an attack on freedom of religion and ended his rant with this really really arrogant comment i think we need to have a government that respects our religions i'm going to try to be lectured about respecting every other religion on the planet i like and respect and i am going to just. yeah newt says stop respect in all of those other religions just respect ours got a little question for you knew what exactly is ours looks like a history buff and is a reminder of what the ideals refounding fathers were that they put into the bill of rights of the constitution the first amendment congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof so that means that if you want to practice catholicism catholicism you can if your neighbor wants to be an atheist he can if your aunt wants to convert from judaism islam she can do it's one of the great things about living in america is that you have the freedom to believe whatever you want and nobody has the right sell you otherwise the government is meant to respect all religions so on the topic of

history here let's also take a little moment to remind you that our country is also founded on the principles of separation of church and state yet it the government can impede on religions that can't pick and choose so he does keep them completely separate now sadly this ideals in danger with the outcry from religious groups over birth control distribution women were pretty reproductive rights in general not to mention gay marriage but i don't think that newt's respect my religion but i won't respect yours comment would play out very well if he did become the commander in chief christianity is most popular religion in the united states that doesn't mean it's the only one and some people are actually fond of that whole freedom of religion thing so for new to claim that christianity is getting the shaft i mean come on it's just laughable when the war on religion is trying to keep statues of the ten amendments content commandments out of state courthouses i think that it's pretty clear the pendulum has swung re are in the christianity direction now and for new making an attack on president obama of respecting all religions. well it was

ludicrous only in the g.o.p. just being open minded individual mean that you're doing something wrong so for wanting christianity to be respected more than other religions practiced in the united states despite the fact that it goes completely against the constitution g.o.p. presidential candidate newt gingrich is tonight's told time when. our guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me tonight is lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r.t.e. and comedian lafayette right hey guys thanks for joining me as well why i welcome to the show but. we're going to start this evening off with reminding us ourselves what it's like when obama likes to sing a song. the was. loose was. now let's compare that

with what happens when mitt romney tries to sing a song. oh beautiful for spacious skies for. i mean. there are ads i just don't get any better or worse i guess i gotta give it a bit of press about obama going to he's black and over for the next turn. around but i'll hear the obama was impressed me he says saying. they're now being oppressed some even flow. saying it just like you know this recited the lyrics you know why it's a good life again that kind of thing but when the south al green was cheating well whatever i want to see mitt romney does and al green that yeah you know ok yeah bring it on guys. i think i should have a little what together i think it should be if they end up debating there should be

like a like now isn't jay z. kind of thing like i don't know they might start fighting and they can bring bill clinton out to play the saxophone will be great that'll work for you or like mitt you know you'll be back at the answers yeah i don't have the right words not to pick a word you get on my back. and oh yeah i think way to flatter making this happen. and that will really not even bring the intelligence level of the debate down all that much and now it's on thinking and having a battle speaking though the debates we know that newt gingrich kind of has like his move at this point is basically just attacking the journalists or the moderators that are trying to lead it. just one of my colleagues who've done a terrific job of answering an absurd question. first of all chris that i took seriously broach injunction to put it sort of the talking points and i wish she would put aside the gotcha questions and i'm frankly not interested in your effort to get republicans fighting each other. just such

a. good bit of this so is new thing is that he's saying that if he becomes the nominee he doesn't want journalists moderating the debates anymore he didn't say he wants to do it instead he just said i don't want journalists moderating the debates anymore because he doesn't need to have a second obama person in the debate well you know i think that it can't get much worse and this would just help the u.s. get lowered a few more rungs on the journalistic freedom that went from twenty to forty seven and now you know be just perfect if newt gingrich said you know no reporter is moderating the debates and then we can just drop even further which you were a journalist journalist like you know like a drone but it's like arguing which a girlfriend in the beauty shop you know you know going to win that kind of thing you know i mean if anything you know we should be moderators people have to use the why because i believe that all the people who are like completely know you know what i mean because they've got to. go out. and they all have those like thirty second responses and stuff though i mean it's ridiculous right i mean i. really

want to moderate the debate instead and i we give really an exhibit a lot to do with plenty of hell on this show too because they often don't do a very good job brian williams for example john king for example and offer you know ask stupid questions but how much lower can we go yeah exactly come on it was i was in a debate yeah. i. have to go to the bathroom and we will do the same job and it all worked out well for you yeah ok talk about i would start of the show it is basically talking about the fact that we got some disclosures today about how much super pacs are spending which is kind of an insane amount of super pac spending on ads going up sixteen hundred. percent since the same time since two thousand and eight but what it's also let us know is that there are some people and every now and then individuals that can basically just support an entire campaign and so it turns out that jon huntsman and the super pac that supported him which was call the i forgot it's called destiny thank you basically his daddy girl but.

