hi guys it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because we've got some to say i listen now first i want to respond to a viewer the watch our story on senator al franken and representative jeff landry teaming up to change the language of the n.b.a. in clarify the u.s. citizens are barred from being indefinitely detained slew of damascus commented how about a lot of stop tacking on laws to big spending bills like defense authorization act we need to close these loopholes of tyranny and personally i wholeheartedly agree i think of the practice of tacking on amendment after amendment to giant spending bills as an incredibly dangerous one there's simply too much pressure to push these bills through especially when it comes to defense because you know nobody would dare leave the pentagon unfunded in this town it's an age old washington tactic and it works senators and congressmen object but the bills involved funding the entire u.s. military so while they just have to get pushed through then we end up with situations like this one where hugely important and quite frankly scary things like the

provision for indefinite detention get passed and only patched up after the fact when it's often too late and as i mentioned earlier in the show the idea is already being enforced by courts next on respond to burgundy point three who apparently thinks that the brakes we have to hit on the show are something nefarious he commented on you tube don't you hate it when newscasters cut an interesting conversation short because they have to go to breaks yes because you know i love to censor my guests the specially on issues like act that you know unfortunately we have to have certain breaks for international air trust me i hate it just as much as you do but any a good interview before it's reform we're ready to end it is always a painful thing unfortunately though it's not up to us it's just the way things have to be a lastly i want to thank all of our viewers for all the birthday love today i got a lot of tweets and messages and here are just a few of them to leo to me to that is happy birthday alone i watch your show all the time i always look forward to it every day you are the best by a tweet it. my b.

day to today and dick cheney so there's that that's the first that i've heard that i share the same birthday as dick cheney and i don't know let me tell you creeps me out a little bit then a robertson guard tweeted this i must tell you are wiser today because you are old happy birthday and many many more love your show rock on so thanks for all the love you guys are the best and for all my ranting so they are we back with more later in the week. well looks like anybody who has had their personal fire files copyrighted or not saved on make upload could lose that data forever you see when the f.b.i. came in on january nineteenth and raided mega upload in new zealand and detained four people tied to the file sharing site they also froze the accounts of one hundred fifty million registered users even customers of the access to their data which is all stored virtually and they also froze make up loans bank accounts which is important to know because the company hires third parties to store customer data for a fee so inevitably upload can't pay their bills and storage companies carpathia hosting

and cogent communications group. for free so they just might start deleting that data as of this thursday february second a letter from u.s. prosecutors announce the data could be deleted as early as this thursday and went on to say that while the us did go through the locker storage company's servers they did not take any information with them they just scanned through them and copied any data that they felt was evidence of a d.o.j. letter also explains of the government is finished with the search warrants and has no right to go back and access the data again meanwhile we're hearing some thing different from the companies that are actually storing the data our paper for example issued a statement saying maybe hosting does not have and has never had access to the content of make up load servers and has no mechanism for returning any content residing on such servers to make uploads customers the company also says they have not been given any notice about deleting information to the government so we're not really quite sure where the d.o.j.

got this tip about data being wiped out meanwhile defense lawyer iraq and is also trying to regain all that data saying that it's a crucial element of the upcoming legal case between the hong kong company and the department of justice and that's not the only legal challenge the u.s. is facing here you see they're also facing a legal challenge coming from the pirate party according to torrent freak parties from around the world are coming together to make a list of every person who's going to. by this rate a master list is going to be used to file an official complaint against the us and in an announcement they stated that the seizure of mega upload is an justifiable and is responsible for creating widespread damage they went on to say for this reason pirates of catalonia in collaboration with pirate parties international and other by rip artie's have begun investigating these potential breaches of law and will facilitate submission of complaints against the us authorities in as many countries as possible to ensure a positive result so all eyes are on the f.b.i. the d.o.j. and the u.s. government in general to see what move they're going to make next with regards to

make. we're going to make sure to keep you updated on all of those developments. well once again the world had to hear that because she ations between the greek government and bondholders didn't result in an agreement being reached stock slipped on the news is vester is becoming more weary of constantly hearing that a deal is close meanwhile here in the us news that consumer spending fell flat december as more americans saved thanks the question of where exactly growth is going to come from and we've been hearing a lot about the need for moral capitalism discussed these days but are some of the advocates of it part of the problem joining me to discuss all that is our lauren lyster host of the capital account lauren thanks for joining us and welcome back i know you just got back from davos last night we had a chance to capture up with you couple of times while you were there but now they're back now the whole thing's over what would you say is the biggest takeaway it's a big question first of all happy birthday i think you know. the biggest takeaway

