elaine. lemmings. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and it goes once again to bank of america you see the state of arizona is accusing b. of a peeping a fraud probe against the bank investigation was launched by the state in two thousand and ten to look at allegations that the bank had repeatedly deceived homeowners who are looking for mortgage modifications and bank of america is making as difficult as humanly possible for them to actually conduct this investigation is he back in june bloomberg reported that they denied of the arizona attorney general's request to interview former bank employees and it looks like that railroading was just the tip of the iceberg it turns out they've decided to go with straight up payoffs let me explain how it was states are calling up the people that actually made complaints against b. of a they weren't really getting called back very often which was weird because

these are the people that had filed official complaints against the bank in the first place so they take a little bit deeper and they discover that the reason for the radio silence is the bank of america had beat them to the punch they have been making a few phone calls of their own offering a loan modifications to the borrowers who had made complaints in return for their silence that's right they had to agree not to make any statements that quote defamed disparage or in any way criticize the banks reputation practices or conduct and the best part is still coming up to the documents read to the bar will remove and delete any online statements regarding this dispute including without limitation posting on facebook twitter and similar websites so yeah they're actually making people go through their entire social network history and scrub it of any negative comments about the of a that snarky tweet be made about what a whole bankers are that's going to have to go and a facebook post yeah those are gone to you this is a payoff this is a lower rate in exchange for silence past and present and you wonder why people

think the banks are so evil now the state is acting asking the courts to step in and tell the bars that they don't have to comply with this absurd gag order which b. of a claims is routine personally i would call it obstruction but for paying off for . ugly borrowers in exchange for their silence to impede a broad investigation thank you america has once again tonight still time winner. hi guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening r.t. correspondent christine freeze out and comedian phaeton smith welcome back feet and we've missed you it's been all right here yeah. let's start with a really horrible awful story it's just we're do out of oklahoma one lawmaker has a particular cause and he's trying to buy it for. leaving it and i was able results

are a proposal at the state county board talking about an oklahoma senator asking for a ban on fetuses used for food testing while maker wants to make it illegal to manufacture or knowingly sell food or other products that contain embryonic still stem cell. is there a problem like do people normally put aborted fetuses into food and any food maker is saying that no this is never happened even the guy that brought up legislation said i don't know if it's happening in oklahoma it may be it may not be what i'm saying that if it does happen then we're not going to allow it to manufacture here i think the point is this is bringing a lot of questions everybody to wonder what do you what do you talk about i have a lot of questions i actually wrote them down here we go what company is saving money by making selling aborted foetuses all right i mean what is aborted foetuses actually replacing it like a certain place in which. going with it i mean if you this is how many mass producing baby fetuses that they are mass producing that are they locally grown or

is this coming from china and if it is how they are they are or are they are there any up reserves in my love my baby fetuses or or another question are they freeways . becoming so i want to have some proper of i don't want to suffer baby feed. you really cared if i did i came here for it always will be a church i like hearing right now that i can flirt we can do that this is i will drink this water and i. will say i was just going to say i think this is an attempt at somebody that's very conservative and very pro life agenda anti stem cell agenda who wants to get people talking about i want to get people grossed out about it people who don't think about. the issue of abortion he wants to get them disgusted by it but that's a little more so i guess i'm going to be a serious conversation you know a. lot of the smaller government republicans are right you know this is happy hour this is exactly how you view going to be anybody's what it is that they're legislating on things that are not issues and so raise up all these stupid questions that are stupid but i want to say i want to smaller government where baby

fetuses are legal how about that i'm a republican i let's move on to moving on and. take a look at this story he wants his job back i was totally on the spot so the defense lawyer says he was responding to a call for backup back in two thousand and eight when this. an actress in her crew approached him and asked him to engage in lewd acts with her. actually touching her wrist. all right so the guy got approached by a foreign sorry felt while on duty do you think you should get a job i think you should get a job back he wasn't in the whore and he didn't take his clothes off she asked him to spank him a couple times he said his job here service i know he served more than twenty years it's hard to find good traffic cops in any city in america i'm completely for him keep his job also because the more you try to move the more i'm not getting tickets that say all right and b you know it's funny this would never work a reverse like this is only to work with a male like a meter maid i could be a big muscular do somebody wants to be johnson that video would never exist and

