if. it's time for you said it i read it right 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 i want to respond a viewer who watched our interview with republican presidential candidate and former governor buddy roemer mr sash three one three said on you tube 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 now i think of us we are really hit 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 get 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 tax reform have moved very sharply to the right even the g.o.p. darling that ronald reagan wouldn't be extreme enough 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 next and respond to a viewer who watched my fireside friday on the u.s. drone program joshua wilcox tweeted makes excellent point cia drone program is secret and the only official info that leaks is what white house wants you to know 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 now 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 of the government wants us to have the information the highlights the successes of the drone program or hear about the death of anwar 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 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 alona immortal technique is one of my greatest inspirations because he has the courage to expose the truth of course he's just a man but 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 so look forward to having him back on the show in the future as if my ranting today but as usual i'll be back with more later in the week. now on last friday's show we spoke with environmental activist bill mckibben in 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 sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue. and climate environmental activists were joined by religious leaders and nobel peace prize winners to tell the obama administration that they shouldn't go forward with the seven billion dollar trans 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 pipeline 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. the pipeline will produce over three hundred forty. seven projects funded. by private industry to produce something really. stable source of energy but. it's now it's like the opposition to the pipeline environmental 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 in the 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 if the upcoming election proves to be difficult could 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 revisions 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 once again that he might care more about getting elected than 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'd say that it's doubtful and don't forget this is one decision that 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 putin 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 a 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 at bay join me to discuss this is graham allison director of the belfer center for science and international affairs at harvard's kennedy school and a 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 and 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 really said said commentary but don't say we're into are silly season a campaign is because and mostly what you became the i don't say. it was wrong now graham you recently wrote a piece entitled ten reasons why russia matters so we'll get into specifics but first give us a broad overview. well i did actually hear your intro got to the right point that the if you look at the boehner 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 mujhe lee to american national interests that is russia's choice that it's easier to do have to do y.

and big impacts on the security and well being of the u.s. so just a quick is going to make it fun so which nation over the last twenty years has done the most to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other nations i guess we're just waiting we're equating the republican party here and say but look ok i'll give you four questions and you continue to have its own idea ok answer the grass and i don't but i don't see to which nation is the most to prevent loose nukes falling in the hands of terrorists third question which nation is an adorable and gas to global energy markets. oil and gas that actually impacts the price that americans pay at the pump for the gasoline for their cars and any other. and next which nation is actually providing the most vital pipeline of supplies to the hundred thousand american troops fighting in

afghanistan which is not a surprise here but the answers russia russia russia and russia was at peace i had a political lesson which says there's two powerful reasons why russia matters 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.a.e.a. has fully come out with a report that says that iran was working on that weaponization final stages of

a nuclear bomb as well as this enrichment activity that day i.e. he has been documenting that they've been advancing and the russians have been saying lever off who i've talked to about this says the strategy that the americans are following is not going to succeed in preventing or when reaching this nuclear goal line the option of a military on a military option. lever of believes but so also does lay hold of the most sun meir dagan who just recently retired has been very outspoken say he a military attack on iran's nuclear facilities would be catastrophic for israel that's what the creator of those sciences so many americans thinking about this case say a nuclear option or show you a military option is likely to make the situation worse not better so we're going

to be in a in a bit of a of a struggle here because it's pretty clear that despite the best efforts of sanctions they are not successfully slowing sufficiently arinze nuclear march down the down the here football field on the other hand the military option doesn't see a very good option either and so will be your struggle again i want to ask you when it comes to the cooperation between russia and the u.s. in terms of intelligence fighting international terrorism do you think about something that often gets downplayed especially in political circles here in washington. i think to have been in washington we take for granted whatever russia does and imagine that they do it either because virtue is its own reward or that they're doing it simply because it's in their own interest and not notice that they can turn that spigot you know to the right or to the left i think the intelligence

cooperation that russia provided immediately after nine eleven president bush said it was critical in the early stages of the war against al qaeda and the tap the toppling of the taliban in afghanistan because obviously russia know a lot about against him i think the ongoing effort cold cooperative efforts between the u.s. and russia in preventing nuclear weapons and materials falling in to the hands of terrorists has been a huge success it's been a joint effort it's in involved a reasonable amount of american money a lot of cooperative activity but a lot of professional activity on the part of the russians so the no mugger cooperative thirty reduction program i think has been a great success and i think on several other fronts to take for example supplying american troops who are fighting every day and in afghanistan as the relationship with pakistan as worsen 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 join on it can turn up so 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 of its national interest or that they are at the end of all to the u.s. that's not correct but it is that russia has many choices that powerfully impact the ability of americans to secure in advance our own interests and so what this report that i was was referring to does is try to identify noms and then ask what are the things the u.s. can do to induce russia to do the things we need them to do and to discourage him doing things we don't want to get 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's thousand and twelve elections will see suddenly republicans do like this reset thanks so much. thank you. that's not to come tonight if you don't work then you shouldn't eat those comments and

a presidential candidate are told time award and happy hour you'll be happy to know that a toilet is no longer a weapon plus u.f.o. believers are causing it to problem with the white house cleaning them up. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that 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 going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours and i was it's a same francis in lynnwood 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 in an

emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. to be soon which bright. moon a song from phones to. me starts on t.v. don't come. all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight's guest michele bachmann

