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 . yeah new it 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 to tell you otherwise the government is meant to respect all religions it's 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 will 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 respecting all religions. well it was ludicrous

only in the g.o.p. it is being an open minded individual i 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 of 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 this is their advice is 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 be there bo mama was impressed me he's just saying. then i'll be a precipice awesome even flow. only i was saying it just like you know just recited the lyrics from life for good life again. with the south al green with cheating well yeah whatever i want to see mitt romney he's an al green that yeah i don't 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 state of the a.o. like nas in 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 will work for you or like me you know you'll be back at the answers yet none of the hate work that you pick up or do you get on my back. and oh yeah i think we have a flat or making this happen. and that will really not even bring the intelligence level of the debate down all that much more 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 you would put aside the gotcha questions and i'm trying to not insure your effort to get republicans fighting each other. ok we did about 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 what would you want a journalist journalist like you know like a drone but it's like arguing with your 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 biased you know what i mean because they go. so you got to take it out and they all have those like thirty second response stuff though i mean it's ridiculous right i mean i. really want to moderate the debate instead and i we give

really an exaggerated 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 work out well yeah ok let's 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 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 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.

that's just pathetic so i'm on seventy first say of all the money in the in the super pac was forget you just can't be any more of a people were money better things just like the way 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. the thing and kids like me would just steal from the. best you know 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 yes you get over it if you are going to billionaire parents that try to buy you the presidency you haven't even daddy couldn't 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 to say it in ways with the devil republican party but this takes him down a few notches. come on he's going to say ansible and he's

a total whose daddy has to fund his election oh ok ok looks like about far get some supporters let's talk you know is that his daughter's. sorry. lord i have a lot of opinions on this. you actually. have one more story you want to do jane let me do yes or talk about me why not so last night i did you 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 us doing and 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 under there you guys that are kind of out of the nose but of course we got to go i cried 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 one hundred that are jokes about the iranian penis than they did to you but i don't go back and want to hear about what i was going to bed with iranian penis as you joke iranian penis i mean apparently to get a boner for him you had a problem with it yeah they should just money this is so that we would have wrecked out this fall should they called it the would like the spokes people can be like omar. was the other guys and i from the black people move the wood was like ok whatever would daisy that would you are hearing gave me enough that they can rap and they can sell the. if they don't have to go to the bathroom yeah. it's all about the wood again i got a rabbit out of the end of it thanks so much for joining me tonight that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in at making the come back tomorrow dylan ratigan host of the dylan ratigan show on m s n b c is going to be here to talk about his

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welcome to the big picture i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. you need to know this polls are closing in florida and it looks like mitt romney is back on top in the republican primary race whether voters in the sunshine state tonight realize that or not they aren't choosing between candidates and choosing mitt romney or newt gingrich or rick santorum they are even choosing people tonight voters in florida just like they did in south carolina and in new hampshire and iowa they are choosing between special interest groups not candidates but special

interest groups this is what citizens united has done to our democracy and to our elections we no longer have candidates running for office we have interest groups promoting the candidates that they own running for office interest groups like wall street or big oil like the for profit health insurers that all have the power to buy our elections now thanks to the supreme court their citizens united decision so given that who really won in florida tonight let's look at the numbers i mean pretty straightforward stuff in the last republican presidential primary about forty eight well exactly forty eight point seven million dollars was spent and at this point and six hundred sixty six thousand five hundred fifty seven ads have been run this year this year the candidates have only run thirty nine thousand four hundred twenty nine ads and a forty percent decrease in advertising and they've only spent thirteen point seven million dollars seventy two percent drop. so what's going on here seventy two

percent drop in candidates by in ads i thought this was the year of massive negative advertising that the voters across the nation would be in and bit dated would see the ads well they are but the candidates themselves aren't the ones running the ads instead it's special interest groups in two thousand and eight for example special interest groups ran just seventeen hundred ads seven hundred sixty three specifically at this point the election for about one point one million dollars chump change nothing but this year thanks to citizens united those special interest groups have aired thirty thousand four hundred forty two ads that's a sixteen hundred percent increase sixteen hundred twenty six percent to be exact and they've spent fifteen point two million dollars doing it that's almost a twelve hundred eighty one percent increase so really what's going on here is the candidates are running anymore special interest groups the super pacs they're the ones actually running for president american crossroads or americans for prosperity

