i gave her a little piece of my mind and apparently she didn't really like that one bit because her friends over at the website big journalism took issue with what i had to say and they cut decided to try and smear me p.j. salvatore wrote on his website the propagandist reporter also refers to herself in the third person plural we were referencing liberals and liberal reactions see in media if you're going to attempt to paint yourself as an anchor at least have the wit to not disclose your partiality and take care to pronounce a subject name correctly so all right let me start by responding to where p.j. did get me i did it mispronounce dana's last name and i apologize for that i guess to somebody who's had my name is pronounced my entire life but something about to be able to shake off pretty easily but hey that's just me and it's really pretty insignificant and quite a distraction from my actual commentary about what dana had to say when it comes to the other claims clearly p.j. is ever actually watch this show because if he had he would know that i don't portray myself as an anchor this is a political commentary show i freely and openly share my personal opinion with the

audience and i'm pretty sure that anybody that's watched the show for more than two minutes would easily get that i'm the host of an opinion show therefore i share my opinion just like data last as on her radio show or on c.n.n. for that matter but she's entitled to do and i'm entitled to criticize that opinion now i could go even further into how they try to twist my commentary against lashon claim that i live but i think that our web team did a pretty damn good job of that so you guys should go read their takedown on r t website net i want to respond to some viewers who seem to think that i have an agenda except for they can't really decide which one it is alan becker commented on facebook i can deal with the attacks on the president but i'm perplexed r.t. does not go after the absolute worst offenders for the american people in middle class and that is the g.o.p. now this one i'm a little confused by because they do spend day after day after day going after both the social and economic policies of republicans but i think are dangerous for america but a. some people think that i'm too hard on the president too easy on the republicans

others seem to feel exactly the opposite way in response to a tweet we set out that we're looking to hire somebody a screaming bird tweeted at us at the low to show it would be great if your show was less biased and protective of the current administration so first time too hard on the president now i'm too easy on him which one is the guys that i think that some people are just genuinely confused because i don't fall into a perfect little left right paradigm the most people on t.v. do so let me just assure everybody that watches that i call people out when they deserve it democrat or republican period so i have a little faith and finally i want to respond to holy ghost trance twelve who tweeted at us and response to a topic that we covered on happy hour where c.-span was getting pranked during their call in section he said at the low to show and at jenny churchill please do a calling to call in section that would be effing great i want to hear from all alone as stockers. yeah we're really not so sure of the whole call and idea but we're definitely working out ways to make the show more interactive while we are

live on air so stay posted for developments on that that's of my ranting today but i will be back with more as usual later in the week. well today the life and legacy of martin luther king jr is being honored across the country including the occupy wall street it's a first for the movement which began four months ago tomorrow that will be the anniversary of the stated goal for the holidays to continue martin luther king's quest for economic justice through nonviolent actions are doing so with the help of the newly launched group occupy the dream just made up of african-american church groups affiliated with the occupy wall street movement so in their words they hope to quote launch a new campaign for economic justice inspired by the legacy of dr martin luther king jr. it is.

now to kick off their mission they called for a national day of action today on their web site to focus attention on the gross injustice visited upon the ninety nine percent by the financial elite and their day of action consists of just helping out a local soup kitchen but rather protesting at federal reserves across the country in sixteen cities across the nation including new york chicago washington d.c. and san francisco protesters march to the federal reserve to shed light on the institutions role in creating inequality between rich and poor here in the u.s. so earlier today new york protesters marched from an african-american burial ground where hundreds of slaves are buried in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and ended up at the federal reserve bank just a few blocks away another group protested at the bank of america and our cameramen were there.

a. nationally occupy the dream is calling for a moratorium on foreclosures and an increase in funding for the pell grants and we've highlighted many times on the show the ways in which the financial crisis has hit the african community african-american community the hardest unemployment and african-american community in the united states is it fifteen point eight percent while white employment hovers about seven point five percent in comparison and those are just the official numbers not the u.s. not the u. six figures now according to the center for responsible lending african-american and latino borrowers are almost twice as likely to have been impacted by the crisis than whites but even with the force with which the financial crisis has hit the black community the occupy movement has admitted we have problems courting that so occupy the dream is hoping to change that throwing the weight of african-american churches behind

