed by a cia drone strike with his twelve year old cousin and that drone strike was this week that's right well the wall street journal is reporting that during the summer it was decided that there should be new rules for drone strikes that there should be launched more selectively oh where's the proof of any of those changes the u.s. has stepped up its efforts against the haqqani network just in the last one or two

months alone they've launched numerous drone attacks some reports will tell you that one hundred twenty civilians have been killed in the last two days others will detail deaths of tens at a time but it's hard to know what really happened nobody but the government has the truth and they won't give it to us so to hear that there's some internal dissent or disagreement between top ranking military and state department officials well it's a welcome sight at least there is some recognition that unmanned killing machines the legal and ethical questions but for the most part our officials our president our secretary of state they're all on board with using drones using machines they kill from afar where the decision is made thousands of miles away and a button is pushed and nobody gets their hands dirty it's not right and it needs to be examined in order for us to properly examine the use of drones the civilian deaths that are caused by drones we need the media and we need the people to be zealous about it because the more that everybody stands by pretend that they don't know that it's happening all the more guilty that we all are playing

a role in allowing our government to be an international killing machine with no replication. hi guys it's time for half the hour and joining me tonight is lauren lister host of the capital account on r t and andrew blake r t web writer thanks for joining me guys welcome back so happy hour mrs laura lister we missed you it's nice to be back i've missed many happy hours with you ok so this is i mean a lot of people have done parodies thus far when it comes to i was three in the one percent being total jerks about it but this was just pretty good this is done by the cult comedy picture show take a look. everything's the like. the sports section but you won't

see me in. the draft picks so. i gotta say to you. we're going to have a good voice but you gotta get. used to it. so i mean i know everybody loves that song right like ghetto boys feel good to be a gangsta and years ago. little little time we would what's your point was your voice a good song and they did a good job i think that's what they have going for them i was a little disappointed with this one i feel like usually they get really people get really creative with like the economics at the theater when they're maybe i've just gotten to the recent t.v. ones that they do well but it was that it was you know i am saving my real level i guess you could say the reason t.v. video is but i think i had a little herman cain in the mix and what do you think herman cain was the best part . of the watch the video i did i actually watched it this time was like five

minutes ago and i laughed once. the video right there why do we have the banks on the condoms so usually i don't get it i don't think i'll do the law yeah right well i think this is them capitalizing on occupy wall street. whatever get more people to go on video option. what do you say i have a co-op that we said i said thumbs down that sounds nothing like a lot while i plead that i am i just i'm going to do you know what i'm doing i'm doing ok or maybe i'm going to show your head ok so. let's move on to the next and then so i really love this story so this guy ok play the clip i think explains it pretty well and then we'll get into whatever is in it . i got the rest i watched it and locked up in the rockdale county jail because watch shows you decided to give the bill collector i'd taste of their own medicine so i started calling them and i'll call them and call them and call them on two days will you please stop calling here. i mean everybody knows how obnoxious

telemarketers are the bill collectors of people that is call you all the time and the thing is that it wasn't even him that they were calling for they kept calling for some other guy's name when he was telling them this is not me this is not me so then he picked up three different phones and started calling them fifty times a day and they had him arrested and i think that's total b.s. i completely agree i cannot believe that this guy ended up in jail for this i have to give him so much credit though because he couldn't be happier he would sign the reporter it's the legal fees he's going to have to pay or the best money is ever so then who doesn't want to do something like this only just to get them back absolutely this guy is my hero how did he get their number anyway. i mean i mean i think it shows clearly brilliant clearly i think that this man is now you know a little bit of a folk hero i think exactly i think he's going to start a bunch of copycats and now kind of like this new trend of taking back the bill collectors i've heard you know like you know quite a few stories like this before people they just send one hundred like faxes from

some number he's the ninety nine percent that's. from the one percent ok. this will give them anybody because they already know. it so this one is really messed up this is if you want to talk about political correctness going too far people just not letting children be children anymore look at what happened to these two kids. one fourteen year old nicholas martinez hugged a friend at southwest middle school his mom says he got suspended might do it that was the most bizarre thing i've ever heard of the work culture of family and that's what we do. are it's what happened is he just went past his friend in the hall gave a spread to the principal happened. and they called him into the office and suspended them and they say because like these the people are friends the mom was obviously defending her son and they said our focus is on learning their. for we

cannot discriminate or make an opinion on what is inappropriate what's not inappropriate what you may think is appropriate another person may view as inappropriate so basically so they don't have to do any research and look into the eggs and tell whether there's like some grabbing going on. no hugs allowed no legs allowed at school this is particularly you know you know it's all good i do think this is ridiculous and that was what i was going to say and thought but then i remember that this story is in florida and when you're talking about florida every weird story like probably ninety five percent of the ones that make it on happy hour all happen in florida so i actually think they have a fair argument that they you know they can't take it upon themselves to discern what's a normal hug a weird hug a creepy because we're stuff happens in florida. i may be this is a good case of a nobody on the wrong with i mean did you not hug all your friends know you were and i knew it wouldn't go around the halls hugging their friends. don't go on your i'm sure you didn't get any hugs in high school and were talking. oh you just think

you can read like are you really are you kidding i'm kidding. i think what they need to do is look into the boner status excuse me governor status whether or not there is a bone or. even know where to go. to weird anyway kids should be allowed to hug their kids everybody just take a little step back kids are doing a lot worse than hugging when they're fourteen years old think that's going to stop them from going home and having sex that you're very often say and ok let's do the last story of the evening which is a little thing of that luxury carmakers are calling. my ride because people are getting so fat they're actually having to expand their car so mercedes for example are strengthening the grand grab handles of the doors making it easier for passengers to lift themselves out of the seat poorish is installing electrically

powered steering columns that lift up when the engine shuts off making it easier to get out of the vehicle and honda is widening its not luxury maker. seats up to two inches and widening its buttons to allow for quotes so. that actually they wrote sausage fingers this is just sad i can't believe that luxury car makers are stooping to this level i would understand more of the mass retailers but maybe it's on snobby i just don't think it's very good for their image but who drives luxury cars probably people that are people rich people i mean people with money people that like it or you know we have no i mean that's a totally bad stereotype but i mean we're going to get really bad this is we're going to get and yeah it's a fry. but i would have five there are a lot of wealthy people that are overweight just as there are a lot of wealthy people but i just think it's interesting because fashion designers have gone this direction they've refused to kind of like adjust their size into

account for a growing population i just think it's interesting that luxury car makers have decided to have to wrap it up unfortunately guys have a great weekend they go do it i mean that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make sure they come back on monday activist and author david swanson is going to join us to talk about his new book on the world outlawed war in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the lower show on facebook and follow us on twitter you miss any of the nice or any other nights you can always catch telling you dot com slash deal or shell and coming up next is the news. in canada and the us that it is legal for you to use a bottle on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the parents of the most independent they are sponsored by the industry and most of the time they don't

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