that's just pathetic so i'm on seventy first of all the money in the super pac was from dad you just can't be any more of a people with money get better things just like the way you the world would learn an elementary school remember foamers was yeah and the kids in the class with the rich parents their parents. they were sure you know. the thing and their kids like me would just steal from them and. that's how that works goes all right well he's going to steal the dad's money now want to see. you know i think that's a really good example you grow up at the same thing and never changes but now you get over it if you are going to billionaire parents that try to buy you the presidency you haven't even daddy can succeed in buying in the presidency or even a spot this far well because i mean there are other reasons for that because i think jon huntsman is just hussein in ways with the devil republican party but this takes him down a few notches. come on he's a he how you say ansible and he's

a total who's daddy has to fund his election oh ok ok well it's like all that far yes some supporters let's talk and i was at his daughter's. sorry. lord i have a lot of opinions on this. i do actually. have one more story we want to do jane let me do yes i let her talk about me why not so last night i didn't even know the jay leno has this thing called coulda woulda should show and he decided basically it's like happy hour like we play clips and we talk about it as the exact same thing as a free play a clip of reading a story of american comedians talk about it. our next story very painful take a look this iranian guy twenty one year old funny really great idea to have a tattoo on his penis. and the story goes on to marry guys that are kind of out with us but of course we got to go when we're talking about penis tattoos yeah

welcome guys jay leno that's great it's amazing and it's kind of cute you were setting up happy hour and then they made their own happy hour with it i think i have a better right harry i agree however that our jokes about the iranian penis than they did. you don't go back and watch i'm serious when i was on your bed with iranian penis how do you joke around your penis i mean apparently to get a boner from here you had a problem with yeah they should just money this is so that people would have wrecked out this fall should they called it the would. the spokes people can be like omar. from the black people move the womb. ok whatever it would daisy that would you know if they can rap and they can sell the. if they want to go to the bathroom yeah. it's all about the would get you got a rabbit out of the word of thanks so much for joining me tonight that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure we come back tomorrow dylan ratigan host of the dylan ratigan show on m s n b c is going to be here to talk

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broadcasts and already says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. britain needs to lead the way in making sure we deployed to the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes in syria. cracking down on syria the u.n. is stepping up its game against the troubled country and considering intervention so is this a case of libya two point zero are two zone on the stasi a trick and i will tell us what's going on and what's a stage. and as the u.n. focus is on issues of broad of the u.s. honing in on the threats of its own and rewriting its list of enemies will tell you who's on top. and we all know that nothing comes for free not even freedom itself

but that price just went up with the authorization of the new ads e.a.a. bill so what exactly are you giving up that will explore. but not everyone is ready to sign away their rights occupy wall street protesters are still holding the line will speak to one iraq war veteran who has joined the ranks of this growing movement. it is tuesday january thirty first seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching. well the west now calling on syria president bashar al assad to step down a draft resolution formed by the arab league and backed by the u.s. and european union calls for assad to hand power over to his deputy the west says

the move is a bringing peace and stability to syria where violence between government forces and rebel fighters rages on now the u.s. and e.u. stand behind this resolution for russia is not on board moscow says it will block the u.n. resolution over fears the move will allow the west to militarily intervene in the country and russia is one of the five council members with the power to veto the resolution or if he's honest aasia churkin to joins us live now from our studio in new york so ana stasi i know they you have been following the u.n. security talks what is the latest what liz after an entire over three hours of sitting around talking around around table they're certainly not any steps closer to a unified position at the security council today as we've been reporting top notch diplomats spearheaded by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as well as her british and french counterparts

