to use carrier pigeons to transport messages regarding anything from seeking supplies to asking for shelter the pigeons are the only way to get messages through enemy lines one of the pit messages found on a pigeon reads from the activists in old homes to those in baba amar please tell us what you need in terms of supplies medicine and food god willing we will deliver them to you the fact that these pigeons are somehow making it safely back and forth through such violent skies really begs the question at the robotic pigeons of the planet xenu come to syria. coming up after the break it's an all out battle for marriage equality across the nation will america ever be forced to embrace the concept or will conservatives successfully deny thousands of americans their civil rights.

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i am. a good run says it's been considering causing all sales to six e.u. countries that wouldn't do so at the moment because of the cold winter in europe this comes as the israeli pm accuses the islamic state of being behind bomb attacks in india georgia and thailand and others in a store he said is the public sector russia. russia says external players are encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the syrian government and therefore bad laundress possibility for their own growing violence and while president assad has announced a referendum on. friday's marking one day if there's a pretty democracy out prizing in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh clampdown with police he's in tactics and weapons from the u.k.

. as the headlines time not go back to washington for part of the big picture. it's technology innovation all the list of elements still around russia we've dumped a few jerks. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour so far this week washington state has legalized gay marriage in new hampshire has ramped up its efforts to repeal it so what's the status of the fight for marriage equality in america today also conservatives want to turn your children into plights pint sized conspiracy theorists is their latest attack on public education and what's the motivation behind it and coming up on tonight's daily take how does

a surprising change at fox news foreshadow greater changes within the republican party. in the best of the rest of the news the legalization of gay marriage is a debate that is gripping the nation right now from coast to coast states like washington have recently legalized it and others like new jersey are currently considering it some states are fighting hard to ban gay marriage permanently hampshire is considering a repeal of its very own same sex marriage law which has the backing of some of the top leaders in the republican controlled legislature in that state conservatives argue that it's time to get back to the true meaning of marriage maybe they mean the biblical meaning in which people are free to marry their sisters or their maids or have a harem of concubines similarly voters in minnesota will head to the polls in november to vote on

a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in that state and groups like nom are spending massive amounts of money in that state to ensure that the amendment passes because there's something else going on here besides the typical bigotry and aversion equal rights for more americans joining me now on this issue is marty rouse national field director for the human rights for the human rights campaign marty welcome great to be. to have you with us is this it seems to me i mean watching this for years the culture wars you know if it's not it was not gays it's god it's not god it's guns you know i agree we and i'm wondering if this thing in minnesota is just an effort to get the to get the fundies out of the fundamentalist church and into the polls on tuesday or you know come november well i think that used to be the case i think that used to be the case that if you have marriage equality on the ballot it brings out the opponents and right wings and conservatives but i think what we've seen over time especially the last few years as more and more americans support marriage equality i think that we're seeing it's

actually a base out base turner for democrats and progressives to come out as more fair minded people say you know what i support equal rights i support gays and lesbians getting married and so it's not really clear to me that this is going to help right wingers would turn out it's really going to be a wash it's going to come down to people when they go into that voting booth they're going to look hard into their hearts and going to say you know what do i support loving gay and lesbian couples getting married or do i not and more and more polls show that more people support marriage equality than a are against it absolutely and. that's the minnesota one you know getting it on the ballot in new hampshire you've got the legislature talking about doing this the state's been taken over by wrecked right wing wacko doodles. what are the i guess the odds are pretty high that they'll probably push this thing through what are the odds that that's going to hurt the republican party in that state come november all . newsy or do you disagree with my reading of this and you know i think you're

absolutely right the bottom line is we're going to see something really important happen in the in november we don't know what it's going to be the voters are ultimately going to decide you're right these legislators who really don't represent new hampshire voters overall they are hell bent actually on taking away the marriage rights that gay and lesbian couples have in new hampshire right now we have seen in poll after poll over sixty percent of new hampshire voters do not want to take away marriage rights in new hampshire so while the legislature might in fact repeal marriage in the next week or two or next couple of weeks the voters will actually have the final say because they'll get to reelect or not reelect those legislators who voted for or against repeal and then you'll just have a democratic legislature that will come in and say ok we're going to put it back and put well it's interesting that you say that i would not say that it's a democrat versus republican issue one third of the supporters of keeping the marriage law intact in new hampshire one third of them are republicans so this is not clearly a democrat versus republican issue

