changed views on the campaign it seems that gray has taken a cue from mitt romney going back on his original support encouragement to comic person dangerous and a serious sanitation problem now usually that would be a city issue is a city issue the mayor has spoken but no you see for some reason congress wants to get involved here which is actually quite rare as usually they don't really delve into local d.c. governance issues they continue to overlook serious issues in the past like the shocking aids epidemic where one of the highest rates of aids rates of aids and hiv in the entire country disease department of health says that seven percent of d.c. residents between the ages of forty and forty nine are infected which is three times what the world health organization classifies as an epidemic but congress i don't wait on that issue or what about d.c. schools they're amongst the most troubled in the nation that's something that former school chancellor michelle rhee spoke about openly in the film waiting for superman. you wake up every morning and you know that kids are getting a really crappy education right now she think the most the kids are going to. go i

don't think they are i know they are. all right or how about poverty considering that washington d.c. as a state ranks third in the nation for the highest poverty rate at one thousand point nine percent behind only mississippi and louisiana now congress hasn't made that a priority either so why is occupy d.c. and why do occupy d.c. need an entire congressional hearing to talk about it i mean it's pretty civil right it's politics they're all i says been on a tirade since december to figure out what all is happening in mr macpherson square he's requested all communications from the white house from the interior department and the park service so that he can decide for himself is the president is allowing protesters to stay in unsanitary conditions for political reasons and according to the washington examiner committee members will analyze the effects of the occupy movement with what they fact that they've had on the economy on security and on the environment so is the real concern here unsanitary conditions due to rats well d.c.

residents don't seem to think so it's not too bad i mean you go anywhere in the city anywhere in the city there's roads everywhere you go out you know everywhere they can be you know what i was i never knew would be seen that many ways you could tell me and. now i'm sure the mayor knows but somebody should probably inform i says well rats are nothing new but congress actually taking an interest in the city that is very new so i'm going to take the liberty of calling out there i said for merely taking up the d.c. issue because he's sick of how the occupiers portray him in his party so for that their eyes and the rest of congress it's all part of it they're tonight's bull's-eye winners. our guys have time for a happy hour and joining me this evening our team producer jenny churchill and

tanya saw minator reporter and blogger for think progress dot org. hello ladies. ready to talk about some more food and always talk a lot of food a lot of fast food lot of cheese on the show lately right now we're going to talk a little about mcdonald's and mcdonald's if there's one thing that they're usually good at it's marketing it's marketing and branding themselves take a look at this at. the global deal if you told me it was the end of months and of apartments the egg mcmuffin the egg mcmuffin the whole beach experts are calling it the the science behind. ok well it turns out mcdonald's had one big massive fail because they tried to launch this social media campaign and try to get people to tweet with the hash tag meet the farmers in a campaign to draw attention to the brands guarantee a fresh produce unfortunately however. basically they just got a lot of people talking about how they've lost finger and gross and they had to i

think they had to. find a p.r. feels. very good it was actually really pathetic because it only lasted like two hours this hash tag macdonald stories or whatever and then they had to pull it they didn't specify however that they had to be good stories this is probably why ronald mcdonald has a confidentiality agreement this is my period i do have like a lot if you're going to ask you to tweet about mcdonald's you really think there's going to be overwhelmingly positive rather than just people talking smack on mcdonald's and i just can't think of one positive experience of have there untrue and you never got is there something you know you're going through the drive through on a sunday morning and gotten a fountain coke and thought it was the best thing in your whole i'm a burger king well. i only do the mcdonald's breakfast and it is only where it was you know i told you this is going to know. about their failed social media campaign . oh he's getting hungry. all right now let's move on to rick santorum

and we've got he's a hateful mean person and we talk about it all the time but he decided to weigh in on what he thinks about women's bodies and what we should do with them yet again in a new interview take a look at this. the right approach is to is to accept this horribly created in the sense of of rape but nevertheless gift and in a very broken way the gift of human life and except what god is giving to us. so again he doesn't support abortion even in cases of rape because it's a gift even though it's a crappy gift it's a gift from god now i think the worst gift giver. here and i mean nothing says happy hour like rape and abortion i really can't think of anything i'd rather be talking about right now but i do have to say whenever i hear santorum talk about rape and abortion i cannot stop thinking of that law and order character olivia