that said to me so you think if it was a woman that was asked to be in a porn with a man that she would be it women always say no this is or you're like i'm going to she said yes that is how you see radically your own life just like you know when the stranger walk i know. to touch that one of the bigger flaws that god put in you know what i mean no offense i think women are equal and all that but god if you will just say yes a little bit more can we move on you know outward i usually like this if you want to. drink and. have been on the senate floor in kentucky but basically they were they were debating some bill about the local aquaria so they had a visitor from the local aquarium was a cute little thing when this happened. with just difficult it on the floor there. is that being when your dog never actually said i believe that your desk. this is why you don't bring penguins into the state house i think it was great that they

brought the penguin i got all these what seems to me very stiff kentucky legislators laughing about something i can have somebody clean up the penguin poop i'm sure it's and i'm completely against bringing any animal into i mean they couldn't they could have a picture couldn't believe i was going to make the same factors a cute adorable penguin is a very attractive oh if you see the penguin sitting there i'm afraid of this because i know disney movies are messed me up and we think a lot of animals are q i don't know what the dangers are penguins but i do want to find that out. i thought moment when a very personal relations off or right everybody everybody i talk appliances are from from a pop up so now front of the most dangerous things in the world what if the pain when we're crazy playing when there was a death all right you can talk you know the wrong tool can tell me what you would be controlled by people and they could get you to leave your their main black widow . on this for you heard her by penguin in the kentucky state legislature that was talking about that as well. and i love this story this story is so messed up so this kid is in ninth grade sees a substitute taking

a nap when he's supposed to be teaching the class or takes a picture of the substitute taking a nap with his cell phone and he shows it to the principal and then the kid gets suspended and this is their reasoning. but the use of a telecommunication device is not permitted during the school day with that policy yeah but maybe that was the only way to prove that the teacher was actually sleeping you teacher was sleeping then maybe the school system needs to investigate that. i agree i mean seriously being on the job but it's the kid that gets in trouble but i guess that's why i haven't snarks that's what we're seeing on the ari i think it's outrageous that kids should be a hero the kid should be congratulating congratulated for trying to make his school system better of course if he's taking pictures of the teachers sleeping he's not going to be learning you think the other students feel that way they're like dude we didn't have to do anything because the substitute was a sleeve and you had to go and really i think we're missing the bigger issue here too teacher nobody was learning any way all right it was an off day for everybody

a teacher was sleeping just like the rest the class should have a sleeping kid should be just read a lot of people who want jobs as substitute teachers who are very qualified former teachers laid off they should be allowed to be in the classrooms not people sleeping yes and there's a lot of students who wants to teach or so they can do nothing and this kid is really everything he says where he just let's also think about the bigger picture we need are starting to feel learning what to do right if the teacher either leaves them a lesson plan or tells them like here's a movie pop into the tape that you're ok i don't want to be in a very contention tell me a great substitute teacher story where they sat you down and taught you that one life lesson that you learned no life lesson but i had plenty of substitute teachers who actually taught me the lesson that the teacher would have taught that day really yes i never will substitute but it was never the less of the day is always like that when it was all like yeah i don't know exactly that's what those lessons i got mean. they were better school me than me are you guys going to have a thank you for joining me this evening that separate night so thanks for tuning in ad make sure they come back tomorrow and read as if the reason is going to be on the show to talk about the latest unemployment numbers and also to have

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and this is the big picture broadcasting live from washington d.c. so over a half a billion homes you know one hundred million in over one hundred countries. you need to know this goes to ronald reagan his return to haunt you gingrich all the republican candidates trying to be president there's one who has relied on ronald reagan the most is one candidate above all the others he likes to name drop the messiah of the republican party every chance he gets it every single day and that

one candidate newt gingrich. i worked with president ronald reagan i started working with governor reagan in one nine hundred seventy four under ronald reagan we had the right job when i became speaker we went back to the ronald reagan playbook i worked with ronald reagan in the early one nine hundred eighty s. and that's just a fraction of newt's reagan name drops as nate silver over the new york times coded newt gingrich is mentioned reagan's name fifty five times in the republican debate so far averaging three mentions per debate no other candidate comes even close santorum for example has only mentioned reagan fourteen times. gingrich has now surged to the top of the field following his race baiting strategy in south carolina a strategy i might add that helped reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty when he went to philadelphia mississippi where three civil rights were workers were murdered to kick off his presidential campaign to talk about states' rights a dog whistle to races southerners but now with newt at the top of the field the

republican establishment is turning on him and guess whose name is being invoked to criticize newt ronald reagan on wednesday the conservative national review online published a hit piece on gingrich written by former reagan staffer and convicted criminal elliott abrams abrams wote wrote mr gingrich voted with the president regularly but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at reagan his top aides and his policies to defeat communism gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that reagan's policies would fail and in all of this he was dead wrong abrams then runs down a few quotes from gingrich about reagan that are over twenty five years old in one thousand nine hundred eighty six for example gingrich said about the reagan administration measured against the scale of momentum of the soviet empire as challenge the reagan administration has failed is failing and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail president reagan is clearly