a lot of republican support marriage equality in new hampshire and across the country there was a brilliant viral video of the republican state legislator in washington state last week talking about you know the importance of loving relations between relationships being. sanctified being held up as opposed to you know and. looking down the road say five years and. i would guess maybe. it's my guess is that will be like him it will just be a national thing what are your thoughts well it really depends on a lot of politics really makes a difference. in our country right so we have state after state has to have these conversations the decision of these legislative elections and the courts make a huge difference state courts federal courts as well i would say that it's a really important for everybody everybody watching the news everybody paying attention to what's happening in the real world to understand that this is impacting real people's lives this is not a tax going up or down this is not about what's happening somewhere else is

happening in your family in your family you have a gay person you have someone who's lesbian in your life either directly in your family or immediate family or you work next to that person or you pray with that person in your in your house of worship and so what we're seeing is in state after state people are realizing you know what i have gay people in my life and you know what i might not be comfortable with the term marriage but you know what they're just like i am and i support them they're equal to me and you know what i now have to make the connection between that support that i have for that person a family member and paying attention to the legislators that actually make the difference and will in the grant rights or take away rights and hopefully more people will be paying attention mark thanks so much for being here with us tonight my pleasure thank you michel as an extraordinary energy around the nation right now when it comes to giving gays and lesbians the equal rights they deserve as americans let's keep it up.

i. lawmakers on capitol hill received eight hundred thousand reasons to ditch plans to bring back the keystone x.l. pipeline on tuesday as the republican controlled house of representatives gets ready to vote in a sham of a transportation funding bill that includes immediate approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline more than eight hundred thousand messages were handle livered to the u.s. senate from people all across america. calling on their senators to oppose the house republicans attempts to resurrect the keystone pipeline this was the result of twenty four hours of online activism spearheaded by the website three fifty dot org in an effort to get a half million people to oppose the pipeline in a single day that goal was shattered proving the environmental movement is not only alive and well in america but can claim a few victories against big oil as well but as we know big oil doesn't take no for

an answer and now teaming up with the right wing think tank the heartland institute big oil is trying to make sure they win every single environmental battle long into the future exactly or they're planning to do this by brainwashing american students for more on the story i'm joined by amanda beetle reporter at think progress dot org think we're going to hear from the center for american progress is blog great to have you with us again amanda what have you folks kept discovered about the heartland institute in this plan you broke the story well there have been these documents have come out and they've already said that we don't we don't know where they came from and at least at least one has been fake and a few may have been altered but these have been we have confirmed some of the information that is in them and the biggest part that we've confirmed in this is that the heartland institute has a plan and they are actively trying to curb gate an education curriculum that would be anti climate change to teach students for schools you

know. the heartland is to just to clarify this is a right wing think tank in the pacific northwest as i recall and it's funded by the koch brothers and others i think koch brothers are some of the founder funder support and other and the other usual suspects i suppose and and so you said it's an anti climate what what's the essence of this curriculum going to be essentially the goal of the curriculum would be that a senior fellow at the heart of the heartland institute to communicate i think progress told us that their plan is to but they don't think thats. science is being taught in the right way that climate science isn't actually using what they think the science should be so instead their goal is to turn it around that now they want to say that oh well there's no proof that man is harming climate in any way and basically in your way you would be great in that it is a debate it hasn't been settled yet so they're trying to indoctrinate students in

some ways this well not in some way i mean this is like you know there's a debate about whether. you know men and women should have equal rights or the you know the races should have equal rights or there's a debate about whether we should have slavery anymore i mean you know it's like there are some things isn't isn't climate science science in every developed country in the world except the united states you would think we could catch up with the rest of the world but but but we allow big oil to buy our politicians to you know the supreme court it's just absolutely bizarre why why or why are they trying to do this i mean given the probabilities climate change seems you moving so rapidly it's becoming so obvious. and we're talking about you know ten year olds so they're looking out at ten twenty thirty year horizons here in terms of you know people turning to voters want to. don't they don't they think that the jig is going

to be up in a couple of years or are the they really seriously planning for the long it's it looks like they are planning for the long haul if you're looking at something saying that they're saying now they want to implement curriculum to start teaching students so that they can start changing their minds already in you would think that it would kind of start to show up that we're already seeing that in basic in some part of the u.s. that starting in the year without winter and whereas europe absolutely frozen at the moment. you would think that things will start adding up but they must not of. you must not have. any other. well any any specific we have any specifics on whether they're planning on taking this thing on taking this thing out into public schools or is this could be a curriculum that's available to private schools to you know we don't know from the documents that we've seen because they get it we're not really sure what happened documents were some of some of them they've already said that at least one's been confirmed fake but this information about the school curriculum has been confirmed