a movement that they believe fights for the economic justice the martin luther king jr stood for when he was alive. or seeing a new round of government scrutiny and warnings surrounding the natural gas industry and hydraulic fracturing last december for the first time the e.p.a. linked underground water pollution to fracking since then they've also stepped in and also backed out of providing clean water to residents gimmick and surveying it and then just last week they wrote a series of letters to the state department saying that new york needs to go much further and it's regulation plans to safeguard drinking water environmental areas and gas industry workers so it looks like some moves are obviously being made to counter the dangers of fracking but are they enough joining me from our studio in new york is joachim been a reporter for sapient reporter for pro publica and bill mckibben writer environmentalist ad resident scholar at middlebury college in vermont he's also the founder of three fifty dot org the international climate change campaign. donovan thank you both for joining us tonight and what can i want to start with you because

you just read this piece and detailing what the e.p.a. was writing to the state department about new york city about the changes of the regulations that they want to give us more details there. yes so the department of environmental can conservation in new york has received about twenty thousand some public comments on a plan that took them a couple of years to produce on how to better oversee hydraulic fracturing natural gas drilling in the marcellus shale and the e.p.a. submitted comments for it last wednesday and among the things that they. one of the things that they focused on the most it seemed was how the state intends to take care of the massive amounts of waste water that hydraulic fracturing creates as you probably know in order to tap into the market shell which is a large deposit of natural gas that sits underneath much of new york drillers have

to blast water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground to loosen up the gas formations and that water has to go somewhere after it comes back out of the wells and what's happening in pennsylvania is that the waste water has been going to sewage treatment plants but the sewage treatment plants don't really have the technology to detect or certainly remove many of the chemicals that are in the wastewater the best they can really do is dilute it with regular sewage and then it goes right back out into bodies of drinking water. and in some areas like in near pittsburgh on the river there was a spike in a mineral that's typically found in drilling waste wire that made it very unsafe to do certain household things with the water and you know that it's been it's been a it's been a large problem in pennsylvania and now in new york struggling to figure out how to do it and the. he pointed out that the sewage plants aren't really the ideal places

to take this water to ford for treatment they also pointed out a number of problems with how natural gas drilling workers are being protected from you know radioactivity that's that's been in the mud in the soil and things like that that get dragged up along the drilling process and there's been some issues also with the kinds of fracturing that the d.c. intends to allow in environmentally sensitive areas right so it seems like you know at least the e.p.a. is getting involved here at least they're writing letters and mentioning it earlier last year excuse me for the first time they admitted that fracking can be tied to put in the water so it seems like they're starting to be publicly critical of this practice but bill i'm curious you know what your perspective here is is it nice that the government finally is wanting to have an opinion here or do you think that it's still not enough well this look this fight finally starting to really heat up

there's been terrific activists across the eastern u.s. who have been coming at this hard in the last year and the other side is coming in and heard to really the most important story of the last week wasn't anything about science it was the fact that. the fracking industry has pumped about a million one of the thirty million dollars in lobbying money to albany giving in spreading it around to new york politicians you know albany that's a heck of a lot of money it's exactly the same thing that's happening on congress around keystone or other kinds of oil drilling or other kinds of cool stuff it's this i'm going fight everywhere now between to plus a fuel industry that wants at these kind of extreme energy and will do anything they can to get it and the rest of us who are trying to preserve some semblance of the planet the one we were born into. so then why can't when you look at you know some of these letters that the e.p.a. writes do they say who they think should be responsible do they say that it's going

to be up to the water treatment plants they say that some of the responsibility should lie in the hands of the natural gas companies. well the e.p.a. appears to be asserting a little bit more of its authority in the states decisions to use sewage treatment plants to treat wastewater for example i mean they've said that they need to be more involved in that process and the way that it works now is that the state is supposed to be working closely with the sewage treatment plant operators to make sure that their plants can actually handle what's in this wastewater the e.p.a. is saying that they need to now be more involved in those decisions so i think in addition to what you've pointed out which is that you know the they finally came to the conclusion last year that drilling in wyoming has led to contamination of groundwater and they've also released announced last year last summer that they