and regard with the official agenda are kind of my biggest personal takeaway were biggest personal takeaway from spending a couple days up there in the you know in the mountain. my biggest takeaway is get a better badge and maybe have a little bit more energy to schlep around because it's not as glamorous as it looks all that traipsing around in the snow i think that's probably a really different experience no matter how you experience davos just based on who you. where you're coming from that is a really big forum it's really hard to kind of get overwhelming sense of you know what's really going on everybody has a different agenda and a personal agenda is far is the official agenda i didn't hear anything that was really different i didn't hear anything that really made me feel like people are serious about advancing capitalism in a way that is different from how it's been with the bank bailouts and with crony capitalism and with some of the problems that we've seen the eurozone crisis was a big deal but it's continued to be a big deal and we've heard more leaders in finance ministers talking about it more

discussions today kind of an ongoing saga the u.s. not a big part of the agenda definitely the euro zone crisis is taking over any of. the u.s. part of it and officially it's network in place and people are very dazzled by the quality of the roster so they're not worried by this entire theme of shaping new models didn't exactly come into play but so in that case let's talk about greece let's talk about what's going on once again it seems like they keep saying that they were close to reaching agreement or they didn't reach a final agreement you know are people can get sick of this at a certain point are they getting a little weary at least aren't you. i don't know morning on this every day mind you a line is ok blah blah blah euro zone officials are meeting will tell you when there's something to really talk about today i guess it was a win with the fiscal pact that angle merkel's been trying to tout as a solution to the eurozone crisis this is just one thing i mean the big kind of rallying cry of davos for leaders whether it's timothy geitner which is obviously

not a european leader or david cameron or all of these officials from various different countries we need a bigger we need a bigger fire wall they need to boost the firewall there needs to be more money more bailout money which is something that angela merkel doesn't want she made that very clear at davos there is no greek deal that is essential the last thing we saw a european union official saying that. germany had a wanted to take over the budget of greece and then sarkozy said that's not going to work for obvious reasons that you know you can expect greece to hand over its sovereignty that's absurd that's kind of a crazy idea that they're just saying here and greece you deal with all of our spill and a lot on the right of that i want a big it's your birthday getting you know excited right about the euro zone crisis i know i have a lot to get excited about let's talk about something and you know you brought this to my attention today to we've heard with occupy wall street going on ever since the financial crash too you know there are

a lot of these emotions that capitalism isn't exactly being practiced way that should be in this country which i think you can say obviously and so we've heard a lot of calls for this more moral you know approach to it and so when the people we've heard talk a lot about this is arianna huffington of the huffington post and so i'm going to read a quote here from her she says i worry about it in the middle of the day as well as in the middle of the night one of the things that make me optimistic is so many millions more people do have a voice now so there's a countervailing force that is coalescing about real transformation not a rhetorical one so that all sounds very nice and i think that she has a point in terms of we're finally hearing this become part of the rhetoric part of the discussion but she also kind of a part of the problem alone in this i think it kind of really highlights is a really good example of the difference between ideology and reality everyone having ten is at davos where that one of the themes is rethinking capitalism and transformations and capitalism that isn't serving society anymore she's asked about

it saying there needs to be moral capitalism talking about how it keeps her up at night whether vested interests are getting get in the way of that this is an interview with chrystia freeland from. an area huffington writers boycotted the two unions led the charge of the national writers union in the newspaper guild a lot of others joined did because she doesn't pay all over. there's a network of eight thousand unpaid bloggers who were upset over the fact that you know well paid three hundred fifteen million dollars for a huff post ariane huffington is making out very well and that money isn't getting down to any of her workers and this is the kind of person that's rallied they want to go on capitol hill and i just think how about your workers instead of making them you know report on the presidential elections for free when you just got bought by a.o.l. it's not you know the progressive nonprofit blog anymore all right last thing to let me just talk about a few figures that came out basically telling us that consumer spending was flat in