but i'm not sure what schools are planning on taking it to a possible or probable the boy outing this effort that you put into. there you haven't gotten any feedback from there's you know nobody's saying no we're not going to do that but they confirmed or denied it and it's the heartland institute senior fellow the heartland institute did confirm that they are working on the curriculum and defended it by saying that again that they don't think science is being taught in the right way so let's teach adults are teaching their way ok amanda thanks so much for being with us and if you hear the great work that you are doing over there for others thank you this is exactly the sort of stuff that former supreme court justice lewis powell called for in his infamous one nine hundred seventy one memo to the chamber of commerce when he explicitly in that memo suggested rewriting our school textbooks to advance more business friendly attitudes to billionaires are continuing their campaign in good old fashion.

coming up in tonight's daily take hard core fox news viewers may have noticed a change over the last few months what does this change signify about the republican party as a whole. resistance is not of politics but a culture of. this couldn't. on its own.

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just. the good the bad and the very very kimmel poll a just silly ugly the good texas county court every law judge bill harris on monday judge perez issued a temporary restraining order against trans canada the company responsible for the keystone x.l. pipeline from doing construction work on a residential farm in paris texas trans canada has already used eminent domain to seize eighty nine properties in taxes for the keystone project trans canada went after julia crawford's family farm in paris that she has for the temporary restraining order stating that the pipeline is not a. jack that qualifies under texas is eminent domain was it will now be hearing next week on whether or not trans canada can go forward with their eminent domain claim on crawford's farms legislators in washington are puppets for corporate power in the pipeline project and i see the judge harris as

a backbone decided to stand up to trans canada the bat. out dr keith ablow blow a so-called expert psychiatry's for fox so-called news was interviewed on tuesday as a part of the network's war against media matters founder david brock when asked to diagnose rock a blow stated who's a very dangerous broom because having followers of war this is an accident a lot of widgets about violence destruction when he feels destroyed himself a blow continued by saying. this is an adopted boy who needs to plumb the depths of his psyche was adopted many adopted children are tremendously well adjusted but for some reason this young man this man feels as though he's unloved and unlovable shunted to the side and that's the antidote he feels unlimited power guess what it never ever works. well in the fact that no actual respectable doctor would diagnose a patient's sight unseen ablow

a basically said the rock was dangerous because he was adopted as a child. is incredible generalisations about adoption are offensive to anyone who's been adopted this type of quackery has no place media and the very very ugly rick santorum. rick santorum likes to portray himself as an average joe who cares about the nation's poor unfortunately is charitable work says otherwise a decade ago he formed the operation good neighbor charity with a mission statement to help homeless families low income families and troubled children in pennsylvania however according to the washington post the majority of charitable funds raised went to run the church itself as well as were given the santorum political insider front for it folded in two thousand and seven the charity raised around two point five eight million dollars with only thirty nine percent of the money actually going to help the citizens of pennsylvania normally a charity would donate seventy five to eighty percent of its total funds to its

designated was at least santorum continues to be proud of the work or lack there of the operation good neighbor did it appears he was actually more interested in creating a scheme to pad the wallets of his political friends and actually help the people of his home state and that he's very very. so how do we know when today's republican party has jumped the shark. when fox so-called news is trying to pull the party to the left over the last few months diehard fox viewers have noticed a change of tone coming from the republican party's mouthpiece it might have something to do with fox chairman roger ailes saying back last fall on the heels of the tea party debt limit debacle that the network was in store for

a course correction ailes saw the writing on the wall which was that the tea party was going to drag republicans into the political wilderness if they kept dictating the agenda so it was time for fox so-called news to sever ties and hope that the more moderate voices in the tea party would do the same course to the casual viewer this lurch to the not so far right is barely noticeable after all with fox and friends of riley hannity still throwing bombs of the president every day metaphorically it seems like things haven't changed a bit but to the tea party it's like a dog whistle that only they can hear or see they notice the difference is a blogger on the prominent tea party website red state dot com put it something's happening at fox news more often these days i hear the language of the left and hearing their news programs conservative points of view are becoming more rare on fox and or are treated with scorn i have not made a lot of these events document these claims but as someone who is sensitive not