descended upon the united nations headquarters here in new york city to try to convince the rest of the international community including russia and china who do not support the position that the west in the west and the arab league are taking when it comes to the syrian crisis basically have been attempting to get the countries to agree this is not been the case of course one of the key elements of this resolution that we're talking about here is a regime change in syria and this is something that russia has been very vocal in saying it would not support the russian foreign minister says it's just not russia's job or the international communities for that matter to call for regime change take a listen. but it's not a part of russia's foreign policy to ask leaders to step down regime change is not . the decision must be solely syrian only syrians groups of syrians must gather at the negotiating table and hammer out a deal with the good if the demand is for him to go and he doesn't then what's next we call in the air force bombing we've seen that already and the security council

will never approve this i guarantee it well this resolution that the arab league and the us are really pushing for says that unless the syrian leader steps down the he will have fifteen days to do so or the international community would be allowed to conduct any further measures and this is something that's very very frightening to russia and china who say listen this is just a repetition of the libyan scenario and this is something we don't want to happen importantly russia has suggested that the opposition and the syrian government meet together in moscow and talk and void any sort of escalation of this conflict as well as any sort of resolution that could potentially harm the people on the ground now u.s. secretary of state clay n. as well as other diplomats are urging russia to allow this vote on syria but i mean they're not on board right now what would it take for russia to agree to this . well you know i think what it would take of this point is

a document that would be pleasing not just for the u.s. and the west and the arab league but also the veto holding members russia and china they're not they don't just hold this veto power that blocks whatever resolution the united states want the point is that russia has been involved for a very long time in negotiating with syria in really trying to resolve the crisis as well and it's a significant player in this because what essentially is calling for is talks negotiations and avoiding any sort of escalation do not do further harm is really the key element that russia has been calling for so essentially what it would take liz is for the diplomats to get together and make sure that whatever document they vote on it's not just something that the u.s. in the west backs but also important players like russia and china who do have reasons to what they're calling for now the u.s. is presenting this as a humanitarian effort we heard from playing today she said quote we all have

a choice stand with the people of syria and and the region or become complicit and allowing violence there but you know russia and china they are not buying this argument why not. well liz you know this whole veil of humanitarian mission goals that the u.s. really likes to talk about unfortunately history has shown that this excuse to stand united with the people as the you know is the united states likes to put it has not always played out this way we have to remember that when the libyan situation was playing out the international community led by the u.s. was trying to convince members of the security council that there's no way that the resolution that they're backing would do anything that impose a no fly zone and certainly what we have seen was a full blown military intervention in libya by nato forces and the united states and this is something that just did not work out the way the diplomats were saying it would so you know this humanitarian mission flag can be pulled out only

a certain number of times by the united states before somebody cries wolf so the other countries are really being careful with cautious right now and taking all of the possible developments into consideration and the south i thank you for keeping us updated there in new york that was our correspondent on the south. and for the very latest on this u.n. security council meeting you should follow on a stasia twitter at nastasia. so what is behind the bloodshed in syria r.t. sara for it is on the ground there with the latest. with the sounds of gunfire and. oh yeah face first from the streets and the increasingly loud international opinions britain needs to lead the way in making sure we tighten the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes on syria because. the syrian case has developed as every side wants to push

away the responsibility to another tossing the ball back and forth. in the last few days the situation has become so unstable the finding people willing to talk quite know his present difficulties. we've had tanks entering in firing and just we've had six people who've died we travel to the suburbs where some of the clashes have breaking out to try to get a clearer picture of what had been happening here in the last few days in one of the damascus at the moment now we were travelling. we thought. that we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel at the moment the situation goes to show you really. don't know what's going on in these areas even the people who are living in these areas don't really have the situation at the moment we make it into the suburbs using back the opposition that just last week had control of

some of these areas have now gone underground so there was a funeral for a resident of who died in the fire during his funeral people and his relatives were voicing slogans and called for freedom so someone was shot during the funeral and we had to go and hide from the security forces. were taken to. the. other members joined as well and has talked to people they know just been arrested in the changes in the atmosphere us. so with such uncertainty right now it seems mistrust is roy. it seems not to have convinced the free syrian army that coming closer to the capital would be simpler now this is harmful to the cause of bringing peace to syria and. everyone it seems is no waiting to see what if any outcome of the un's briefings by the arab league's will

having to halt. the whole reconciliation talks it's not want to be simply dismissed as many have already done they have do political aims they have two political reasons for. for feeding the conflict in syria and i think they don't want that they're not interested in due form and nor are they interested in democracy or freedom was the government accepted the invitation received mixed reactions from the opposition they size of being taken in the past in calling for a syrian solution to a syrian problem that it's repeatedly failed to communicate no opportunities for dialogue are running out fast. and with such desperate pleas from many people here the opposing sides continue to make it clear they don't want to listen to the cools the international action it's just going to keep getting louder so.

