and governments across the country can do to address that sort of producer for treason to send you to find out what you have to say. while the governor of california wants to shift a two point four billion dollars of the state budget from classrooms to other spending and raise university tuition missouri governor jay nixon wants to reduce funding to universities by twelve point five percent and is asked universities not to hike up to wish it now states are continuing to take away funding for public universities all while student loan debt now reaches more than one trillion dollars now students in california came up with an idea to turn of the notion of college tuition on its head students before go to wishin is the pay five percent of earning income for the next twenty years after they graduate now this sort of innovation got us think it is what else could states do to deal with the growing debt bubble as money for education continues to dry up and let's see what our viewers have to say alan thompson he said how about corporate sponsored scholarships the one percent has all the money let them pay for the employees degrees now occupy wall

street thomas told us the money used to fund our wars could be used to fund to wish him instead and cindy free said remove all interest and fees on every student loan back to the original amount then kept the interest and fees for life with a look now everyone seems to agree someone radical needs to do something to ease the pressure on college students and graduates in an already bad economy let's just hope lawmakers are ready and willing to listen. now as always we appreciate your responses and here's our next question for you earlier in the show we spoke to colonel lawrence wilkerson about the g.o.p. presidential candidates and their views on cuba with the lone exception of ron paul they are all in favor of maintaining sanctions and travel restrictions on the country so what do you think at the time we lift sanctions on cuba and so on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows the response just might make you know nick. well yesterday the supreme court weighed in on the latest fourth amendment case to come before that. and one of the most important also see back in november

the justices agreed to hear a case involving the federal government placing g.p.s. trackers on the cars of people with interest of interest without obtaining a warrant now we've spoken at length about this issue here on the show something that we see as a clear fourth amendment violation and we've also spoken about the disturbing trend of police violating people's rights to privacy and in many cases getting the courts on their side take for example the case of yasser is a muslim american who found one of these truckers on his car and immediately suspect that the government was keeping tabs on him for no other reason than his heritage makes me feel like they're treating me like a terrorist or criminal and there are giving me my my rights as an american citizen i was born and raised here so i feel different. my speeling. now yasir is case is different than the one that was heard by the supreme court this specific case united states versus jones revolves around a suspected cocaine dealer that was being tracked over an extended period of time so attorneys for jones said that his conviction should be thrown out because the

feds attached the g.p.s. tracker outside of the initial warrant period of twenty eight days that was when the government could legally follow jones to use appeals courts came up with different decisions but the supreme court ruled that the use of a g.p.s. device to monitor one suspects car over an extended period of time qualifies as a search under the fourth amendment so in other words the government's desire to track somebody for a long period of time is classified as a search which under law requires a warrant all nine justices were in agreement on this decision but with different reasons why they came to that outcome justice scalia explained the majority opinion that electronic surveillance if achieved without trespassing on the suspected person's property could count as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy but here's the point the really bugs me he goes on to say that the present case doesn't require the justices to answer that question so yeah this is good news but really we were hoping the justices would take this opportunity to weigh in on the constitution. ality of the use of the tracking device itself sadly looks like they

took the easy way out opting not to decide if the tracker is and are an unlawful invasion of a person's right to privacy but rather saying that in this instance specifically it constitutes a search let's look at a small victory here and the slap in the face of this ruling brings the obama administration they justify the questionable tracking techniques and defended their actions based on an one nine hundred eighty three court case where the supreme court allowed the government to use trackers without a warrant for one single trip but this time around the justices agreed that the government was overstepping their bounds because they were tracking the suspect twenty four hours a day for twenty eight days straight now before you get too excited about the ruling despite its weakness you will have a lot of disappointing news for your privacy from a court out of colorado for you tomorrow so let's just say that passwords are no longer all that safe. well n.b.c.'s republican debate last night we once again heard a lot about the issue of immigration only at this debate we heard