failing and in one thousand nine hundred five when reagan met with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev gorbachev gingrich said it was the most dangerous summit for the west since adolf hitler met with the neville chamberlain in one nine hundred thirty eight in munich piling on conservative joe scarborough said this about newt gingrich's past criticisms of reagan this morning on its n.b.c. . i think all this really told this is about newt gingrich is what most people already know and that is that he is just ideologically word he will say whatever he thinks will get him in advantage that day and when the tide turns he too will turn with that tide apparently the reagan tide has now turned against gingrich so once again the reagan litmus test is being put to use despite touting reagan fifty five times in the debates again or just being hammered for the three times he mentioned reagan's name twenty five years ago in

a not so positive light but the big picture here is this why the heck is reagan still playing such a huge role more than twenty five years after he left office in today's republican presidential race if things keep going at this rate there won't just be for podiums and four candidates on stage at the next debate in florida will be a fifth podium with a mum a firearm will reagan propped up against it because the republicans ronald reagan is a god he is the man by which all their policy should be measured he is the only by conservative that all candidates should strive to become what's lost in all this reagan worshipping and idolatry is reagan's actual record as president and when that's examined and we take a look at what reagan actually did in the white house you're really have to question the wisdom of today's republican party and their reliance on the reagan test let's take a look back at what reagan actually did for example the s.l.c.

deregulated them early in his administration leading to the financial crash of the one nine hundred eighty s. and the s. and l. crisis in one thousand nine hundred six it cost the nation eighty seven billion dollars. on the other hand he put about a thousand banks toure's in jail so it's interesting in one nine hundred eighty six he granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants not exactly a model for the hardline anti immigrant stance of today's republicans he tripled our national debt with the trickle down economics adding more debt than all the presidents from washington to carter combined not exactly a fiscal conservative right he was rocked by scandals he had the iran contra scandal the cocaine and duras the october surprise but there were a few things reagan did even though they were few and far between that would make today's republicans heads totally explode he bucked his advisors they begged him

not to talk to gorbachev about this but he went to gorbachev and said hey let's get rid of all the nukes both our countries gorbachev's a good idea it sounds like appeasement to me right and to a lot of the republicans these days and he raised the capitalist gains tax you know the one that romney only pays like fifteen percent and that's it picked out a fifteen percent rate or raise that up to be identical with the ordinary wage income tax engaging in what today's republicans call class warfare. we're going to close the under the view of the mound some of the family will think it would be their fears. in theory some of those who were understanding but in practice they sometimes made it possible for a million years to make a bus driver was being presented is sound and that's crazy if you think that millionaire or maybe more intense than the bus driver or the way. that puts reagan to the left brock obama reagan's record has been rewritten in the last twenty plus

years there's in fact there's this whole project was funded by a bunch of very wealthy people grover norquist heads it up the reagan legacy project one of their one of their explicit goals in addition to rewriting all the history about reagan or glossing over things like what you just saw is to make sure that in every county in america at least one building gets named after ronald reagan or one statue of it gets put up when you look at his actual record he was he was no god he accounted for much of the destruction we see in our economy today and the few good things that he did today's republicans would be running away from. the republican candidates for president try to outdo each other over who's more like ronald reagan or at least the mythical ronald reagan was consummate governor

scott walker's actually emulating reagan's legacy of busting up unions thirty years after reagan fired all the unionized air traffic controllers at co walker tried to dismantle public employee unions in wisconsin and go in so well for. more than a million signatures were collected to recall him from office and wednesday night he had to face the people of wisconsin to give his annual state of the state address and let's just say that didn't go so well either and then this morning a legal nuclear bomb druck dropped on walker for more on the republican governor's troubles and what's next for the recall effort in the badger state i'm joined by john nichols washington correspondent with the nation magazine john welcome. it's good to be with you tom great to have you with us john first of all the low hanging fruit the state of the state address that didn't go so well as. well the governor did get through it and i guess that counts for something but it didn't exactly have