december but we also saw wages rise a little bit but that also means of people just aren't spending anymore and they're starting to save and so how do you look at that because on one hand it's probably not that bad of an idea for americans to start saving a little bit of money and stop using their credit cards all the time but without consumer spending and the economy won't grow it's a really fickle what i can say not all growth is good growth i know that's always the rallying cry it was certainly the rallying cry of davos but you have to differentiate between that and i think the country's problems the economy's problems are really multi-dimensional and i think it's whether you want to look at the short term or long term. i'm not i'm not the expert but i think that you know we do have to look at this a little bigger picture and a lot of times these numbers are month to month quarter to quarter and i think there's a lot structurally that needs to be dealt with and i think you know one consumer spending number is a very small part of the picture and our learned one thanks for fun and then sorry for for the spill there didn't you know all the water all of the. parts of the cars

and i so one republicans use the rethink cruise ship tragedy in italy to paint president obama as a coward and give the thousand flight school time and then happy hour one lawmaker has a change of heart after introducing a drug testing legislation and is ron paul going after as you can users from explain that on the brink. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've gone to the huge earth covered. in a touch like the world trade. ruins. for

thailand where time stands still. becomes a scene of nothing. the mysterious sons of russia. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time of war and tonight we're giving to the republican national committee chairman friends priebus is it over the weekend he want went on c.b.s.'s face the nation and this is what he had to say about president obama. in the end in a few months this is all going to be history and we're going to talk about our own little captains which is president obama who's abandoning the ship here in the

united states is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president what did you just say what did you call the president i call them captains you know the captain that led the ship in italy that's our own president who's stealing the american people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaign. even we think of it with the ships. as you are as diffuse bob schieffer was about who captains getting you know is i can give you a little primer he's the captain of the italian cruise ship the crash into the rocks in tuscany killing seventeen people the gap until it's off in a lifeboat and is now being charged with multiple counts of manslaughter this is a really tragic incident which brings us back to what priebus said which is that obama is america's a little skit it just makes perfect sense right seventeen people die in a foreign country in the arms he comes up with a nice little joke to link president obama to it a chance to call obama

a coward you just have to take it now you could tell how pleased he was at the line that was saying he just couldn't stop himself from chuckling chuckling while explaining it but i guess the death of seventeen people is only tragic and not political fodder when it happens in the us otherwise it's a political attack just waiting to happen now i'm the last one to say that priebus should be censored reprimanded for his comments i just think it's dumb to go on national t.v. comparing the president to the captain of a cruise ship that is being charged with manslaughter is just plain stupid it just gives you some insight and. how these people operate shamelessly and without care or tact that's why rents priebus the chairman of r. and c. is tonight to a time when. ok guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our chief producer jenny churchill and our t.

correspondent christy first now hello ladies thank you for joining me. ok let's start with this is an ad that we played before here on the show and this key just came from a you tube user who i think is a user name had the wrong call in it and so some people were saying a fan created it and it was it was fear mongering about jon huntsman because my god he speaks another language. which. runs all over. all right so this is what's happening now and i find this to be kind of odd and seeming to be a little out of character for the ron paul campaign because they're basically filing a complaint in court they're saying that the use of his name infringed his trademark and defamed him by improperly implying that he was behind it whereas i don't think

anybody thought it was behind it people thought it was just some random guy on you tube who was a ron paul supporter but you don't control your supporters and so they're actually trying to figure out who this youtube user is and get the ad pulled it seems very strange to me that ron paul would want to get the government involved in anything especially a speech matter or trying to find something out it seems very interesting but who knows maybe the huntsman campaign called and wanted to get behind it it's not about offensive i kind of really doubt that he would do something like this on huntsman's pressure. i have to believe that he really truly thinks that this person is trying to represent this ad as by him and that he feels like he has the right to sue i mean i think for him it would have to be a scenario where he thought you're tarnishing my name i have the right to know who this is and to go after them legally. it is strange don't you know that are so many people on facebook and twitter you know people that love ron paul love ron paul and i feel like there's so many people that have you know some aspects of ron paul in

their names that are in their words of course the i just love that it's what you saw here we are going after one you tube user where you know we don't know where so much of the money comes from when it goes to super pacs or you know some of these other organizations that are citizens united and all these ads come out but there is one you tube user and we have to go after him and get him anyway just. for me now to talk about something that's happening in indiana take a look at this. controversial proposal that would require drug testing for people on welfare is getting even more people upset today that's right lindsey mail the bill's main proponent says he would be ok if executives of companies getting tax breaks are tested as well. now not only that but so this republican lawmaker the legislation also now has taken it off because a democrat out of the piece of legislation a provision to it that would have said then fine federal law makers also have to