a little less about building a gigantic fence to keep everyone out and a little bit more about getting those that are already here out and then mitt romney throughout this word. the answer is self deportation which is people decide that they could do better by going home because they can't find work here because they don't have legal documentation to allow them to work here and so we're not going to round people up. now self deportation in and of itself sounds a little bit like an oxymoron but a lot of people say that it's a term that describes the goal and states across the country right now where draconian immigration laws have been passed like arizona or alabama making life so hard for undocumented immigrants that they voluntarily lee joining me to discuss this is axel cover the arrow founder and producer of quentin may a brave new foundation campaign for joining us tonight and i guess let me hear your definition of what exactly self deportation is. well i think the first program was most people who are right now are kind of scratching their heads trying to figure out what

exactly is deeper taishan this is something that just came out of the blue as far as his campaign is a new policy reversal if you can call that policy it's kind of ludicrous to just think that it's out of nowhere twelve million undocumented folks are going to stand up and say we're going to leave this country you know this is not for us anymore so and so i think that that's the main first point the second point to that is that really what it is what it sounds to be is more of a code word to just not do anything to leave it up to right now the policies that are happening throughout the states the vacuum that has caused arizona to enact as between seventy or to try to enact as between seventy and the policy that has allowed private prison corporations to fund local particularly pieces of legislation so that they would benefit out of the incarceration of immigrants i

think that that is the main thing behind this new policy reversal and make it sound as if he's soft and his stance on immigration when in reality it's a big you know it's a term that really doesn't say anything. as far as we're concerned well you know i also liked jeffrey's over mother jones basically called this the conservative trifecta because he said that has this free market free will sort of sound to it at the same time it could reduce deportation costs of people are living on their own and it really you know emphasizes the states passing their own legislation that tries to push on documented immigrants out and they don't even need the federal government involved either so it kind of makes sense that they try to just use this this word that sounds flowery but really i mean isn't this you know if you look at some of the laws that are being passed in alabama and arizona it's about scaring people to right to the point where they're afraid to sign their children for school or they might be afraid to take them to the hospital if your citizenship is going

to be checked all the time. that's is you're right and i think what is even more mind boggling is that this is precisely what he's been advocating whether candidate romney you know a lot of the other campuses well they have been advocating for a very first anti immigration stance pretty much along the lines of what alabama would arizona would be utah would georgia were to pass. the primary moves into latino states like florida or new mexico and now suddenly the stance is well it's really self deportation we're on they're not i don't know that so let me cut you off really quick too because we're running out of time a little bit but we have yesterday on our show we showed mitt romney's new spanish language ad where he's trying to appeal to hispanic voters and so here i thought one of the moderators last i asked a very good questions to look. all of the favor making english the official language of the united states which could mean that ballots and other government

documents would not be available in spanish but speaker gingrich you're sending out press releases and spanish us governor romney you're advertising in spanish why is it ok for you to court voters and spanish us but not ok for the government to serve them and spanish. beth reinhard we didn't have a show yesterday that was by mental love there but romney does have this spanish language ad out right now if it were his sons talking about it and i think that she brings up a really good point you know i mean are latino voters going to buy that if you start putting out spanish language ads. well that's that's essentially what is happening right now with all the campaigns where they take a hard stance because they're going for the base they're trying to mobilize their folks and then when it's time to reach out of the constituencies that actually would need to reach out the folks that are really important in this election then you know they change they change the language they reach out in different language and they try to adapt to pretty much what the campaign should be in the first place

so i think that there's a disconnect and we're seeing that and i think that with tina electorate as the rest of the country is pretty smart it's very smart i would say and be thinking recognize we can recognize that sometimes these words are just political words is more a politician saying or trying to say well what do you consider it's warmer here or what we really want to know is exactly what the proposals are going to be throughout the campaign and have a clear positions of the those proposals but let me play you something that rick santorum said last night which is very much a big republican talking point. not sure if we have it. bottom line is if you do inforce the law and say that. ok we can play right now fortunately but rick santorum basically is going on with this line that everything you do if

you ever if you entered this country illegally initially even everything you do from then on is an illegal act anywhere you might work at a school that you might attend and you know how do you counter that kind of that kind of a statement. well it's very hard to counter because there's already this stigma that has been created as far as what the word illegal means and what these actions are but let's start first and foremost from the understanding of the reasoning why folks migrate here and it's not because they want to commit crimes you know having a job is not a crime particularly working for fours for a living to to have a better life that's not a crime and so i think that that is absolutely a disconnect with reality as far as what they are trying to to per trade as illegal behavior what it in reality is happening of crime are ceo's that are really you know. robbing the american people right now with all these bailout stuff they were