an obama ring to it the governor seemed to be rushing through the speech and i think some people didn't understand why even even a pop. sause for what we traditionally be an applause line it was because thousands of people were in the rotunda of the capitol and surrounding the capitol shouting shame so loudly that you could hear the chants through the maro walls of the capitol into the chamber where the governor was speaking and therefore he couldn't pause because then then the mikes who pick up the chant that's a crowd hear the people now so the the nuclear bomb this morning crimes in the walker camp. yeah pretty serious stuff too long time aides to the governor were charged with major crimes in one case for felonies of using the office of the milwaukee county executive that was walker's office when you ran for governor just set up what the prosecutor describes as a secret secret network to communicate about fundraising and policy and they

actually hollowed out in anwar and put in a secret internet router so that they could send e-mails from staff who were paid by the taxpayers back and forth with big campaign regarding particular campaign fund raising issues this is totally legal and what's fascinating is that in f.b.i. raids and other investigations the prosecutors have gotten access to thousands of e-mails including some e-mails from governor walker which suggests and we're innocent what was going on let's be clear we haven't got walker has not been charged we don't know everything that's going on here yet but people very very close to him abin charged now with felonies involving abuse of office and campaign finance and generally tax filings amazing speed of campaign finance houses fundraising knowing where to get his money very well the governor may have troubles in other areas but he is extremely popular in texas. he has raised raising money at

the rate of almost five million dollars a month and at this point sixty one percent of the money is coming from outside was constant including a lot of checks for one hundred thousand and even two hundred fifty thousand dollars from texans one of his biggest texas donors is the guy who funded this with boat ads against john kerry at that's amazing. you know he's facing this recall election there's also you know going to be a an election if he if he gets kicked out. against the democrat right i mean how does this work by john and are there any democrats who have come forward yet who have a chance of beating walker your governor is the target of a recall a million signatures have been filed that's almost certain to force a new election that's how it works it was constant the governor's name will go on the ballot he could face a republican primary certainly face a democratic opponent

a number of democrats have stepped up and certainly the field is full. are in county executive kathleen fogg county executive for many years the second largest county in the state is running she seems to have a good deal labor backing a state senator tim collins a veteran democratic state senator is also served in good material candidates is running. there's talk of milwaukee mayor tom barrett former congressman dave obie and of course in wisconsin there's always a discussion about the possibility that russ feingold might be convinced to make the run that would be remarkable john nichols thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you it's good to be with you john thanks coming up in the rest of the show deep pocketed political donors aren't just throwing their money in political campaigns and super pacs are also giving wads of cash to prominent t.v. networks a bombshell new report examines just how corrosive the spending is to our democracy also the organization that brought us occupy wall street has

a new plan to tell you what it is and why literally the whole world will be watching and finally what's behind the uptick in cancer diagnoses among t.s.a. agents explain in tonight's daily take. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right. i think. even one well. whenever the government says there keep you safe get ready because you get your

freedom. who. will. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry is a big issue. after

american saw over three hundred million dollars in outside corporate cash two thousand and ten midterm elections we know full well who benefited the most when the supreme court's citizens united decision that will be the republican party and their deep pocketed corporate donors meanwhile average americans who don't have as much money and therefore don't have as much speech according to the supreme court are screwed but no one seems to be talking about who else stands to gain from the citizens united decision and that's crucial t.v. broadcasters after all these super pacs need to pay t.v.

broadcasters to air their negative ads in their hippies documentaries and already we've seen more than twelve million dollars spent on t.v. advertising during the iowa caucuses and fourteen million bucks last week in the south carolina primary alone so what effect a corporate super pacs and huge amounts of money over to commercial broadcasters have on the. that branch of the fourth estate and thus on our democracy here to answer that is craig president c.e.o. free press dot net has just published a new report on this exact issue titled citizens inundated democracy under threat greg welcome thanks i mean to a great to have you here so how much money do t.v. broadcasters stand to make this year well the reliable estimate say could be as much as three billion dollars raked in by broadcasters cable channels and whatnot so really sixty cents of every dollar going into the election which is far beyond you know the spending is far beyond anything it's been before the people who are where those checks are being cast is that local television stations national

television stations with ad after ad after ad as the people of iowa south carolina and now florida can tell you you know there's no more ads for car dealers or anything getting on air is it's one attack ad or election ad after another and these companies at the very same time they're cutting back on coverage are cashing in on what i worry is really the demise of our democracy how how are they influenced by that money i mean does this well you know i think their influence it's an addiction really and so you have these broadcasters just making money hand over fist during an election year but unfortunately not putting that money back into actually making sense of the elections for the american people so we have an electorate that's more misinformed more inundated than ever before and yet at the same time these broadcasters are getting rich basically by peddling that misinformation my radio i do a three hour commercial radio show you know during.