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nobody seems to know. that never break the face but the argument that they're being overly dramatic. it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first on respond to a viewer who watched our interview with republican presidential candidate and former governor buddy roemer mr sash three one three said on you too the only republican i'd vote for and he's not even on the radar really if this guy was supported properly he'd blow all other candidates out of the water and i think it was we are really at the nail on the head whether you agree with buddy roemer

policies or not he deserves a spot on the main stage a chance a debate like everybody else and yet here we see a perfect example of how the media elevates people like herman cain while candidates like buddy roemer gary johnson had no love or attention from that and the thing is if you look at the republican candidates that are highlighted by the media they carry some pretty extreme positions which are now considered republican orthodoxy we've shown you clips on how attitudes towards immigration reform who moved very sharply to the right even the g.o.p. darling that ronald reagan would be extreme for today's republican party now my belief is that if buddy roemer were allowed to communicate and share his beliefs and positions with the people a lot of them would probably like what he has to say now while i certainly don't agree with governor romer on everything his message of getting money out of politics resonates not only with me but would resonate with millions of americans if only they would be allowed to hear it and next how to respond to a viewer who watched my fireside friday on the u.s. drone program joshua wilcox tweeted makes an excellent point cia drone program is

secret and the only official info that leaks is what my house wants you to know and that truly is the crux of the problem with the cia drone program which operates in several countries with little or no oversight because nobody knows anything about the program it's all kept secret that most americans have no clue. about the number of people killed by drones or even the countries that they operate in and the information that we do have is the information that the government wants us to have the information that highlights the successes of the drone program or hear about the death of anwar locky and a perfect year of not killing any civilians as of may two thousand and ten not surprisingly they leave out the fact that the cia is killing large groups of people in drone strikes without knowing for sure who they are or that the bureau of investigative journalism in london reported at least forty five civilian deaths in the same time period at the cia claims there were zero so the bottom line is that we only know what the government tells us and that's simply not enough now finally i want to respond to a viewer that watched our interview with immortal technique soldier for islam

commented on you tube saying thank you for posting this up alone or immortal technique is one of my greatest inspirations because he has the courage to expose the truth of course he's just a man a man who has earned my respect salute so thank you for watching it really was a pleasure having immortal technique on the show it's nice to hear from an artist who's not afraid to cut through the b.s. in the political correctness and just say what he feels like forward to having him back on the show in the future that's if my ranting today but as usual i'll be back with more later in the week. now i'll not show we spoke with environmental activist bill mckibben anticipation of a massive protest against the keystone x.l. pipeline sets take place at the white house this past weekend so yesterday about twelve thousand people showed up for the protest carrying signs and linking to form a chain and circling six hundred pennsylvania avenue.

and climate environmental activists were joined by religious leaders and nobel peace prize winner since tell the obama administration that they shouldn't go forward with a seven billion dollar trance canada oil project now as of now no decision has been made there are still a lot of questions about the state department's possibly an ethical review of the seven hundred mile high climb over think progress report today at the state department's office of inspector general is now conducting its own investigation of that review process after several congressmen filed a request so in the meantime those in favor of the pipeline including several major labor unions are all gearing up their advertising blitz promising that it will create thousands of jobs and reduce our reliance on foreign oil and i'd like these have been popping up more frequently on t.v. and hopes of winning over the american people. produced or three point. seven. i mean. it was something really.

it's now it's a good opposition to the pipeline apartment activists been arguing for months that this above ground oil pipeline would create toxic gases linked to global warming and opponents are so upset that they've threatened not to campaign in favor of obama an upcoming presidential election which could be a really big problem for the president in two thousand and eight he had the backing of the environmentalists and its upcoming election proved to be difficult to really hurt obama if he doesn't hold on to that support but it looks like the president may have found a way to get him out of this tough position according to l a times team obama is now considering delaying the decision on the pipeline until after next year's election so the administration might call on sponsors to reduce the project's environmental risks before it gets presidential approval and these provisions could ultimately delay any construction until after two thousand and twelve that's a pretty slick and cynical move on the president's part proving a once again that he might care more about getting elected and protecting the environment but it doesn't change the fact that these demonstrations are growing

