has decided to miss. well this morning in an attempt to quell the growing fear over a birth control rule that would require health insurance plans including those offered by catholic universities hospitals and charities to offer contraceptives the white house announced that they would be announcing an accommodation to this rule now the so-called accommodation puts the burden of the contraception coverage on the health insurance companies rather than the religious institutions requiring the companies to offer free services directly to women but if accommodation well it still wasn't good enough for many people out there in the media specifically to fox news oh no you see they've been having a little bit too good of a time getting up a controversy around this subject to let it go now president obama offering up what white house aides are calling an accommodation not a compromise to his controversial birth control policy there's nothing more. geared

to some of these people than than ordering them to pay for something or their you know their employers to pay for something that they don't agree with on religious group what does this say about the decision making in the power of the presidency when you have the vice president apparently who disagreed with this initial decision and you have that chief of staff bill daley who by the way no longer works for president obama is there any connection there to the fact that he's not there and this issue it's not about contraception this is about religious liberty this is about you telling the catholic church what to do in defiance of their beliefs and so the media unfortunately really covered it the way the president was framing it not as a religious liberty issue and. now i'm not exactly sure what media that woman over there has been watching because i've been watching a lot and there's that one single discussion that i've seen that's focused solely on women's health rather than religious liberty now the most that i've seen is a lone pundit trying to shift the conversation back to stay. and the back to

a discussion about the fact that ninety eight percent of catholic women have used contraception at some point in their lives i still haven't seen anybody make sure to point out that this rule before was altered wouldn't apply to churches but to church run institutions hospitals huge universities that employ thousands of people of multiple religions now and so what i've seen is a concerted effort across the republican party and of course its mouthpiece fox news to create as much hype and hysteria around this issue as possible it's fox doing what they do best right picking a culture war issue and then going to the mattresses every host every show the same thing over and over again you're under attack by the president it's nonstop right they've been doing it for hours they've been doing it for days on end and i guess it's great t.v. nothing gets a crowd more riled up on a social issue which i can attest to from checking out see packed this week but the problem is all may not seem all that shocking that fox news is leading this cycle the rest of the media is gladly hopping on the bandwagon there ready and willing to

pretend the birth control rule is the most important issue facing americans right now. his rivals have been calling it a war on religion is now the president appears ready to walk back a new policy that would be a catholic institutions responsible for their employees birth control costs the administration will not require religious employers to cover contraception costs for their employees they'll be able to get it indirectly from the health insurance growth of these work with these institutions seems like the white house completely underestimated the response that this decision would get from both the the catholic community the religious community and the right. yet a third turns out that c.n.n. m.s.m. b.c. they're just a game for a culture wars fox is like nobody can bear to be left out for them it's a breath of fresh air from all the real news right war a stagnant a stagnant economy and shockingly enough fox's shepard smith was the only one to actually pick up on that. the sense is that the economy may be improving and

suddenly we get a social issue popping up like this how this happened. so isn't it interesting how that happens in fact set really might be on to something we've had one good jobs and for all of a sudden the economy is no longer making good t.v. now they've ever really spent enough time talking about the true fact of the housing crisis of the recession on millions and millions of americans but i mean this is just too transparent they spent a couple of days pretending to care about the people that the positive jobs report left out the millions of americans that are become so discouraged that they left the workforce the disturbingly high number of people that have been unemployed for six months or a year or more but who cares about them when you've got a wage issue ready to exploit so an attack on religious liberty indignant men and women splashed across the airwaves pretending that their religious freedom is at stake i have to think that there are a lot more important things going on in the world which is why i've dedicated such a little coverage to this issue here on my show there's a drumbeat louder and louder for an attack on iran syria is on the brink and yesterday the government came to a twenty six billion dollars settlement with the five biggest banks which