now the g.o.p. presidential candidate spoke here in washington today the family research council a conservative right wing christian organization founded in one thousand nine hundred one so listen the congresswoman talk about the need to cut funding to social safety net programs right here in the u.s. . our nation needs to stop doing to 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 an honest steve day's work for it honesty's 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 those or you know some other things like about of this woman's about are truly amazing but i think that it's very indicative of a right wing world view which is that if people are poor and starving it's some how by 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 currently have over nine percent

unemployment here in the us millions of people are struggling to get by they've lost their jobs due to 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 the most vulnerable and right now that 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 shraddha all this cloak of personal accountability and 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 that the poor are a 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 twelve congress which michel is a member of well they 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 brought the jobs bill down into smaller parts offering up money for bridges and roads or 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 work wages are stagnant and michelle parent has a problem with the minimum wage she you're saying that the minimum wage is one of those regulations you take. to 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 ones are inhibiting job growth paths what we need to earn the minimum wage is one of them. all regulations george i think every department we have just too much expansion of government and so what we need to do is tamp that down so the american people can

keep more of what they may the fact is that until michelle 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 american suffering so to say of 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 for saying of those that are suffering should ease allez they work we're giving congresswoman michele bachmann tonight still time work. our guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our two producer jenny churchill and alex sites 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 it's cigarette or labels on cigarette boxes but the tobacco 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 back over the package of cigarettes the company's going to be forced to use by two thousand and twelve they say that the federal govt 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 have to put those on what you think you know i kind of move favor this i mean i'm as anti-smoking anti-cancer as anyone else but what about cancer of the eyes but i don't want to go into a convenience store even if i'm sort of a smoker and have to look at these horrible disgusting awful images. kind of agree with the about a couple of bits that are not saying that you agree to the back of companies because there 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 secondhand smoke or ugly images. i mean i have to say if if the government really believes that you know this is that bad then they should make it illegal 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 to take 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 the freedom of speech without doing. did you know that until today chemical toilets were on the munitions list. apparently nobody i can't quite figure out why i was on the list today maybe figure out why chemical toilet are on the list. i don't know the official reason what i'm assuming is that it looks

a lot like the toilets in an airplane and they are quite dangerous turbulence thrown it out there i just have all things like there are you know like nuclear weapon in chemical weapons other kinds of firearms and then toilets yeah i mean you know the obvious joke to be made there is 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 this 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 that they were just on this horrible horrible deadly munitions it's just interesting think about it and wonder wonder how it got on there someday we'll find out. let's take a look at a new documentary that's coming out about anonymous called we are legion here's a clip. you could argue that the most powerful people on earth are bunch of nameless faceless seventeen to thirty five year olds it's like that story one more

since the start of ritual voices what we don't sure why we don't get more and. more all right so this is being produced by the illuminant media directed by documentarian brian knappenberger and it's going to be released next year. because it's about time 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 that person making this documentary needs to be a little concerned and this might be why we haven't seen one yet what if they don't like it yeah you would have been c.e.o. if you make a documentary about a nun and they don't like the hackers will go after your guest yeah that's what i like i mean anonymous started we're going to get the 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're totally disappeared so you know i think you know personally i think maybe

like ten years from now we should have been like look back you know well not do it now yeah yeah you have to do it now but but the issue that you run into is that there's supposably is no leader there's no spokesperson you know it's just a clump of like minded people so then how are we for sure when we watch a documentary that's really representative. and also there's been a lot of divisions happening lately and on there have 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 out and said no no no we're not doing that so i think there's a lot of confusion going around right now i would think there is going to be interesting to see how this actually works out move on to our last story so the white house has the saying we're people sign a petition and they have to address the question obviously this always happens with the pot questions and now it's been with everyone second favorite topic which is you have i mean five thousand people signed a petition asking about u.f.o.'s and the white house responded today saying that they have no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or that an

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 well 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 fill your freedom of information act requests. and tell you they don't exist what about area fifty one come on everybody wants to know i think this is really cool like i believe them i don't see why they would like go where they want to have to respond to the british and if they were trying to cover up something that would just be the easiest way to cover it up and they have to really have to respond when it's over five thousand people that if they could they could give some you know. some exactly what they put out there like you know we're actively searching like we said upset and we said a lot i have to say when i was really upset because they're actively searching and that's not the right way you have to look for streetlights not knowing what might

be the case like in some of the movies where even the president himself doesn't know that some of the areas in. the end i have to get ready thanks for joining me are about to put it out so thanks for tuning in make you come back tomorrow julian fantastic going to join us to discuss the lamb our g.p.s. tracking case here by the supreme court because speaking of fan appeal our show on facebook follow us on twitter. so anything it's on youtube dot com flash they want to fail and coming up next is an it's. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the wall street they are. ladies and gentlemen you chose to choose to use it to get for example the status of the human experiment. with. business rock music in which it goes to the movies

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longest subsidy pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe with the president made they did in germany ready to flick the switch. it's a race for the rescue funds in greece with politicians scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis r.t. here's what greeks themselves think. and as israel friends a strike on iran and creasing numbers of young israelis turned their backs on joining the army saying their country's two severe concerns. and i'm karen taraji and you're with r.t. broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm.