playing dirty from the windy city to the mile high city police forces are ramping up their efforts to shut down the occupy wall street movement and now oakland's mayor is alluding toward a cordon needed crackdown so will this stop the cars in its tracks or fuel it further. that you can afford to reduce the. will of one of them even when we will have fourteen who are going to do well these seely's sure can maybe that's why the nation's richest counties are located right here in the nation's capital so while the rest of the country tightens its fiscal belt well take a look at the lawmakers and lobbyists for living the high life. plus it's

a game of deal or no deal on the line america's financial future the players twelve members of the super committee but as the clock ticks toward its eleventh hour is a deal even possible at this point and with all the lobbyists influence is this game red and. everybody you are tuned in to our team on this wednesday november sixteenth it's four pm in our studios here in washington d.c. and i christine for sound well they are bruised but not broken occupy wall street protesters kicked out of various occupations around the country including the one where it all started in new york's zuccotti park they say they are not backing down meanwhile they've been taking shifts sense of the park where they have been allowed to return but not to camp backpacks tents and. all banned after protesters were

cleared late monday night early tuesday morning on the orders of new york male mayor michael bloomberg but we want to take a closer look at what's gone on the past few days it wasn't just new york of course as we've been telling you this happened in cities across the country very early this morning about one twenty am it was san francisco police raided three encampments and dismantled tents about sixty people had been camping out there it was a similar situation over the weekend in portland oregon police in riot gear evicted campers at occupy locations there and portland police arrested more than fifty people while in protesters they police use excessive physical violence local authorities say the occupy protest had turned into nothing more than a party to check out these photos these are from overnight in seattle washington this is a photo of a four foot ten eighty four year old woman pepper sprayed in the face this could become the face of the movement now police here obviously using pepper spray with

no discretion as a weapon in their war to clear people out also check this one out a young pregnant woman who was also sprayed now we have another photo this is just protesters in general and we should mention seattle police say they only used pepper spray against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in a quote assaultive behavior toward officers. and finally this photo of a woman being carried away and taken to the hospital i believe that is the photo of the pregnant woman there so it seemed a little strange that all of these a victims of occupy movements around the country happened during the same week many even on the same day most of them were very early in the morning and most included a very large police presence and no access this time even to the media but it couldn't be a cordon it off or right police departments are autonomy us right well maybe not

here's oakland mayor jean quan in an interview with the b.b.c. . i was recently on a conference call it eighteen cities across the country who had been in situation where we started as a political ploy. and that being an encampment that was no longer in show the people who started and what i think you are starting to see is that the occupy wall is looking for the worst. so we are she's on a conference call with eighteen other cities also we are now hearing reports particularly a news article written in the minneapolis top news examiner that wasn't just mayors and city officials that the department of homeland security was also in on this so what's going on here well kevin zeese is an organizer with the october two thousand and eleven movement and he's here to talk about this i know kevin you are with the stop the machine protests i know the movement has done some things with occupy d.c. but let's talk about what's going on here with perhaps and these reports are not

entirely can forget that the better part of homeland security is not only in on this but they're sort of telling these police departments around the country here's what you need to do here's when you need to do it what do you think about this i'm not surprised but i mean this is a the occupy movement which we're part of we were here occupy washington d.c. or got our websites were part of the occupy movement. and i'm not surprised at all this movement as a big threat to the status quo to spread to economic and political elites and. the unusual kind of protest it's not a one day protest march go home where we can wear these clothes march and go home and it's people staying and camping out and taking up space and affecting the political dialogue and so the powers of the respond we talked to a police officer two weeks ago who told us that there were national calls going on describing what to do because this is a new thing got to figure out how to handle it and then the occupier has a challenge because when you have a public space or taking over you attract all the problems of our country homelessness alcoholism addiction mental illness these people are in. not well