essentially screwed homeowners hell in the u. six unemployment that's still fifteen point one percent so yeah the birth control rule matters matters to me it matters to women around the country but it does not warrant twenty four hour hysterical coverage from the media the church's past obama responded let's move on but this is just something of the m.s.m. just can't give up this is a story that you know that they're going to miss. well congress is finally acting on an insider trading ban with both the house and the senate overwhelmingly approving bills this week and you could say that it's a good sign that they're finally realizing the frustration that americans have with what they see as corruption on capitol hill but the senate's version with the changes released by eric cantor to the stock act leaves out the political intelligence industry an industry that tracks action on capitol hill and sell that information to investors so members of congress pacific republicans are patting

themselves on the back acting like they've done the right noble thing are they still leaving wall street's role untouched kind of like that foreclosure fraud settlement that was announced yesterday and thought alike that held by the federal reserve so that all of the same old game and discuss with me is anthony randolph though director of economic research for the reason foundation anthony thanks so much for joining us tonight sir i mean what do you think in general right suddenly we have an insider trading ban in congress coming up the president mentioned in the state of the union sixty minutes did that piece but they're acting like they're heroes they're regulating themselves it is astounding to me that we are two and a half months after this issue sort of surfaced in the mainstream news and people still think that insider trading rules never applied to congress in the first place insider trading rules have always applied to congress this stock does and almost does nothing with the exception of you have to know the reporting every thirty days what you have in your portfolio as opposed to your it's some small things like you

members of congress can't participate you know an i.p.o. prior to it going to going public but really this is a massive big to do about nothing are all of us the breaking down for us because i think of the general understanding out there is that congress members were doing this completely legally and they did not have any rules barring them the insider trading rules apply to every single citizen in united states we have rules against members of congress. and there staff are citizens of the united states and so these rules apply to that now we have additional rules that apply to congress to to be more forthcoming you know i don't have to disclose to the whole world what my portfolio has in it but if you're a member of congress and every year you've got to show this as you see tracks the they're looking for any you know any insider trading and so when we see in china trading happening on the hill if it's happening more than we're going to jump on it and that's where this whole thing has come from but the idea that the stock act is somehow going to prevent anything different this is this this you know there are

things that are i mean i'm not saying that there's nothing bad going on i'm saying this does nothing to change the status quo it does nothing to to move the ball any forward no progress has been made here we do actually have now an investigation though right again and there baucus which is the hero of interesting there's an investigation get spencer baucus and maybe it's going to be found out that he did something but we're talking about you know the trade specifically with spencer baucus and i'm not going to defend him whatsoever because i think that there's a lot of problematic things that he's done but we're talking about real pittances here which sure that's wrong and so if we highlight things wrong but we're talking about you know ten thousand dollar tree and whatnot this is the amount of focus has been put on this is completely unwarranted relative to the other massive problems massive corruption things that go on crony capitalism washington it's not to say that this is not bad stuff and saying that this is a smokescreen away from what real corruption is in d.c. i would say then let's talk about the political intelligence industry which

democrats are really upset about being left out of the stock act i mean do you think that represents a little bit of the bigger picture though right because that activity on capitol hill that then is being sold yes but even the political intelligence industry isn't that big. i mean were you want to look at you know some serious corruption things you start looking at you know energy subsidies and start looking at some of the i mean you look at both of the left and right for the for the president some of his biggest donors. have these are getting these massive government subsidies or weren't written into the law until his administration took power let's take a look at something like that because that's on the order of multiple billions not multiples of ten thousand you know we want to look at some of the some of the republicans who you know their ideology would suggest that they should want to get rid of fannie mae and freddie mac. and yet they stand firm because of the amount of money that they get from the housing lobby that somehow they're conservative everything but this one particular issue and that's you know multi-trillion dollar bill there are some really big corruption things you know the political intelligence most of that really isn't

even that problematic and what few problematic things that there are it's not worth this effort let's spend all of our effort that much bigger targets i would think that right because. it's i think it's frustrating for a lot of americans and it makes them feel like the corruption is more rampant when you see individual examples right of the congress now that decided that now maybe is richer because of certain information that he was privy to if their entire industries that are being fueled out there thanks to the exact same thing that it's a much bigger problem so i want to talk about something that was reported today that apparently the fed had auction dop a certain number of treasuries and they didn't think really and they only allowed three banks to even come in and our securities excuse me they only allowed three banks to come in and be in on this bidding and it would have been transparent see what happened this was all after the taxpayers bailed out aig i.g.s. or technically it's all about how much more money you can get back to the taxpayers to write specifically this is selling a g.