only what to what is said but how it is said i know fox news is changing and as a political as a politico reporter reported yesterday across the conservative political action conference this year back there were similar grumbles among conservative activists that the cable channel was no longer speaking for them as it once did with the network distancing itself from the tea party cheerleading that characterize the first two years of president barack obama's presidency lately fox has increasingly promoted straight news talent in the press and conducted some of the toughest interviews and debates of the republican primary season. so this apparently is actually happening bach so-called news is desperately trying to inject some moderation into the republican party maybe that's because they know history especially the history of the republican party is a history of that over the last hundred years has seen radical forces rise up within it hijack the party run it into the ground until more moderate voices

finally stand up and take back their party this is happened over and over and over again we talked about this earlier in the week this is the cycle of republican waves of radicalism from teddy roosevelt in one thousand nine hundred what he was quite progressive actually the bottom of right wing radical reason and then warren harding was elected in one nine hundred twenty and saying that he was going to put more business in in government and less government and business and it was a slogan he dropped the top income tax rate from seventy three percent on a twenty five percent deregulated the markets which led right to the crash of the one nine hundred thirty s. and franklin roosevelt and the democrats actually got on or the republicans many republicans actually got on board with the new deal which is led to the right wing reactionary movement within the in the republican party the do nothing congress of one nine hundred forty six the radical republicans they passed taft hartly blow up the unions they blocked harry truman's attempt to have universal health care which

you know that in two years just two years this was forty six the election of forty six election forty eight the republicans were kicked out of the house of representatives and they didn't come back until one thousand nine hundred six forty six years in the wilderness so this led to then moderate republicans like eisenhower and of course then the for crazies said we can't have this and so they came back with barry goldwater the right wing radicals saying no no we're not going to we're not going to go with that moderate eisenhower stuff and so you had goldwater goldwater blew up the election blew up the party brought back the moderates nixon and ford and that. brought out the craziest reagan and with you know which was polly george george h.w. bush which was followed by a right wing crazy george w. bush and you'd think the party would be going into a moderate phase but it got dragged out by the tea party this weird thing that only lasted a couple of years from the radical going to the moderate to coming back to being

the radicals and frankly it's because you know all this money can't was thrown into it by by the billionaires and the and the tea party so we'll see how this this whole tea party thing you know works out but it looked to me like it's going to get a little more moderate and so this is going to be these struggle in my opinion. for the republicans over the course of this year how do they root out the radical elements in their party the tea party before those radical elements crashed the economy again like they did in one nine hundred twenty nine or run congress so poorly that they're banished from the majority in the house of representatives for forty six years like happened in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight or pick a radical as a presidential candidate like they did in sixty four were very golfball water and get absolutely crazy. so you know roger ailes the chairman over at fox so called

news and a lot of the other republicans within that group they have a lot of sway in the republican party you could say that they've become the tail that is wagging the dog of the republican party so they may be able to succeed in promoting moderates if that's really what they're up to is let's go back to some moderate to another is when elections. then again and ben mitt romney might be a part of that for that for that matter you know although he's having a tough time getting through the primary here but then again i'm not convinced that fox can silence the radicals within their own corporation. let alone the whole of the republican party is what the wait and see but in the meantime while the republicans are doing some soul searching on this issue. frankly i think it's time for democrats to be focusing on how progressive they were during the f.d.r. period. and during the presidency of lyndon johnson which was in here someplace

arguably and here when we had we actually had two very progressive presidents because as much as the cycles of the republican party showed crashing and burning when it gets super conservative those same cycles show that the democratic party is at its very best it's at its most successful when it's it most progressive people love the democrats when f.d.r. passed social security and right to unionize laws have built a modern middle class they freel to four times or reelected him three times elected four times they so love the democrats when l.b.j. cut poverty in half in this country in less than a generation with the great society they rethink from civil rights to medicare and medicaid so while the billionaires are busy trashing the republican party. we are so overdue for a return of franklin delano roosevelt's democratic party that it is just it's not even describable we really need to bring back progressives in the democratic party

so here we've got this whole republican cycle and this whole republican discussion about you know the republicans going to become more moderate and and it's time frankly as the republicans are cycling moderate it's time for the democratic party to become more progressive. i think that the bill clinton presidency is not is not so long for the way that f.d.r. is was because he wasn't that progressive people as a moderate democrat and so for republicans if they want to hold power they need to have moderates democrats if they want to take power if they want to get elected they want to get things done if they want to accomplish things and if they want to have the long term love of the people. then do things like creating social security or creating medicare do things or defending them standing up for them or let's build out something you know let's let's go to medicare party and bring everybody into the party or let's go to the.