benson she was like the product of a rape and her mom hated her and she's like an uncomfortable topic i think for everyone all around well i just don't think extends this sense of humanity to the actual victim you know he keeps talking about these embryos and fetuses the like have rights when he's completely ignoring the right of a sexual assault for young and that's the whole concept that the g.o.p. loves babies until they're born and actual people are so not a good actor so. let's see what is the thing a little happier is. just a downer and it makes me angry it makes me depressed so let's talk about something going on in kentucky basically we've spoken about the creationist theme park before but here's a little refresher. the park is scheduled to include a first century style village up look of the tower of babel children's play areas and petting zoos and the main attraction of full sized noah's ark based on biblical descriptions. jedi have you been yet i realize i'm mad i know it's not open yet

still building yeah there's a feeling ark is set to open in spring of two thousand and fourteen however the museum the creation museum which is right down the street is and i've never been to that now well you know kentucky like most other states in the nation right now is having some tough economic times so budget cuts are involved but this is what they're doing is kentucky governor steve beshear is suggesting over fifty million dollars in cuts to education and yet he's preserving forty three million dollars in tax breaks for the creationist theme park. yeah events around we could be a little bit is gone only like teach creationism when you want to cut money then education this is actually i don't think this is going to be any more outrage and because what you have here is a state where it's you know renowned for its allure to illiteracy issues you've got a forty percent illiteracy rate in a lot of areas and and we're focusing now on a theme park that may or may not produce nine hundred jobs instead of the future of

the state and its children it's disgusting well said well you know if they don't go to school because they can't reach any discernible educational standards they can just work at the ark dinosaurs rightfully out amusement parks we're talking high level careers it is pretty out of priorities to me. all right now let's move on to one of our favorite topics on the show. who. last night at the debate we heard a lot of talk about nasa and the space race but it's not the first time that this kind of thing has come up we've seen mitt romney even make fun of newt gingrich in the past about wanting litter qualities take a look real quick. speaker gingrich and i have a lot of places where we disagree we'll talk about a name though which is where we disagree. let's see. we could start

with with this idea to have a colony that would mind minerals from the from the moon i'm not in favor of spending that kind of money for that to do that. well. because the truth turns out that. nasa and russia and the e.u. are working on putting permanent research stations up on the moon and i find it very fascinating the u.s. and russia have such a tough time you know relating to each other and getting along on earth but we seem to do really well in space maybe we should just all go up there and we just get along great i'm just surprised gingrich is like a one man think tank i don't know why he was like worrying about the presidency when he just you know open shop when it's down and the spews ideas and things happen to have a lot of ideas it's scary once again are you guys thanks for joining me tonight that's it for night so thanks for tuning in make you come back tomorrow we're going to have change you've heard from the young turks on to talk about obama's state of the union address in the meantime coming up next.

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hello i'm john harwood in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture and i'm the president is giving his state of the union address i'll tell you how the average american really feels about our nation also republicans are criticizing the state of the union as a camp speech republicans are also sending out campaign material prior to the speech why are they doing as well as my family and the state senate in indiana

passes right to work for less legislation is that what it is and what does that really mean i explain why you may want to call it right to work for us so that. the constitution requires the president to quote from time to time give to the congress information of the state of the union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary and expedient and quote from the constitution every so often the speeches given during times of booming prosperity low unemployment and peace is given when spirits are high when confidence in our form of government is unshakable and when our nation's reputation around the world is admired and during those times the president can walk up to the podium flanked

by his vice president and the speaker of the house and confidently tell the nation that the state of our union is strong the future is promising and a new generation of americans are such to inherit a better nation but tonight is not one of those times. tonight the state of our nation is grave and if the majority of americans were given their chance to speak out about the state of the union this is likely what they would say tonight forty nine million americans are trying to claw their way out of poverty including one out of every five american children tonight half of all americans can no longer claim to be part of the middle class and instead belong to the working poor or low income and those are the lucky ones because tonight forty six million americans depend on food stamps to put in a food on the table for their families and i five million american homeowners are dealing with the very real possibility of imminent foreclosure and literally living on the streets tonight fifty three million americans don't have health insurance

and are one illness or accident away from financial ruin tonight students across america are saddled with over one trillion dollars in student debt these are not talking points and they're not slogans that can be found on signs that occupy rallies these are the real numbers real numbers that imply a united states of america in the midst of crisis and tragically these numbers don't even begin to tell the whole story because while forty nine million americans live in poverty and forty six million americans depend on food stamps and fifty three million americans don't have health insurance there are other americans who are collecting enormous wealth and are pulling further and further away from the rest of us over the last few through over the last thirty years eighty percent of all new wealth created in our nation has gone to just the top one percent of americans. over the last thirty years the top one percent have seen their income shoot up two hundred seventy five percent while people in the middle class have