related assets at the fed oh and that they you know that they held a close option which i haven't taken the time to actually look into the law. so if you come across me i don't think that they actually broke a law here but this is you know this isn't a serious. transparency i mean why would we not want more people bidding on these assets you know that's only going to that's almost certainly only going to drive the price up and if the fed knows something to where if they let this be a public option in the drive the price. well that's probably something we should talk about one way or another this is highly problematic and this is on the order of billions of dollars and by the way those it is barclays the. only one that it winds up getting sold to goldman sachs you know you want to look at some shady things going on that. one lacks highly problematic yeah i can't let you go without asking about what you think of this settlement foreclosures that i am we we talk a lot about yesterday and we gave a pretty hard time but. here's the thing that no one's really talking about in that

is. a huge part of the deal is the principal write down seventeen billion a principal write downs and because you don't get banks are going to get dollar for dollar on those write downs you know winds up being an estimate of around thirty billion dollars in modifications people's loans the thing is is the banks are not going to be the ones that feel that for the most part it's going to be mortgage backed security investors themselves which are pension funds insurance companies for one k.'s at the end of the day most of this deal is the taxpayers bailing out the taxpayers the banks are giving if you want blood this was not the deal to get blood the trade was fantastic for the financial services committee and i think that it completely missed the point in that it's it's not one it's presuming a lot of guilt towards particular bank activities and it's going to give a lot of money to people who actually made their mistakes they were conned into anything and it's stepping it's not stepping back to look at some of the real serious problems that that went on to do with the mortgage disclosure and during

the whole build up of the bubble we may disagree on some of the reasons why it was problematic but i think it was highly problematic. good point anthony thanks much for joining us. just ahead of the show from the software that could create huge problem for the government to hunting down pirates and anonymous officials are trying are tying the enemy caves of nuclear scientists at the same. i make a that some of us lawmakers want to support. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough earth emergency department beds and not enough nurses commandos there to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of

los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to turn it around so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so 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 tom harkin welcomes a big picture. protecting copyrighted material the goal of governments across the world that are trying their best to come up with laws which clamp down on piracy and leave anybody link to file sharing. sites facing serious punishment after employees upload and pirate bay have all found their websites shuttered and themselves in trouble with the law file sharing programs like bt junkie voluntarily shut down because they don't want to end up in the same boat so seeing the war against copyright infringement ramp up in recent months many of thought that sites like line where napster other file sharing programs would simply become a thing of the past but here is one pro or excuse me one program that might change all of that it's called trippler and the software that many are calling

a game changer and we should start by noting that this torrent client has been around for a few years but it's blended in with the other programs until now so traveler doesn't rely on servers search portals trackers or domains the way the other programs do instead when a person searches for a torrent file their results will show peers who have that file on their own computers and cut out the central database altogether but that's not the only reason the program stands out aside from a central server the software doesn't have any moderators all the files are monitored by the users themselves and the channels used to share these files can be given a vote or have votes retracted based on the quality of the file now the more votes that come with the channel the more likely it'll pop up as a top search result for other users and also has a new feature that will let you edit the names of these files within these public channels so if you don't want it to feature the name of the movie you can label it as something else because there's no central location or server for the software many are saying that there's no way for the government to try and seize trippler dribbler leader dr paul's claims of the only way to take it down is to take the

internet down so i guess it's like the old saying when there's a will there's a way and we all know that techies hackers whatever you want to call them are very savvy in their field and frankly they're always two steps ahead of regulators let's be honest lawmakers on capitol hill are the most knowledgeable when it comes to anything dealing with computers. and the illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance that i can get. the internet is not something that you just tell me something i'm not a big truck it's just a series of shows. you don't understand those children in the field their fields when you put your message on a kitchen light is going to be delayed by they want to go to the actual an enormous amount of material. i don't think any of us have a facebook page or. she. tweet whatever that is. yeah those are some of the guys that get to decide on bills like pippen sopa and i