get drug tested legally you can't do that thanks to a case in the courts and so supposedly the republican says it is not necessarily against the idea he just has to fix the legal language you're. not against it i find it so interesting that these lawmakers are always so gung ho about you know drug testing poor people basically but when it comes to the biggest welfare recipients the legislators no no please don't try to test us i mean i think i think it's true and there's all this mumbo jumbo about having to change the wording and oh you know all reintroduced this on monday so the wording is just right. it's very interesting when this kind of stuff comes up i think it does as you say bring up the discussion of wanting to target these poor people i want to know who's going to pay for the multiple amount dozens if not more of the drug testers who would have to come and you know be employed by these statewide offices to drug test the thousands of people who would be required to wear with that money come from and it

ends up losing the state money we've done the story before because in florida they instituted the exact same thing and shockingly they found out that oh my gosh most of these people are actually on drugs and so now we just spent all this money drug testing them and it's really just a horrible horrible policy but i kind of like at least that some people are trying to stick it to them and say final drug test you too am a drug. the corporate executives that all get huge tax breaks and. serious never money when they're going to happen listen to this story so a british tourist had a little fun tweeting some stuff and so his tweet said one i'm set free this week for a quick gossip slash before i go and destroy america another tweet said three weeks today were to. totally in l.a. pissing people off on hollywood boulevard and diggin marilyn monroe that's what happens is that basically this guy when he arrived got held he told them there was a misunderstanding so that the marilyn monroe reference was

a family guy riff and also that the official or the term destroy is just british slang for going out to party and yet because of this he was still held on suspicion of planning to commit crimes and they had their passports confiscated i don't think just a royal just are it is slang. and destroyed tonight i think it's definitely taking it too far when you talk about tweets and facebook and that's the problem with the dames that we're living in is you know on one hand we've got all these people who are afraid for our country needing to look out for terrorists on the other hand. this is america we have all these social media outlets and you can say we're going on i think we have to say though i'm really glad this happened because the last thing we need in hollywood is another drunk person stumbling down the streets i mean i think we need to keep the british drunks away and i think what was supposed to happen happened here you know sorry you have your vacation so this is really. you know this is just going to shows maybe some people are going to make jokes was going to be all slang involving others have no idea and so sorry confiscating your

passport to save you're going to commit crimes i mean another another wasn't really rage at the white house it goes to show just how close all of our twitter accounts are probably being followed to unmonitored point good point i'm sure they like. tennessee tea party wants to change some of their history books take a look. it's mainly the issue of slavery that has some tea party members asking for changes i sat down with a local activist who tells me it's not so much what's being in the text but what's been left out and how that could affect your kids' future and future generations of americans. are if you want to know if they're so concerned about being left out as if they're not really sure they like the way that slavery was portrayed they think that slavery was seen as too. negative and that kids are going to grow up and be taught in history that slavery was a bad thing and they don't realize how much you contributed to the south's economy at the time yeah because i think the worst thing that you could ever think was that

you know if there weren't slaves the economy wouldn't have existed and actually we don't have to even look at history books we can look at alabama right now when you kick out all the illegal immigrants of the economy collapses i mean the bottom line is the slaves that did build this country in so many ways and we can say that and we can mention it but we should never mention it in a positive light as of. being green is very slavery you don't really know what it is slavery yeah because they don't want the kids to look back at the founding fathers and think oh my gosh they had slaves they were terrible people all i mean i don't think kids are able to make realistic thoughts on these things i was leading the other lives to yaz that they were afraid that they were going to think negatively of the founder of the family because i was so let's face it came about was a big ball i mean that's something that is worth talking about when it comes to the founding fathers as the for all of their principles of freedom and all their wonderful ideals that they were all slave owners alone i know you're getting ready to go to the next story but we actually switch stories because today we have to

cover the biggest story of the day the biggest story of the day your birthday having. to wait. for them to tell anybody. anything all right thanks guys. happy birthday. everybody right ladies that's it for tonight for tuning in make sure to come back tomorrow to read a community which took a stand against sopa now they're trying to take a stab at writing their own legislation to talk to reddit co-founder alexis ohanian about the free internet act in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the let me show you follow us on facebook twitter and on you tube. if you think it's odd you've got comped lastly on the show and coming up next is the.

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