getting twelve thousand people out of the white house that's no small feat and as word spreads about the pipeline more people are getting involved so can obama put the issue on the back burner long enough to lose the public's attention i think that it's doubtful they'll forget this is one decision the lies solely in his hands . now just a few weeks ago that speaker of the house john boehner gave a speech at the heritage foundation warning of a neo soviet russia with the impending return of lattimer couldn't and telling the president that he should rethink the reset as it's contrary to american interests and values so despite the reset since president obama came into office despite the signing of the new start treaty seems like republicans still want to hold on the cold war thinking or is it just anti obama thinking criticizing everything he does despite the value that his policies might bring out the rhetoric heating up over iran's nuclear aspirations here in washington how important will it be to keep up the reset keep the right wing war hawks in the bay joining me to discuss this is

graham allison director of the belfer center for science and international affairs at harvard's kennedy school and former assistant secretary of defense in the clinton administration graham i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and let me first ask you what it is that you think is going on here we hear these comments coming from john boehner or other politicians on the right do they really think that the reset was a bad idea that it needs to be rethought or are they just trying to push on the everything that obama does is wrong i think the letter. said commentary see we're into are silly season he'll be in his because. mostly. he. was wrong now graham you recently wrote a piece entitled ten reasons why russia matters so we'll get to the specifics but first give us a broad overview. well i did actually your your intro to a point that the if you look at baen or speech which deserves to be looked at

because he is after all speaker of the house he basically fundamentally misunderstands the fact that russia matters usually to american national interests that is russia's choice that it's easier to do have been run by big impacts on the security and well being of the u.s. so just who is going to make it to front so which nation over the last twenty years has done the most appropriate to the spread of nuclear weapons to other nations i think as we're just waiting near it i think the republican party here and say ok ok i'll give you four quest it's a neat contract never never never will i yeah ok i am for the grass and i'm going to us. which nation has done the most to prevent loose nukes falling in the hands of terrorists third question which nation is an it war will end yes claude will

energy markets. will and gas that actually impacts the price but americans pay at the pump for the gasoline for their cars and any other. and next which nation is actually providing the most vital. supply to the hundred thousand american troops fighting in afghanistan and it's not a surprise you want the answers russia russia russia and russia was at peace. a little polluted leslie says. our for reasons why russia rather not because you care about russia but because you care about what's good for the u.s. now i want to talk about what's good for the u.s. and what might be coming of course this week that i expected to release a report on iran's nuclear weapons program how far might be going some information is already being leaked to the press and we've definitely heard a lot of the rhetoric heating up here but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov came out and said that this would be a huge mistake if there is

a military strike this could have devastating consequences so in that case do you think that russia can be a balancing force to so we don't get ourselves involved into another military conflict. well it's an interesting case. there's no doubt that the i.e.e.e. is full of out with a report that says iran was working on reputation final stages of a nuclear bomb is well is this enrichment activity they been documenting but they've been advancing and the russians have been saying lever off who i've talked about this says the strategy nippy americans are following is not going to succeed in preventing or we're reaching this nuclear goal on the option of a military or military option. lever of belief but i hope so also those are the most sought near descartes was just recently retired has been very outspoken say he

a military attack poland everyone's nuclear facilities would be catastrophic for israel that's what purpose credit was science since so many americans thinking about this case say a nuclear option but surely a military option is likely to make the situation worse not better so we're going to be going to him again of a struggle here because it's pretty clear that despite the best efforts of same chickens they are not successful in slowing sufficiently arinze nuclear march tell them they're only here for one for you only other hand in military options as a symbol of very good option either and so will be your struggle again i want to ask you are when it comes to the cooperation between russia and the u.s. in terms of intelligence are fighting international terrorism do you think about something that often gets downplayed especially in political circles here in washington. i think too much and in washington we take for granted whatever russia

does and imagine that they do it either because britain was its own reward or that they do in you simply because it's in their own interest and not noticed that they can turn that speck in you know to the right or to the left i think the intelligence cooperation that russia provided immediately after nine eleven president bush was critical in the early stages of the war against al qaeda an attack on the toppling of the taliban who left kynaston because obviously russia know a lot about of. i think the ongoing effort called cooperative efforts between the us and russia in preventing nuclear weapons and materials rolling in so the hands of terrorists it's been a huge success it's been a joint effort it's unclear involvement reasonable amount of american money a lot of cooperative activity but a lot of professional writing on the part of the russians so the no longer go under if that reduction program i think it's been