think that it's pretty clear that they don't really know what they're talking about but at least we saw house representative jason chaffetz admit the most of our elected officials are computer literate during the hearings on sopa. we're basically going to reconfigure the internet how it's going to work without we're given the nerds i would hope that we get everybody pause to say maybe we ought to ask submerges what this thing really goes. but for some reason the rest of our lawmakers they still think that they can make informed educated decisions about internet freedom based on what little knowledge they have of the world wide web is it stubbornness is it ego perhaps but my advice to those in the government are trying to regulate the internet try understanding how it works first. now since the latest murder of a nuclear scientist in iran questions of who exactly is waging this cold war covert war are finally being asked of many believing as you prime suspects might be the us

and israel all this week and n.b.c. exclusive report cited to anonymous officials claiming that the m e k or the would you have caught or involved and or if they were financed trained and armed by israel secret service of any cain or iranian exile group that since the ninety's has been on the state department's list of terrorist organizations but in recent years you've seen a large lobbying effort a bipartisan what i might add of prominent officials being paid by the i mean to speak in support of them and call for them to be taken off the list so if what these anonymous officials say is true does not change anything joining me to discuss it is jack rice former cia officer and criminal defense attorney jack thanks so much for joining us tonight and. i am always a little weary and a little skeptical when a report comes from anonymous officials people who don't necessarily want to name them selves but at the same time we did see some documents leaked before there were actual documents that were put out from the bush administration also tying the

mossad possibly to certain groups to the murders of iranian scientists so what do you think here well the key is kerry has been around in. southern iraq for about forty years even back to the overthrow of the shop and yes the u.s. state department did in fact name them as terrorists back in the ninety's and the interesting thing about this story to me is that one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist i mean that's really the highlight here and i think you alluded to it absolutely correctly that there is a wide group of american officials both left and right who are trying to find a way to live that terrorism manal because let's face it as long as they're killing the kind of people we want dead it's not terrorism right. why it's a really interesting thing to look into to the can you tell us more about the history or how long it is that we've seen people like howard dean and rudy giuliani you know calling for any k.

to be taken off this left like was there a certain year when we really solve this start and pick up well it's been going on for some time now but we've really seen this shift especially after after nine eleven and really we started seeing more of this and i think really the real reason is this is again the problem that we had with the emmy case is this we have to really go back into the seventy's and even into the eighty's what we found was that the m.e. k. was really set up to fight the shawl and that's really how it started well what happened was after we found that. i meet came in and actually took control what happened was they started fighting them but but before that they started killing essentially americans and those supporting the shah because that's the reason we were there in the first place and so they became the bad guys and then they sort of hid out if you will in southern iraq well since that time they've basically been relatively safe but now what we're seeing and this is really rare very very recent

is we're actually seeing a desire by the iraq e government to sort of absorb that group the m.e. k. and their their military wing back into society society but there's a lot of people who are fighting against that issue and i think frankly there's a lot of americans left and right who are absolutely supporting this concept of them continuing to fight against islamic state meaning the iranians and i think that's where the big push has come. well we also have to take into consideration here no matter what your opinion is on the m e k right is that technically it's still on this list of the state department's list of terrorist organizations and so technically all of these officials are former lawmakers that are going to events that are being paid by or perhaps helping pay them a cave that's technically material support of terrorism which you know there are people in this country that have been try they have been locked up for posting a video on you tube but they in no way are liable well that's actually the

fascinating question i mean we have to go back and take a look at it those who supported the taliban think of john walker lindh as a perfect example of that as somebody who essentially supported them in some sort of very nebulous fashion we've seen it in the past where there have been corporations who've been involved trying to support the taliban only in the sense that they could somehow find a way to make money on it for whatever reason that was fine too and so what we're seeing now is that scene shift and you're seeing those politically speaking who are so who are trying to find a way to support them because again if they're killing people that we like it's not terrorism by the way we should add that the brits and even the e.u. have basically will be moved away from the terrorism name because again they like having these guys i mean if somebody else can do the dirty work and you could make an absolute denial as we have seen from the likes of our secretary of state who said we are absolutely not involved in the assassination of these five scientists