taken care of our society and they have nowhere to go and they come to the occupy. and hope to get food and a place to sleep and it's so interesting because it's not like they appeared out of nowhere you know that they didn't exist anymore but to have them in a concentrated area is certainly bringing light to the fact and i've spoken to some organizers of protests around the country who say you know what we don't mind helping them because these people are victims of the system too but it seems that people on the other side that are trying to to change this to dismantle these protests are saying look at these people they're causing violence there you're in a thing on public property you know you know they're trying they're using some of these people to try to win their messaging or we initially actually invited the homeless for dinner and then we started to realize a world problem that we couldn't handle it mental illness and addiction problems are beyond our capability we don't. take form we're required people who stay to participate in our political movement and help build

a community which has been protests and now some are better activists are actually are some of those people have transformed. others have had to leave and so we've been able to control that better but it's not an easy and easy problem that we have to face up to and deal with you i was going to come back and it's not going away people have found their political voice in the market on loser they're going to come but we're going to come back even stronger more sophisticated better we're doing let's talk about this now on one hand you can see why federal agencies might want to tear this movement down certainly one of the tough things that a lot of occupy protesters are critical of is the system is you know the too close for comfort relationship i guess you could say between law street and washington sometimes i'd call corruption because sold over a government to wall street in the blue the elite kind of i only feel qualified so i can see on one hand why they would feel threatened by this but what do they actually have to gain by tearing this protest out why not let you know your people go along with their message and do your thing well i think right now you have this

super committee that's about to issue a report even you start to go there i guarantee you that report will be the. one percenters reported ninety nine percent of reports were about to come up with their own super committee report on friday so you can see that our at our web site and i think that super report comes out congress is going to build a suit even bigger is going to show once again the rich getting off free the military calling the grow and the the brunt of the pain on students and elderly on the impoverished and middle class that's where the pain to be is going to build a stronger so they want to get us out before this because this movement this this report comes out you say on you know you and people here you're going to come back even stronger but d.c. i'm glad to see for a second because this is one of the few places where the relationship between the protesters and police has been pretty good there are still tense out both at freedom plaza where you've been and if you're so square on these people aren't going anywhere and they haven't been asked to go any right so are you are you worried are you concerned that d.c. is next we've actually had threats from several weeks ago from the police that

they're going to force the rules we intentionally called the police and had them come meet with us today because we want to find out with all this going around the country where the things and these things are what are they telling they tell us that right now are they no knowledge of their national calls so that was the first time we've heard that. the national homeland security which i had and then they said that notice is the main d.c. yet and i think that's because in d.c. well it's if we don't last we make about i'm not wildly fierce and so our freedom we are very big ever examine let the police know we consider them part of the ninety nine percent we know they work for the one percent but they're part of the ninety percent of their families and they will be better off in the kind of world we want to create we make a big ever do that every time we see them we make that point over and over again in various ways not to solve the problem but let them know try to reach them on a human even level these kind of revolutions are won when the people who forced the laws for the one percent switched sides and so we on the other side the occupiers need to be very careful to be nonviolent to not not make the police the enemy but

make their bosses the enemy and the very. and so if we do that we will not only give them public support when you're going to police the port because we have to reduce the break the police let them see you go pick sides or the people or the units and the good people people knew me and i should mention it's pretty interesting what's going on i was at my first and square yesterday and a lot of people who have been staying there and by the way that just keeps getting bigger but what they've done is they've moved their tents making more room in case protesters from some of the other movements possibly new york com here because this is one place where they'll say well we have we have some work people right now marching or walking from philadelphia we would have thought if you meet the occupy wall streeters and we're trying to help protest and was and for those who are threatening people and having them work to do so you know the and also more interview wrong you can exactly next week just in time for that super committee reported here as a plan organizer of the october twenty seventh movement kevin zeese thanks so much . well there are many who say this is the beginning of the end for the occupy wall street movement that now that so many of these permanent occupations are no longer