were going to be developing their own rules on wastewater disposal and so we're starting to see them i think do what many environmental activists have been looking for for some time which is to step in you know really dig in and do their own independent investigations and develop rules based on their findings and i think that the series of letters that they wrote to the new york state environmental department is is emblematic of that effort problem is of course this bill as you pointed out is that there's a lot of money being thrown around when it comes to this topic right so who is going to if you were going to listen to all the money that's coming their way are they going to listen to a letter from from the e.p.a. you know i'm curious to some scientists out there have said that we should put a complete stop we should halt fracking until there's more information until you can really assess the effects would you have. you had your way wanted to be completely stopped. well yeah look fracking is one example of these

extreme energy technologies that we need to stop normally because of their deleterious effects local meet but because we cannot afford to be pouring more carbon into the atmosphere that's just where we are now and you're right it's the money that's the issue we're all gathering back in washington a week from today january twenty third as congress reconvenes they'll be hundreds of people in referee uniforms out there on capitol hill blowing the whistle on trying groups. calling a penalty on the fact that these guys take money from these companies and then make those decisions in fact if you go to blow the whistle on congress dot org you can sign up to help it's instead screes it's a kind of a runaway train it already pretty much you know no one in the state of pennsylvania there are fracking rigs all over the place new york state's kind of the next stand

we'll find out what governor cuomo has made of you know he's a guy who's considering national campaign probably in two thousand and sixteen and talked a lot about as a potential presidential candidate clearly this will be the issue on which the nation's environmentalist will judge him because it's going to be key issue in new york you know looks like it's going to have data i have to cut you off as five points like as we're out of time but i want to thank you both for joining us tonight and they'll hopefully we'll see you suing a referee in a while when you're here and they say thanks so much it's going to take care. i still had to fight back for the year be presidential nomination race today but there have to take comfort because his life for a time where i'll explain why this tamala and unhappy our going to the granny and grandpa even franker is plus the golden globes last night in l.a. the other celebs actually died on told me to have a. stories and more consistent. there

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you. believe we can see a little military strategy or just more of the same broken promise new vision for the pentagon is a bit saving. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time war and tonight it goes to a jon huntsman the former utah governor ambassador to china and his presidential campaign today huntsman never quite got fire with the g.o.p. grout see during the debates he sometimes came across as too rational on issues like global warming and foreign policy and well we all know the g.o.p. base is really looking for a sane candidate this year and that is going away news conference today in south carolina john had these words of wisdom for all of us. this race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the american

people and not worth the this critical time for in our nation's history wait what this campaign season is too negative i mean come on john you've been in politics long enough to know that running for office is a contact sport you play to win but what's funny about huntsman's observation that well he's just as guilty of running these negative ads attacking fellow republicans as the rest of them including mitt romney the man that he decided to endorse today in fact huntsman staff was really busy last night scrubbing away all the attacks on mitt romney from their campaigns website to get rid of all of the evidence you can actually search a site today and find nothing but lucky for us there is the internet and plenty of clips of jon huntsman being nasty to others here's a john going after mitt on flip flopping earlier. i don't know that he can go on to be president obama given and given his record i mean when there is a question about whether you're running for the white house or running for the

waffle house you've got a real problem with the american people. out so you think that mitt is running to be president of the waffle house now huntsman is also guilty of releasing those negative attack ads that he called offensive today like this one. you approach toward in the fall do you wish you didn't support it now that we're in the winter. no charge for the right thing to do i'm not interested in failing individual situations but wealthy people. so i believe that since roe v wade has been the law for twenty years that we should sustain and support it i'm in favor of having the supreme court overturning roe v wade. so there is have a gymnast kept falling off the balance the while romney tried to defend his record on certain subliminal messages the g.o.p. voters are really not all that subtle but here's another attack ad from huntsman and this one includes one of my favorite lines i'm very much very much and

adamantly opposed to tax increases at the head of the bay state winds to their name was. just raised the after feet after that attack. you can't be a perfectly lubricated weathervane on the important issues of the day whether it's libya whether it's the debt ceiling whether it's the discussion around the key city building in ohio. a perfectly lubricated weathervane and what the hell is that sound good advise the with by a doctor's office but let's move on as you can see huntsman is a hypocrite he stood before the media today cried about the negative personal attacks in this presidential race but he had no problem going negative on his fellow candidates himself yet when he sees the writing on the wall that he will not be the nominee he tries to take the high road so sorry john you're just as guilty as everyone else of the dirty politics and that's why we're giving you tonight's told on award.