and we have absolutely said it definitively isn't it nice to have an organization i'm not suggesting this is the organization but it's nice to have an organization that can do something so you can say it wasn't me it must have been somebody else you know what i mean yeah i mean if it's true to that raises a lot of questions about. israel and that means that they are than funding terrorism and there are still our greatest ally and you know it's definitely a very complicated web here than for a lot of hypocrisy as you pointed out but i want to talk about something that actually wrote about this today which is looking at a lot of pundits a lot of people that really are beating the war drums i guess you could say the loudest for an attack on iran many of them are claiming that we may as well do it because it'll be a piece of cake and yet at the same time that these are people that were wrong about iraq and that is also the exact opposite of what our military officials are technically saying so you know why would you listen to the military if they say

that something is not going to be a piece of cake militarily not to mention they shouldn't do it. because the right you're absolutely right on both sides if first of all let's take a look at iran to get you and i have talked about this but i think it's important to reemphasize that iran is three times the size of iraq seventy five million people three times depopulation of iraq but it's not just in terms of size their influence is the most dominating in the entire region certainly the most powerful country in the region but beyond that they have reach into europe they have a massive reach into syria massive reach into lebanon with hezbollah they have reach into the west bank into gaza with hamas and elsewhere so their fingers are in very many pies and we should add one additional element here the straits of hormuz twenty percent of the world's oil comes through the straits and they essentially have the ability to shut the straits down if they do that what that will do to the

world's oil production and prices and instability could be dramatic americans might say well we don't use any of their oil it doesn't matter it's a worldwide market you take twenty percent out of anything from any place it to the effect will be massive whether or not you're a cook iowa san diego california. or in london or madrid jack quickly before we go i just want to get your take on what you think is happening with syria right the violence continues its horrible people are continue to be killed and we have some senators today that are calling out for a resolution because they want the u.s. to give material aid to the syrian opposition do you think about it's a good idea though i think this is going to get very very difficult when we don't know exactly what it is we're stepping into again i mean this reminds me specifically about what was going on with the libyans where all of a sudden you see a nato operation with the support of various organizations with the u.n. security council making the decision not not to to go up passed

a resolution by the way because of the russians and chinese this makes things even more difficult but again what we're seeing is seen as the syrian government company coming in and destroying people by their thousands at this point and expanding their operations there's a lot of people who are rattling sabers and it's an election year so people will always stand around and pound their chest and talk about how tough they are of always afraid of that i jackal thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you very much. i coming up after the break like santorum apparently things that women can't handle certain assignments in the military on the planet and i still time and your visit the issues surrounding the black bloc in oakland california we're back we'll speak with susie cagle about their role and opened oppenheimer.

top stories and all see as played within the ranks of syria's opposition fighters at the time as they claimed they were behind twin blasts in the country's second city of aleppo which killed at least such a people but another spokesman denied responsibility just a knowledge late. degree coverage unanimously approves a draft bill almost every time out as demanded by brussels in return for a close one hundred thirty billion euro aid package with a final vote coming shortly that's despite own goalie violence as police clashed with protesters here is said the impact of hostile colleagues on drugs and living standards. and observing political trying to russia's public figures come together to show a presidential vote whiles try to do not to take sides. those are the headlines

right now let's go back to the second part of the i don't know and see will the mainstream media has decided to miss. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and once again because the feedback rock star rick santorum die before we go into why he's tonight's winner let me just give you a little bit of back story here just yesterday we told you that a proposed rule change from the pentagon would open the doors for women in uniform to get promotions officially be assigned to battalions women have increasingly been an increasingly important role in the military and we declared it a true glimmer of hope at the pentagon is now moving towards equality for women who want more opportunities in armed forces the fifteen years ago conservatives were vehemently against the idea women in combat roles with shocker new gingrich leading the charge this is what he said about the idea of why.