going to see in the state of the union a crime is a murder or a particular actual crime that is happening as is stated in our laws good behavior just because of the act of migrated over here and that that behavior anything that you do becomes illegal it becomes a crime that is essentially what the problem is in this dialogue is that it has become so so polarized and so amazingly detrimental to the public this corps that is presenting a problem as far as really finding solutions to move this immigration debate forward now will have to see what the president says tonight in a state of the union on immigration too because i can't imagine that he's going to ignore it specially not in this election year axl thanks so much for joining us tonight. thanks so much for having me. i just ahead tonight i can i send friends picking a fight with occupy d.c. to find out tonight full time and that happy hour mcdonald's creative advertising

method backfires on them right santorum tough allows weighing in on women's rights a case in the gulf and all that and come back. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you sure see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry is a big. i

guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and we're giving it to congress and more specifically members of the house oversight and government reform committee the after giving members of the occupy d.c. movement the initial ok mayor vincent gray and the national park service have decided that this four month long protest has lasted long enough but that wasn't

enough for representative darrell issa he had his powerful subcommittee called in d.c. police chief cathy lanier and the national park service amongst others to figure out why the protesters were able to circumvent the district's ban against camping in a federal park so members of the committee him. that the question of park service is decision making process and possibly mayor vincent gray has changed views on the campaign it seems that gray has taken a cue from mitt romney going back on his original support encouragement to call macpherson 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 percent 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 the 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 simple 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 rats everywhere you go out you know everywhere they can be you know what i was i never knew i'd be seen that many ways you could turn to 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 time

winners. are guys it's 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 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 growth if you told me it was the egg mcmuffin the pardons the egg mcmuffin the egg mcmuffin the whole beach experts are calling it the science behind. ok well it turns out mcdonald's had one big massive fail

because then they tried to launch this social media campaign and try to get people to tweet with the hash tag meet the farmers in the 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 lost finger and gross and they had to i think they had to. mcmuffin of p.r. sales. 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 people 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 there nothing or anyone ever going through the drive thru 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 i only do the mcdonald's breakfast and that is only where it was you know i told you this is going to. do it again and not about their failed social media campaign. 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 bodies and what we should do with them yet again in a new interview take a look at this. right approach is to is to accept this horribly created in the sense of of rape but nevertheless a gift and in a in a in a very broken way the gift of human life and accept what god has given 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 ever. 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 and her mom hated her and she's like an uncomfortable topic i think for everyone all around well i just 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 an actual people so not a good actor so. let's see what is the thing a little happier. 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 pork is scheduled to include a first century style village up of the tower of babel children's play areas and petting zoos and the main attraction of noah's ark based on biblical descriptions. have you been yet i really hope 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 and i've never been to that now well you know kentucky like most other states in the nation right now citing 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 can only like teach creationism when you want to cut money for 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 and 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 young dinosaur is rightfully out amusement parks we're talking high level careers this pretty out of priorities. all right now let's move on to one of our favorite topics in 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 a leader 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 that with this idea to have a lunar colony that would mind minerals from the from the moon i'm not in favor of spending that kind of money 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 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 is like worrying about the presidency when he just you know open shop when it's down and disputes ideas and things happen to

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starting off with these live pictures a live event tens of thousands of people gyptian is again gathered square to marquee years since the uprising but nonetheless frustration too over a lack of change clouding the celebrations reaction and reporting about this story coming right up also tonight. pledges to save the economy and create much needed jobs kick off president obama's reelection campaign and his state of the union address. and all the secrets on one show the world's top whistle blowers to get

others to tell on t.v. . where to watch. live from moscow at eleven pm you're watching r.t. well welcome to my name is kevin owen and our top story than this hours have just been mentioning tens of thousands of egyptians are back in cairo's now iconic tahrir square marking a year since the uprising with toppled president mubarak but there's another reason is allowed to because almost thirty years of emergency rules partially been lifted even those keep police will remain because we can't sing it with our correspondent in this and now she's live in cairo in cairo in tahrir square shortly but let's now before that talk to dr ahmad badawi he's director of the center of the conflict says he's.