permanent that things will begin to die down but with tomorrow being the two month anniversary of our ws and with some newfound anger a fueling a movement occupy wall street organizers are spending today planning for tomorrow and what they're calling a national day of action plan i'm gathering at sixteen subway stations all around new york city they hope to take their message to the trains were a lot of people by the way ride they plan to end the day in foley square and then marching back to the brooklyn bridge all to celebrate two months protesting what they call a very corrupt system now we've seen these past two months bring people together from all walks of life and among the thousands that have come together to speak out against corporate greed and corruption a former derivatives trader lad who once worked on wall street now he occupies it take a look at his video he captured during that raid in zuccotti park late monday night early tuesday. that is

a little shaky it's hard to see that he was going on but certainly very chaotic there and looks like there may be some tear gas and barbs and the man who took our video joins us now to talk more about it. i guess start out by telling us what was happening in that video that we just saw are the first i want to competition i did not catch you i remember there are are almost immediately i must say if you could look at the right but this was captured by one of the people who was in there. in the kitchen area of the crowded park where those attacks are on monday night now specifically like you but you want resting like not issues what is a movie going to do next that was a good option in the context that we are certain our ability to conduct some. of these are completed we commence. i'm going to point out michigan for those people who actually saw or were far on the right streets coming out of the crowded park oh yes that the our last night our there was initially skeptical the government has

set up our east and we're all glad you know that it was a credit for the offer to pay us a check the search you if your bags to get you can come in so they're trying to get a situation where people can't get into the park in the parking lot everybody can enter the park so the sense of the trying to do is i just try to stop the bits are the issue think of our modern media is that we can show that so the temple stuff that the big becomes a particle but so why you started the bit in the first prince so this is going to play out over the next few weeks as people are trying to have these meetings and then be stuck and eventually i feel is that the city is going to happen what's happening the beginning of the court as we're trying to suppress the good is going to come up and i'm going to be able to continue to have just a bit and certainly we when when it happened the first few times the protests only grew with more and more people outraged at where they start you know i want to get your take and i do thank you for making that clarification about the video one of the members of your team actually shot at i want to talk to you about what you've been witnessing going on in new york i know our poll just released tuesday from the

sienna college research institute found that even though many people area around new york state believe that the occupy wall street movement lacks a clear message a majority of them also think that protesters should be allowed to stay in public parks around the clock so i'm wondering if you and other people on your team there feel like you are supported by even people who aren't part of the movement. well of this point it's hard to tell who is a supporter and who is a part of the movement i mean the movement since it started officially started sort of speak to months ago has gone included pretty much everybody in it i mean the unions are behind us national unions it's about the common people in the movement is basically founded on the principles of equality it's founded are examples of this unity in the office in the same problems and mutual respect so it was agreed to everybody together bring good our common humanity. it's very much a fight against that because at the end of the day we're obviously but most people see us before we are it's very hard to i should say all these people are terrorists or something like that which is usually the usual narrative and worries are the

corporate media types and put on so we are growing in the fact that matters is not the supporters it's the out there they are us we are the ninety nine percent and i know you have an interesting story you are not like everyone in the neighbors and you actually worked on wall street and now you're protesting against i guess i'm wondering what compelled you to switch from trader to activist i mean my industry is interesting i first i was a little what. i worked on wall street at some point actually means a lot of good money but i was that a part of the one percent let's make that very clear part of the reason i was a part of the one percent i said my is no article but of course article quoting says that to be part of the one percent you should be part of that special network connections and so what you can launch is become part of the one percent you know born into it where you have the right you know you your friends or the right people and so on but one point to put another way i was some saw opposed to the current system is because we discarded says that there's based on greed in us where our unethical behavior is you were doing with our knowledge of power and we based on

a system that doesn't work for the people because we are there there's nobody to talk to see how people of the us and to the positions where they need decisions so we basically have a dysfunctional crony capitalism and to some degree i get to a point now where people i was in the house as the cabbage occasionally going to health care we've been to a point now with the with the with the majority of the population are going to decide. because of the successes or not of got of iraq just real briefly i want to get your reaction respond to those people who say you know what zuccotti park is it has all these rules this movement this is the beginning of the end what's your reaction this real briefly but it's i think there's a lot to be said than actually let's go to some ideas right after the race you know that is you can't fix the most year especially those you can stay but i mean even if they kick us out of the park. all christians are part of you have a meeting that's going to get visible and he doesn't stress and good everything you do against us in your bio is prevention against us and you kind of attempt to stop