seen only a major forty percent increase in income not nearly enough to keep up with the rising costs of health care energy and education as a result the united states of america tonight is one of the most unequal nations in the developed world ranking thirty first out of thirty four o.e.c.d. nations when it comes to wealth inequality we are more on equal the nations like pakistan and the ivory coast there are four hundred billionaires in america who now own more wealth than one hundred fifty million other americans combined in fact there are six americans the six walton heirs who own more wealth than the bottom thirty percent of americans combined roughly one hundred million people this is wealth inequality not seen in america since just before the stock market crash of one nine hundred twenty nine and this wealth inequality is tearing our nation apart two thirds of americans believe there are strong class conflicts between the rich and the poor and hundreds of thousands if not millions of americans have taken to

the streets in the last four months here protest against this inequality against what they see as a government an economy that favors the very rich over the struggling many. and how did our nation that supposedly respects free speech and the rights to peaceably assemble respond with mass arrests police brutality and constant criticism in the mainstream media that would have made thomas jefferson and the rest of our founding fathers cringe our civil liberties are disappearing we now have to walk through radiation scanners display our new bodies to t.s.a. agents before boarding an airplane our phones could be wired stepped our internet searches retrieved in our library book records examined in the name of so-called homeland security and in just the last few weeks new powers have been granted to the president to indefinitely detain americans who are suspected of being what he identifies as terrorists we've traded liberty for temporary security and as ben franklin once said we now deserve neither in the name of the so-called security we

have now and manned drones flying all over the world in search of terrorists our war machine has spread out across the middle east operating both overt and covert wars that are draining our nation of critical resources and leaving thousands of young american men and women physically maimed mentally scarred and dead and we are now on the brink of what could be another war in the middle east as threats are being made against the world's oil supply flowing through the straits of hormuz. this is all the result of our nation failing to adopt a comprehensive energy plan ever since jimmy carter who had one left the white house and ronald reagan who didn't took down the solar panels that sat on top of the white house our failure to move toward renewable isn't just causing strife abroad it's turning the planet against us the state of our union is under attack by freak weather last year there was

a record breaking ten natural disasters that each cost more than one billion dollars more than seven hundred americans were killed in these natural disasters mostly mostly in freak mile long tornadoes that are becoming all too common as our planet gets hotter and hotter and we refused to heed the warnings coming from japan's nuclear disaster at fukushima and also suffered the same consequences the nuclear power plant nebraska came within inches of being flooded by a rising river we got lucky last year this year we may not and most troubling tonight americans don't have faith in our laws makers to solve any of these problems i just mentioned as the approval ratings of congress the first among our three co-equal branches of government the branch of government that is most responsive to the people stands at an all time low of just thirteen percent. this is a house of representatives that was bought and fayed paid for by our record breaking three hundred million dollars plus in secret corporate cash as

a result of the citizens united supreme court ruling and is thus now one of the most corporate controlled republican houses in the history of this nation it's a wall street controlled house that set out to dismantle social security against the will of the majority of americans a big pharma and big insurance controlled house that voted to end medicare as we know it against the will of the majority of americans a richie rich controlled house that held hostage tax breaks and jobs for the middle class to ensure that the top one percent don't see a fraction of a percentage of a tax increase and oil industry controlled house that has defended taxpayer subsidies for giant trans national oil corporations while trying to cut back on employment benefits for working people a corporatist republican controlled house that is put at the top of their priority list not helping americans fight a job but instead putting the president of the united states out of a job and this is a house that will be up for reelection at the end of the year again when over a billion dollars will be spent by special interest groups to make sure that their

interests are protected this is the reason why our state of the union is grave tonight it's because our democracy has been sold to the highest bidder and policies have been pursued to benefit that highest bidder at the expense of the majority of americans who just want economic security a good job a home anough money to put their kids through college and have money to take a vacation every now and then and enough money to retire at a reasonable age. this is what the american dream used to mean and it used to be available to the majority of us and it won't be again until we root out this corrosive corporate influence is dragging our nation to the brink of collapse tonight the president will talk about help for the middle class they'll talk about jobs about wealth inequality and about renewable energy and it'll all sound great but the truth is none of it will be possible unless something else changes we need a revolutionary change in america is the millions who've taken to the streets since the ninety nine percent movement began have demanded and to achieve that change we