a great success and i think on several other fronts kate for example supplying american troops who are fighting every day and in afghanistan as a relationship with pakistan as a person it's now the case that half of all the supply lines are coming to the northern route and that's a route that russia could turn on to control not right i think that it's not that russia is or always doing what the u.s. would prefer but certainly not right it's not that russia is understanding its national interest or that they get part of the cult of the u.s. that's not correct that it is that russia has many choices it powerfully impact the ability of americans to secure in advance our own interests and so what this report that i was referring to guns is trying to were telephone arms and you may ask what are the things that us could do to reduce russia to things we needed to do and to discourage him doing things with all of our ground want to thank you so much for

joining us and you know we'll see if any of the rhetoric here changes or if any post november twenty travel actions will see suddenly republicans don't like this reset thanks so much. thank you. that's not a concert i don't work then you shouldn't eat those comments on the presidential candidate our school time award and happy hour we'll be happy to know the toilet is no longer a weapon plus you have focal beaver's are causing if you thought the white house. was. going to believe the left in it. was like what a protester nobody seems to know. but never a proper sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly

dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you know here's the part of it and realize that everything is all. part of the big picture.

i'm lauren lyster. all right it's time for tides reward is night gets to michele bachmann at the g.o.p. presidential candidates spoke here in washington today the family research council the conservative right wing christian organization founded in one thousand nine hundred eleven the congresswoman talked about the need to cut funding to social

safety net programs right here in the u.s. . our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves that revives the principle of a national work ethic that we have sadly forgotten that means and honesty with days work for an honest days pay self-reliance means if anyone will not work neither should he eat. so michelle thinks that if you don't work you showed me oh there you go some of the things we come out of this woman's mouth are truly amazing but i think that it's very drink a bit of a right wing world view which is that if people are poor and starving it's some how by a fault of their own or because they're lazy because they're not willing to work but that's simply not the case period we clearly have over nine percent unemployment here in the us millions of people are struggling to get by they've lost their jobs who no fault of their own but in michelle's twisted logic let them start we have social safety nets in the united states to protect those in society that are are

the most vulnerable and right now it happens to be a lot of people millions of americans are getting by right now on food stamps on unemployment benefits and other social services and social wants to cut those people off when they need help the most in the worst great recession since the great depression it's unbelievable but michelle's views on social programs kind of fall in line with most republicans they go after social services for the poor the disenfranchised rather all this cloak of personal accountability that they largely stay away from the social programs like medicare and social security the ones that benefit those who vote in the highest numbers the elderly so it's a clear cut the poor are much easier target you know made michel miss the new updated census data released today that shows that forty nine point one million americans are now living in poverty i know not all those people are just lazy they simply can't find jobs and the current hundred twelfth congress which michel is a member of but i haven't really shown any interest in creating those jobs republicans in the house and senate have blocked all attempts to pass president obama's jobs bill even when democrats broke

a jobs bill down into smaller parts offering up money for bridges and roads are players the g.o.p. still said no they also blocked efforts to send more money to states to hire teachers cops and firefighters so michelle how american supposed to find jobs when congress is doing nothing to help job creation even if americans are lucky enough to find words wages are stagnant and the shell apparently has a problem with the minimum wage. so you're saying that the minimum wage is one of those regulations you take a look at you try to eliminate it well what i'm saying is that i think that we need to look at all regulations whatever whatever laws are inhibiting job growth that's what we need and the minimum wage is one of them. all regulations george i think every department we have has too much expansion of government and so what we need to do is tamp that down so that the american people can keep more of what they may. have backed is that until michel and other lawmakers get serious about addressing income inequality rising unemployment here in the u.s.

we're just going to continue to see more americans suffering so to say that those people that are poor and suffering they're suffering because they don't want to work well that's really just an insult to those people so we're saying those that are suffering should eat less they work are giving congresswoman michele bachmann tonight's full time work. our guys thanks for happy hour and joining me this evening is our producer jenny churchill and alex knights all reporter and blogger for think progress dot org thanks for joining me guys. so a couple of months ago we reported that they were going to put all those really disgusting cigarette or labels on cigarette box is but it's about how companies are suing. america's largest tobacco companies are fighting back against federal drug administration regulations they're suing the f.d.a.