you know this. well let the indefinite detention and torture begin it hasn't even been a month and president obama signed the controversial bill into law and we're already seeing it become a reality the national defense authorization act or n.d.a. as it's called allows the government to detain and torture without trial anyone accused of having terrorism and. right now at least one president. released a new law massage and i want to. know has spent the last decade in prison a person. in a stand where he says he was tortured into admitting he had ties to terrorism and for the past five years he has been detained at guantanamo bay all this time he has been fighting to get his day in court but just this month the supreme court ruled that under the new law he is able to remain detained so is this just the beginning of more indefinite detention and torture here in the u.s.

joining me now is david swanson. welcome david so not even a month later the government is already using the law to justify the indefinite detention of a prisoner is this a preview of things to come. i think it is i think it's also not a complete change that the united states has as you know long been detaining prisoners under various legal justifications and court rulings and executive orders no one has been released without the government's decision through sheer stalling and various arguments this has been the policy and the hypocrisy could not be more stark as that as the president of yemen guilty of similar offenses is brought here on the claim that it's for medical treatment as this resolution on syria argues among other things that they must release arbitrarily detained prisoners as if the united states were going to do that and of course bigger than guantanamo is bob

graham where the president worsened this bill with a signing statement declaring he needed no legal process whatsoever to detain people forever and ever at bagram and immediately received resistance from president karzai who said turn them all over within a month and you know when president obama signed off on this bill his good side i had some reservations regarding certain provisions on the regulators and in the ten sen of suspects and one month later those concerns are already. behind bars well there was a great deal of misunderstanding in this regard as the president himself had insisted on these powers insisted on no exclusion for u.s. citizens and wanted the freedom not to ship all prisoners into military detention but to detain them and handle them through nonmilitary cia and other

means as well which he called flexibility which some people might call tyranny and so he he had the bill worsened both in congress and in the conference committee and further again through his signing statement which was obscured by the fact that in a very. strange and unprecedented manner he also in that same signing statement promised not to use some of the powers that he was here by creating for all future presidents of course that's not legally binding he will use these powers if he sees fit as will his successors so you're saying president obama has already broken some of the promises. well to the extent that people got the impression that he was concerned about being given the power to detain anyone or in particular u.s. citizens understanding of course that this is the very same president who openly asserts and has exercised the power to kill anyone including u.s.

citizens including juveniles. that was a misunderstanding and he certainly has gone back on this which which echoes the experience of his last presidential election during which many people understood him to be making promises that went far beyond anything he actually explicitly made and then were disappointed when he went back on those so-called promises that we are already seeing the consequences of this bill per credit access and people concerned about how this is an attack on on our rights here in the u.s. and is there any hope of repealing some of them are controversial aspects of the spell well there's always hope although hope has been given a horrible name by this president it's going to take a major movement that does not bow down before either party or any elected official or sit on its hands for the better part of a year because there's an election but actually pushes in a principled uncompromising strategic and nonviolent way to change these things and

there is the beginning of that kind of movement but these issues are not being discussed on u.s. television networks still thank you for doing so. david why aren't these issues being discussed on these networks than we're hearing all these debates one debate after another and we're not hearing too much about this why not. well one obvious answer is that when the two big parties the democrats and the republicans agree on something it's not considered the controversy and it's not considered a debate or something for the news there also is very little desire to offend those who who are desired guests for talk shows there's a great tendency to to appeal to to those individuals and there there's a lack of investigative reporting and so among the confused and bewildered on this

topic are members of the media themselves and their etc this is one thing that republicans and democrats agree on i mean they've been split on a lot of things we've seen and now from the debt ceiling. to taxes to these other areas but when it comes to something like this where when can be seen as such an attack on american civil liberties why is there an agreement on something like that as well i mean among elected officials fuera you're talking about a very few individuals the democratic party consists of president barack obama just about everybody else in high elected office in the democratic party tends to follow him or not to challenge him to vociferously and the republican party bows down to its leadership i'm not talking about the population of the united states which is indeed very much split and to some degree along partisan lines.