need to get money out of politics and corporate personhood and say explicitly that money is property not speech tonight tragically the president will not call for a constitutional amendment to achieve all of these things and end the great selloff of our democracy but we the people the majority of americans who understand the true state of the union can still keep the pressure on him and the rest of our elected lawmakers go to move to amend or. this corporate takeover of our congress that i was just referencing in that room there pseudo state of the union address is not accidental it was put into motion back in one thousand nine hundred six by a group of robber barrons railroad actual robber barons claiming that the fourteenth amendment which was passed in eight hundred sixty eight to free the

slaves also freed the corporations because want to reference the word persons it didn't have the word natural before it which would be humans the supreme court pick this up dozens of times over the years most recently with citizens united but the fact of the matter is that no congress has ever passed a law saying that corporations are people or that money is speech. and the money is speech is that a property no president has ever pushed for it on the contrary many presidents have condemned it and going all the way back to grover cleveland in eight hundred eighty seven the year after the santa clara county decision in the supreme court where he said that the corporations had become the masters of the people and that their iron heel was on our neck in his state of the union address in eight hundred eighty seven as obama mentioned in his state of the union address in twenty ten when he called out the supreme court for the citizens united case and sam alito said there and sat there and mouth not true when president obama predicted exactly what has happened over the last two years this explosion of corporate money and billionaire

money coming into our political system and wreaking absolute avick this money power which has taken over congress we must take back and the only way we're going to take it back is through movement politics it's not going to happen through the political parties they're captive of all this money right now politicians democratic and republican a republican would love to not have to spend thirty to seventy percent of every one of their working days on the phone asking for money they'd love it but they are so captive of these of the of these organizations that they need us to create a nationwide movement that will push them to say money is property not speech corporations are corporations not people we need a national movement just just like back when in those in the seventy's sixty's and seventy's when when in just less than six months we passed

a constitutional amendment to allow eighteen year olds to vote we need another one to say that's it corporations are not people go to move to amend for more information. coming up president obama delivers his state of the union address tonight will likely try to instill a positive spin but what does our state of the union really look like for the average american will ask our pap. there are those who desperately need it to survive. misspoken is the time to give money to on the lookout to full blown gold when the fish. and the suppresses the prize the rights of the poop of. new clothes and. those who don't get their share of the cage. to get by downloading got good uploading quantities and you know and

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . even before the president step to the podium to give his state of the union address conservatives are laying out their call her arguments republican national committee sent out an e-mail this morning entitled state of failed promises which hits on the typical conservative talking points of slender debt and obamacare things that are cliched talking points for hannity and limbaugh conservatives say the state of the union address is nothing more than a campaign speech this year and appear to be backing up that argument with their

own campaign material in the form of that flyer so is there anything the president is saying tonight that can lead to real compromise and action in congress for more analysis of the president's state of the union address and how it will be received on both sides of the aisle and welcome my panel tonight brian darling columnist of human events and director of government studies at the heritage foundation and richard follower democratic strategist and advocacy director for young democrats of america welcome to both thanks for all the young the president is promoting insourcing. giving tax breaks to companies that bring their jobs back home this is actually something that passed congress when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house and got filibustered by republicans in the senate. brian let me start with you i don't get what's wrong with that well here's first of all this is going to be a campaign speech republicans are right it's going to be the president's occupy congress speech where you when exits finger at those evil members of congress republicans and democrats blames them for all of the problems that he's created for

america to the extent that a president is trying to get his agenda forward and if you want to call it a campaign speech that's fine but hasn't every president on that you've been he had can get a little of both chambers of congress he had a sixty vote majority in his first year he did not have in this not here he did not have a filibuster proof you know his version your he did he in and then scott brown was sworn in he lost his filibuster lieberman is not a democrat because he's. over this and ben nelson says why did they send nelson has a has a rabid weasel on his head i mean it's just it's i guess you need a hard core leftist to occupy congress you need to examine it but in any case. richard your thoughts on well if the republicans had their way would be pretty simple there would be no seat of the union address because they keep saying this are going to present giving a campaign address with the president is addressing the nation about the strength of the union and i think what you can hear from the president tonight he's going to say this to the union is strong but we could be stronger and we could be stronger republicans in congress get to work.