over some extremely graphic warning labels that they want to put snacks over the package of cigarettes the company's going to be forced to use by two thousand and twelve they say that the federal government it's their argument in this case was that it's inhibiting their freedom of speech and guess what the judge ruled in their favor so there aren't going to put those on what you think yeah i coburn favor this i mean i'm as anti-smoking anti-cancer as anyone else but what about cancer of the eyes i don't want to go into a convenience store even if i'm sort of smoker and have to look at these horrible disgusting awful images i kind of agree with a book about a couple of weeks so you're not saying that you agreed to buy companies because they should be forced to try to sell a product where they're automatically advertising how horrible and dangerous the product is on the packaging just because you don't have one have to look at it this is like second hand smoke or ugly i mean it's. i mean i have to say if if the government really believes that you know this is that bad then they should make it

a legal you know if they're going to go and be like oh you can't read for yourself and see that this is going to kill you we have to show you because you're not smart enough to be able to read and understand then ok well then maybe they need some other actions i'm by no means saying they should do that but it's just such a ridiculous premise was pretty interesting you know because i mean a lot of other countries especially in europe everywhere they have these huge graphic warning labels but here is freedom of speech without thinking doing. kids you know that until the day chemical toilets were on the bed we nations where it's apparently nobody i can't quite figure out why i was on the list today really figure out why chemical to run the list. i don't know the official reason what i'm assuming is that looks a lot like the toilets in an airplane and they are quite dangerous. thrown it out there i just love all things like there are you know like nuclear weapon in chemical weapons other kinds of firearms and toys yeah i mean you know the obvious

joke you made there is that some toilets are weapons of mass destruction after being used of course but i'm guessing they were exporting the used toilet so i think in this case the bureaucracy scores a victory for common sense and it was like a defense contractor wanted to export a certain toilet right that they made for the military ones that we put in the tanks and then turns out they were just on this horrible horrible deadly munitions . just interesting think about it i wonder wonder how it got on there someday we'll find out. but let's take a look at a new documentary that's coming out it's about anonymous calls that we are legion here's a quote. you could argue that the most powerful people on earth per bunch of nameless faceless seventeen to thirty five year olds it's like the. story one forces started in july fourth where we don't store food or we don't give orders. there's more all right so this is being produced by the layout media directed by documentarian brian

knappenberger and it's going to be released next year. because it's about time right it's only it was only a matter of time till somebody tried to do a documentary with all the people wearing guy fawkes masks yeah i mean i think the person making this documentary needs to be a little concerned and this might be why we haven't seen one yet but if they don't like it yeah you could have been c.e.o. if you make a documentary about a nun and they don't like the hackers will go after young girls just like i mean and all of this started we're going to get a whole history from the beginning of two thousand to the end of two thousand and eleven spanning three years you know like i feel like they're already winning a lot of them been rounded up by the f.b.i. so they probably had to move quickly to get the documentary into theaters before they were totally disparate so you don't think i don't really think maybe like ten years from now we should have been like on the back you know well no yeah yeah you have to do it now but but the issue that you run into is that there's supposedly is

no leader there's no spokes person you know it's just a club or it of like minded people so then how are we for sure when i watch the documentary that's really representative and also there's been a lot of divisions happening lately on and on there's been a lot of videos that have been put out saying that they were going to do something and then those things haven't happened or they've come on said no no we're not doing that so i think there's a lot of confusion going around right now i'm working there it's very interesting to see how this actually works out you know it's no wonder a last story so the white house has the saying where if enough people sign a petition then they have to address the question obviously this always happens with the pot questions and now it's happening with everyone's favorite topic which is you have i mean five thousand people home signed a petition asking about u.f.o.'s and the white house responded today saying they have no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or the extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race and addition there is no credible information to suggest any evidence is being hidden from the public

. come on we have to look first we have to be very clear this is the same government that we just told you was. in the process of trying to be like oh we don't have to for your freedom of information act requests. and so you they don't insist what primary everybody wants to know i don't know i think this is really cool like i believe them i don't see why they would like what they would have to respond to petition if they were trying to cover up something that would be easiest way to cover it up after a time there is live once it's over five thousand people that if they could they could give some you know. some exactly what they put out there like i was actively searching like we set up said he we set up this well i have to when i was really upset because they're actively searching and got something right where you have to look for streetlights not knowing what might be the case like in some of the movies where even the president himself is you know that's the aries exist anymore it might be and i have to get ready thanks for joining me right after provided so thanks for tuning in they can come back tomorrow julian fantastic to join us to

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