just these two come. super pacs have spent eight point eight million dollars on ads around the country and where they're getting their money from american crossroads top fund funders seven million bucks from texas homebuilder bob perry big real estate two million bucks in the c.e.o. of chief oil and gas trevor reese jones big oil a million dollars to the dixie rice agriculture big agribusiness and americans for prosperity according to media matters they've received over five million dollars in the koch brothers the richest of the rich people and the biggest of the big industries are the ones actually running this election in florida over thirteen thousand television ads have been run on behalf of mitt romney gingrich's only aired two hundred and most of those romney ads were not paid for by romney or his campaign they came from a super pac called restore our future and guess is that one of the top contributors to restore our future. surprise wall street billionaire hedge fund manager john

paulson noorani is running for president wall street and the hedge fund managers who want to protect their capital gains tax loopholes are the ones really running for president so tonight mitt romney is going to give a big victory speech but the real winner the big one or wall street. in two thousand and ten just like every two years every single seat in the house of representatives was up for reelection and thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision earlier that year outside corporate front groups were given free rein to spend unlimited amounts buying the elections which they did over three hundred million dollars was spent the two thousand and ten midterm election that's more than a four hundred percent increase in outside spending from the last midterm election in two thousand and six and because most of that outside money came from big corporations that want deregulation and billionaires who want tax cuts tea party

republicans won in a lot landslide victory and have since defended their corporate and billionaire donors relentlessly they've blocked the most meter of tax increases on millionaires and billionaires they've blocked attempts to cut off oil subsidies for transnational oil corporations they've tried to destroy elements of dodd frank the wall street reform law that gives shareholders finally a say in c.e.o. pay and ends too big to fail bank bailouts and all the while they've been attacking working people voting to end medicare and replace it with a voucher program to cut home heating assistance for the poor and holding unemployment benefits and tax cuts for the middle class hostage in exchange for extending the bush tax cuts for billionaires. it's literally the best house of representatives money could buy meanwhile in the senate we're only thirty seven of the one hundred seats faced reelection in two thousand and ten there are still senators who haven't felt the wrath of citizens united who are bought off and who are trying to do the right thing one of those

a senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island led by senator whitehouse democrats in the senate are pushing for a vote on what president obama has or curb referred to as the buffett rule it's a rule that will require anyone who pay makes more than a million bucks a year to pay a minimum of thirty percent in federal income taxes regardless of where their income comes from keep in mind the top tax rate now for rate right now for people like warren buffett's secretary is thirty five percent so millionaires and billionaires will actually still pay less than she does but with the buffett rule in place people like mitt romney and paris hilton who make their money sitting on their butts around the pool waiting for the dividend checks to arrive will finally pay their fair share in taxes and not just the mac current maximum of fifteen percent senator whitehouse is gone the legislation the pain a fair share act so can such a proposal break a republican filibuster in the senate and actually get consideration in a bought off house of representatives here to offer his take on this is

conservative commentator david selig from them from our new york studios david great to see you thank you good also hoffman it's always a pleasure. what the mud. the. capote's the telecast comes out of the heartland. ok. why do you hate warren buffett's secretary. well i don't hate warren buffett's secretary at all but the fact of the matter is your viewing audience and much of america is being hoodwinked this is a nonsensical argument and i feel like warren buffett has really become almost this and feeble the old man who the president has paraded out in like a soviet style show trial is almost a useful idiot for this nonsensical argument the fact of the matter is on earnings income where you go out and work they'll still pay the regular income rate this is

the long term capital gains rate that should be a lesser amount and by the way on january first of two thousand and thirteen it's going up a whopping ten percent that will mean we're going to be taxed at twenty five percent why doesn't the president say how he's going to spend this money rather than just trying to kick the investor square in the fanny tom ok so you do you agree with grover norquist that raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires is an impeachable offense. it should be. ok. your argument if i recall our previous conversations about the reason why people receiving their income sitting on the bottom around the pool waiting for the dividend checks to arrive is is maximally taxed at fifteen percent rather than the thirty five percent that warren buffett's secretary makes is because it's double taxation because the corporation pays taxes on their income before they distribute their dividends their right and well let's only part of the tom i would

remind you that if warren buffett work see pays the top rate as well but remember these super investors that you're talking about they really walk in lockstep with the government they are responsible for much of the opportunity and taxing them onerous taxation will quite a quite literally grind our economy to a halt you know this it ministration has basically minutely if you say most of us are yes or if if warren buffett can't well. that makes no sense to me if you're saying that this is double taxation exxon mobil paid nineteen billion dollars in dividends in two thousand and ten they paid no us income taxes general electric paid out about twenty billion dollars in dividends they paid no us a tax of taxes this isn't about the scray small and that's because they bamboozled this it ministration previously they always paid taxes and in this case they did not why is that because the c.e.o. of general electric played