our guide to time for happy hour and joining me this evening our producer jenny churchill and alex sites while the assistant editor at think progress or hey guys i don't know if you watched them last night or not but the golden globes are on and kind of poked fun a little bit as what you call the the excess of hollywood take a listen. joy. in the. cold i hope took you long to finish. that's right the attendees covered with edible gold flakes which retail at one hundred thirty five dollars a gram do you think hollywood is making a bad example i mean i don't personally have was that far bothered but i think the best example here it's a little too on the nose i mean this pastry chef supposedly worked months to come

up with this and his genius idea with all this money is gold for the golden globes like come on you can do a little bit of. gold plating on is there nothing creative about that i think it's a little ridiculous that like when so many people are struggling hollywood's just eating gold i mean it is a little absurd and also i have to say it does but actually there are more absurdities to be found within the awards last night in terms of the rules and the and everything else just like i was in there because i would like collecting every flake i could find back you know. it's just seems like a like a metaphor. it just seems like a metaphor come to life it's like but it's like the ninety nine percent caricature of rich people like washing gold flicks with their pay and it's like the people at the bankers that stood there drinking their champagne about the occupy wall street people it's like they got together and were like how can we be unbelievably offensive. all right let's move on to our next story. well apparently

you know we don't normally think of binge drinkers as young people college kids but i think all over people elderly also might be drinking like anyway. what do you like to do in your free time oh i like. do most anything play with animals mostly. because kind of a hobby. thank . god thank you. it's a new as demand that shows the binge drinking is actually more of a problem the people thought it was in the us and basically big drinking means on average eight drinks number of eight drinks and so the age group with the most binge drinkers are eighteen to thirty four year olds but the age group that binge drinking most often is sixty five plus. i've been concerned about this for

a while actually that you know betty white was setting such a bad example i mean you know the most impressionable people in this country are clearly the elderly when you're retired though it's like you have you can binge drink more often because you're retired like what else are they supposed to do really kind of makes me looking forward to retirement it really sounds like going back to college like intriguing is up sex is up i know older people it's like living in the dorm is like you know what you're doing that you need these are all of the other guys the as elderly like retirement centers are nursing homes or actually trying to get liquor license you can serve alcohol in their retirement i don't see why not you know what's to stop you enjoy the later years of your life and who's away that's my really valuable healthy advice ok let's talk about. we've seen a lot of negative attack ads on huntsman. about them even though he totally took part in all of this you know we've seen a lot thrown at mitt romney too but these come from third parties from super pacs

and the whole idea. their greed was only matched by their willingness to do anything. and profit nothing spared nothing mattered but grief. this film is about one such reader and it's for mitt romney who became c.e.o. was being kept out of the day of the company was formed its mission to reach massive rewards for himself and his investors. so the whole thing as a third party is do it's not the candidate themselves and so elizabeth warren and scott brown are actually considering maybe telling third parties not to. but the whole point is they don't have to listen right right if they stop doing it at request of the candidates that could potentially be illegal because it could be construed as. ok with you because what i love the other hypocrisy here is scott brown going after elizabeth warren like you're running these attack ads when they totally started on the campaign's backing him and they like their first big ad from

crossroads was accusing elizabeth warren of being in the pocket of wall street which is much of it was the most of it was she actually called her an elitist and an attack last week by saying by you know condemning these ads when they're about you but letting them go all the other times you're being such an elitist and it will even. if he says hypocrisy you know something that only the elites. are guys together of that i don't know or that at this point that's a thanks for tuning in thanks for the comeback on wednesday we are not going to have a shot of margarita scheduled maintenance in the meantime you know what to follow us on line on facebook on twitter and on the tube and coming up next game.

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welcome to our team where hey with the news twenty four hours a day straight to our top story now russia has circulated a new draft of its resolution on syria to the u.n. calling on all sides to halt the violence council members will discuss the text later on tuesday but western diplomats say fails to condemn president assad's crackdown on protesters strongly enough meanwhile as artie's sara firth reports syrians caught up in the ongoing conflict live in constant fear for their lives. it's been less than a month since we were last in homs in that time the situation's become even more dangerous and the pressure on the people living here. were people numbers. having the tragic death of foreign journalists killed just here in homs recently served in yet another reminder the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the other way to get.