us and how the conversation is going to be out in the public to speak for the whole country to see i want to give an example when the attacks that are the current one that and those are you know how to i'm going to have to cut and we are out of time but i do want to thank you for coming on the show today and and please keep us posted i know you have a big day schedule tomorrow argue the wall street legal team member of lad take byrd. yes well one of the issues protesters with the occupy wall street movement are angry about is as i mentioned before that too close for comfort relationship between wall street and washington and never before is that more apparent then with information from the twenty ten census data it appears there have been some changes in the way we do business here in washington the biggest change is how much business is apparently being done here how much money the city now rakes and and how many people are living large as a result now according to these numbers washington d.c. now has the lowest poverty rate in the country surpassing even places like tech

capital silicon valley california but that's not the whole story so i decided to take a look into these numbers and figure out what they actually mean. and the winner is washington the district of columbia where this house is just one of many first in luxury and not for sale but what happens here and here and here played a major role in some changes in the latest u.s. census data the washington d.c. metropolitan area today has the lowest poverty rate in the country at eight point four percent money is a magnet and if people here to make more money that made clear as well in a survey of median household income with four out of the five wealthiest counties also in the d.c. metro area and its surrounding suburbs one of those places is fairfax county virginia home to the national counterterrorism center the cia and it's located less than twenty miles outside of downtown washington so for those who work inside the

city it's a fairly easy commute. and not a bad one when you're coming home to this or this not a foreclosed sign or even a for sale sign in sight big houses are needed after all for those with big bank accounts we're seeing more and more you see your military contractors. i mean washington d.c. about telecom and a lot of wall street firms opening up offices here you had a lot of big issues happen these last four years health care reform financial reform that brought in insurers wall street types all kinds of people who are looking to make the process work for their bottom lines chris freights is the lobbying correspondent for the national journal and says big companies put big bets in washington because they almost always pay off if you're a huge company if you're able to take that ten million dollar investment and find a tax loophole that saves you a billion dollars a year that's a very smart investment. on the streets of washington these have become

a familiar sight and it's no wonder i watch news found there has been a seventy three percent increase in government owned limousines in the last two years from two hundred thirty eight in two thousand and eight to four hundred twelve in two thousand and ten. a few miles south and east it is a different set of wheels you're more likely see the city bus. the people who live here more aware of the other extreme statistic that came out of last year's census that d.c. has the highest rate of those considered coursed of the poor those who live at fifty percent or less of the official poverty level i think is a boundary is a line drawn somewhere. that separates the end of cost you a river here could be that line the proverbial train tracks where life on the other side is almost another world and where many have been pushed to after getting

priced out of their homes. for the rain is going on the day they move in or one out of the room only. even here people are getting pushed further outside if you dictions more and more widespread they used to call the city you know and we were not rich you know what i mean so when they moved us all out i mean the richest coming and come they did transforming the us capital into a microcosm of the nation and the gulf between rich and poor continues to deepen in washington christine for south r.t. . all right so this notion of a system failure not just the message on occupy wall street not just here in d.c. people here in washington are angry that you know they're part of the broken system but they're trying to make some changes namely in the way the government spends its money tasked with making those fixes the super committee six republicans and six

democrats from both the house and senate but the clock is ticking and i know these members or are being extremely tight lipped things are not moving forward as quickly as expected and this is a topic fiscal times staff writer jennifer to paul has been covering been covering the super committee and since its inception know what's going on here why are things taking so long to get done well you know part of the reason is right now there had been these secret behind there were meetings and right after the past two weeks democrats and republicans in the community separately each of their own proposals one is a good one isn't good enough so they're sort of in limbo right here last night to penciling where the co-chairs were saying that republicans have gone as far as they can on revenues this morning the other co-chair patty murray was saying that they're just not going to accept any proposals that have tax cuts for the the wealthiest people in america so there is this it's come down in taxes which have been stumbling blocks before and that's why i wanted to say you know i don't want to oversimplify what's going on here but. this isn't rocket science to some extent