a couple of rounds of golf with the commander in chief because it was a heart crony deal the first of all a lot of these corporations haven't paid taxes in decades and you and i both know that do that and secondly those that have known that in particular in two thousand and two thousand and ten weren't paying taxes they were doing so because the market crash and they were able to claim losses but they're still paying dividends and people are still getting those dividend checks they're still paying a maximum fifteen percent you know c.b.s. new york times poll shows that a majority of americans and seventy six percent. favor the buffett rule i think if somebody is making a million dollars a year like mitt romney does or or fifteen or twenty or thirty million dollars a year like mitt romney does that instead of paying thirteen percent in income tax on it they should pay the thirty five percent the mitt romney secretary pays i don't don't want to give russians are there really no i was argument absolutely not and i would like to address that issue the people who feel that way they should also say to this administration and perhaps the next one how are you spending this money i mean tom if they were to seize all of that money they'd probably just waste

it there's no accountability he says in his you out of control or innes why should paris hilton in the wall harris a lower tax rate on money that they literally. fell into their laps and they got sitting around the pool when you know paris hilton in her bikini why should she pay fifteen percent maximum income tax whereas the guy who's digging up the street in front of their new york city is going to pay up to thirty five percent it makes no sense where you don't eric and that's just not true and you know it because that guy who's digging up that street that hard working proletariat as it were when he or she invests their money they are going to appreciate that lower tax rate rather than to get raped and david that is what he second point working people are investing their money in for a one case which are tax deferred until they retire this is this is this this is a money this is a tax this is a tax rate for the rich david you and i both know this is an attack on the middle

class tom and don't let them fool you ok saying they are in essentially. the middle class who are slowly reliant you have all these seniors who rely on that money they're going to be taxed right into the poor house it's not right it won't why don't the david if i did you know you're a senior who's making twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year on your investments you're not going to be paying thirty five percent income tax. we're going to the second the second part of this argument that the president's been making is we have to close these tax loopholes and i think they do and even i'm sorry we're out of time here but i think we could agree that we need to close tax loopholes ok. the only tax loophole is what section one fifty two which allows the illegal aliens to claim dependents in mexico ok david thank you you thank. coming up tonight on the rest of the show the u.n. releases a startling report on the world's population growth what do they say is needed to

keep us from wiping out the planet and ourselves also the effects of the foreclosure crisis often go over looked at one particular group of americans to see who they are and who have really been hurt the most and new was able to squirm his way out of his open marriage a jam or the latest obstacle facing him for a lot more challenging. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the uk. i think the bombing is beatable one well.

whenever government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you give them your freedoms. 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 or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

those screwed our planet in a new report just published the united nations is warning that rapid population growth which will likely see the number of humans living on the planet explode to nine billion by two thousand and forty will condemn billions more to a life of poverty the un's high level panel on global sustainability quiet cautions in their report we run the risk of condemning up to three billion members of our

human family to a life of endemic poverty by twenty thirty the un estimates the world will need to produce fifty percent more food forty five percent more energy and thirty percent more water to sustain more people on the planet. one key is energy because without energy can't produce food or distribute water nowadays and needing to produce forty five percent more energy from fossil fuels to sustain nine billion people might be impossible as more and more scientists admit the peak oil has been reached worldwide so what does all this mean for our crowded planet and what can be done about it eli clifton joins us now from our studios in new york he's the national security reporter at think progress eli welcome. thanks for having me great great to have you with us how and why is this population growth and the demands for water and energy and food associated with a national security issue for the united states well i think first of all when we when we talk about these numbers while we are talking about

a population increase of seven to nine billion by two thousand and forty perhaps what we need to really be looking at as being the most interesting increase here is actually in the size of the global middle class which is going to increase by three billion by twenty thirty now that's really what's going to drive a lot of these these increased demands for food and energy and water and then to go to your national security question this is the type of discussion we need to be having now is how are we going to address these increased demands which are going to strain our natural resources and the global economy in ways that it really hasn't been tested before and in fact i believe was the world watch institute did the math some years back and found that if everybody in the world. is six billion of us seven billion that was whatever it is now everybody in the world live the lifestyle of a poverty level family in america as i recall the number of the threshold they were using was like fourteen thousand so.