i mean most people in america think that these people were tasked with coming to the table to decide what to cut and where to raise taxes but it seems to me you know and of course we don't know a lot about what's exactly going on by these closed doors but some are saying there is a civil war brewing within the republican party in terms of those on the super committee and some of those more realistic who say we have to allow some tax increases somewhere and those who are going to stick to their guns and say no means no no where what's going on with the republican party what can they do next well i think you're right about the civil war brewing there is in fact that is there are some. you do realize that revenues need to be part of this deficit package and there's just no way other way around it and other republicans are sticking by their entire tax pledge that they gave to americans for tax reform grover norquist and so there is sort of escaping speak there in you're right there is this this battle and so it

really time will tell in the next week you know if republicans can move past that one of the complications here is certainly the outside influence that's going on i mean i would assume that if you're a lobbyist in d.c. these are the people that you want to lobby lobby heaviest because they are going to have a lot of power in terms of what gets cut what gets to say a lot of these members are extremely influential already people like max baucus john john kerry they've been in office for decades now. how can these people be slated with even doing this based on the dollars that have come in i mean it seems to me this is a little bit like the fox guarding the hen house i mean you're right there i mean especially the health care industry they're one of the leading lobbyist on this for you know on the committee but you know i think that the members are committed they know they have to get this in or we have a rising deficit that's getting out of control in. hopefully they can get it done you know within the within the week has it been difficult to cover this john i mean

as a reporter you know you're you're supposed to cover this and it's so tight lipped. and to be honest i don't think really anyone knows what's going on except who's in these meetings even staffers aren't even allowed in the meetings and you know even that there are one or two staffers per person it's very secretive and i know that's been a big concern since the committee started is this. transit you know part about the super committee but i do think one thing is interesting is that you know in the debt deal that we had over the summer and this the government shutdown the stakes this time aren't as high you know we're not going to govern is not going to shut down there isn't going to be a fall it's uncertain really if there's going to be any credit downgrade but you know and i think that's why you know congress has been going up to the eleventh hour so just for people who you know who don't know all the details here one point two trillion is what they need to cut if they don't come to an agreement on what you trillion will be cut anyway is right it's across the board automatic cuts in fifty percent go to defense and fifty percent will go to domestic programs and

that's why we're also seeing a lot of lobbying from defense contractors lockheed martin they're very saying you better come do it just right and right because they they've already had the four hundred billion dollars in cuts from the administration this year if there's more six hundred billion would be a trillion dollars over the next decade which would be catastrophic and you know that is so that to so we have about one weeks ago it will be interesting to see what comes out of this i know a lot of people are wondering. it's pessimistic right now i know that c.n.n. had a call out this morning that was saying about about eighty percent of americans don't think they're going to make it and there's been reports that the white house is sort of bracing for this failure so there are people wondering why can't we all just get along for the fiscal time saying we're just all thanks. well it's time to look at what's ahead on the capital account with more and lesser lauren what do you got cooking for us today christina i have one question for you and if you get the answer then maybe you should come because i'm. if you can think of what would be the similarity between say a pro athlete who's been signed to

a new team and an executive at fannie mae which is the government sponsored enterprise which now the u.s. government controls the treasury controls that taxpayers bailed it out who i know i know i know what they've both make a lot of money you're very close you're on to something but it is more than that but you're going to have to wait and watch the show to find out what exactly we're talking i know you always tease me laura and i are going to get into your thoughts or so christine all right i guess i will anything else briefly that will entice our viewers to stick around yeah you know we've been talking a lot about europe over the last few weeks we're really going to get into the u.s. though because the u.s. has debt to g.d.p. is one hundred percent that is more then france than spain and we've seen the problems that they've faced so we're really going to get into it on our show today and look at the u.s. what's going on right under our nose and we got to go thank you so much for that preview and for all of you who've been watching for more of the stories we covered go to our to dot com slash usa or you tube dot com slash r g america you should

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