now the investigation revealed and why p.t. has been keeping tabs on muslim students not only in the city of new york but all across the state into the entire northeast this raise concerns yet again about the n.y.p.d. the intelligence gathering but at least one person found the investigation caused to be weary not of the n.y.p.d. but of the a p itself michael walsh is the former editor in chief of big journalism who now writes a twice weekly opinion column for the new york post and this week he decided to tackle what he calls the journalistic jihad the a.p. is waging against the n.y.p.d. and yes he actually used those words now the investigation exposes that despite new york city mayor bloomberg to surance as the n.y.p.d. only follows legitimate leads about suspected criminal activity and my p.d. is surveilling muslim students with no mention of wrongdoing whatsoever but watch things and that's totally normal he says quote there is always a gap between what public officials say to the gotcha media and what they actually must do especially when it comes to terrorism if officials could candidly talk about the daily reports they get about possible lethal jihad this activity the

country would be in a permanent state of panic now what if they actually came out and said we are monitoring muslim students who have done nothing wrong because they are muslim and therefore could possibly be terrorists i mean can you imagine the sheer and utter chaos that would ensue yes better to keep that one secret otherwise the entire country just might go to terror induced panic was also claims of the targeting of muslims for no reason is a good thing plain and simple he says that on nine eleven america was shot in the back in one thousand devout praying muslims some of whom had infiltrated our nation posing as students what the politically correct a.p. apparently sees as an oppressed minority is correctly viewed by the n.y.p.d. as a possible suspect pool for the next attempted terrorist attack i don't forget and wipe media was busted for showing it islamophobia training video called third jihad nearly fifteen hundred times now the message of that video the muslims are here to the ceiba us into believing if they are moderate while they are truly here to bring down all of western society. so let's just say that i'm

a little more than disturbed and they're targeting muslims with no record of wrongdoing in their surveillance wash then goes on to explain that sacrifices must be mate says all kind of maybe operationally damaged but the failed times square bombing serves as a post reminder that eternal vigilance in the war against radical islam is a price that even pacifist new yorkers must pay for the right not to get blown up at macy's so we have to be willing to accept the n.y.p.d. infringing on the civil liberties of muslims of the nothing wrong why well because that's what's going to keep me from being blown up when i want to pick up a new sweater it's funny though when it comes to sacrifices last march walsh was singing a little bit of a different tune in a column titled the worst homeland security met as he argued the vs a full body scanners go against his fourth amendment rights and wrote the fourth amendment state explicitly the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated hard to square that with the mission of the homeland security department and its intrusive t.s.a.

which treat every american equally as a potential criminal and terrorist but why didn't the terrorist board planes does not make all airline travelers part of this suspect pool so maybe walsh you would be more comfortable if the scanners are only used against muslims so for championing his own civil liberties while asking others to give up their michael walsh is tonight's tool time winner. hi guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening producer jenny churchill and comedian all right guys joining me ok so there's a new phobia in town it's called nova phobia take a look. you're moving into a land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas we're not accessing this.

you have no look. and. so basically a study has found that people that have a little bit of withdrawal symptoms i guess you could say from not having their cell phone around them it's going up i think the survey it was in the u.k. just four years ago fifty three percent of people suffered now. sixty six percent of people suffer and i guess seventy percent of female spawn and i think i have no what i witnessed you freaking out looking for your phone today actually tried to play a trick on me stole my phone it to see if i did you know. it was my iphone and. where. are you going to talk to security downstairs if i left it somewhere like an elevator. you know like. it's like i don't know i phones are like your best defense against humans. i mean like you i don't want to conversation crazy

people on the train is like. i don't have to you know. it's true i have an issue with this entire thing because what they asked to determine if someone had know my phobia was do you fear losing your phone. that qualifies you then for a phobia that you fear losing your that have all of your contacts you are a lot of money and it was when you were there was fear all you like having nightmares about it. never going to analyze you doing you know what is fear i guess you know a philosophical still important questions once again. ok this story is just and i love these levees hypocrite stories so i think everyone is going to remember this sheriff sheriff paul babeu who is in john mccain's ad about building the dang fence take a look. drug and human smuggling home invasions murders. of

all the illegals in america more than half come through arizona and we get the right plan plans perfect you bring troops state county and local law enforcement together and complete the dang thing it will work this time senator if you want to pass. are it's a bad those currently running for congress and now there are accusations so he's gay which i don't think he hides but there are accusations basically for a mexican immigrant who is undocumented he said that he dated a share for years and was threatened with deportation if he ever told anyone about the romance and there are even some racy photos that he put out there do we have the pictures of we may not have the baby that's the root of his friends there they are there they are looking for coffee to feel and one of. them to. you maybe that's the root of his racism no it's like a mexican for you and. i don't like. to be like i think you are you saying that like most people who are homophobes then turn out to

be gay i thought that's where you were going with that not really sure but like i have a bad relationship could make you hate it was not a blanket he just he was just heartbroken like maybe he's the store and you know he's mexican his folderol reasons you know well you know the mexicans because they're jealous and controlling and. i think they need to make a new where he's just walking saying build the fence that relates around his bedroom door for me. part let's move on. linsanity which we've spoken about here for the show. because you're going. ok so e.s.p.n. and basically what happened is they had a headline asking if there is a chink in the armor and one of their anchors asked the question too so the anchors been suspended for thirty days the headline writers have been fired and i mean it really at the end of the day here is jeremy lin's response he appreciated their

apology he doesn't think it's that big a deal. e.s.p.n. is apologizing. you know there's no. i don't think. you know on purpose or whatever but you know at same time they've apologized so for mine i don't care anymore so you have to learn to forgive in you think that was intentional or hopefully not. right so it may have been a poor choice of words but to me it didn't really seem like it was something that was you know i didn't seem like you know they were being obviously races that could be just like a cliche terms like is there a chink in the armor when you're talking about i mean i do think that people are overreacting but if the legitimacy didn't know that was going to be a problem like this was like his picasso piece chicken armor this is it and there's no way they don't teach you know racial slurs in school so how would you how would you really know a little bit you know what if he was just blissfully ignorant we don't know if we

really don't know but i have to say you know i think it was only a matter of time until someone said something that was lin sensitive you know given all the time that i've been going around waiting all day to say that all that and so much as i noted on his basketball i do find it kind of shocking how well he drives to the basket. because no matter how are you. playing cards all right and that. thank you for joining me both you guys that is it for a diet so thank you for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow we're going to have anthony red the director of economic research for the reason foundation joining us for happy hour any time so forget to become a fan of you want to go on facebook also follow us on twitter if there is anything you missed on tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch the. flash here on the show you'll find the interviews so as the show in its entirety coming up next.

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oh i'm going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. over citizens united americans elect is the new corporate ruse in town what is it and how can we save our democracy from more corporate influence also workers a team mobile usa are threatened and intimidated if they bring up talk of forming a union organiser be the case for the parent company as union members on the board

of directors and wealthy elite like that romney live off dividends from investments why can't the rest of us do the very same thing. you need to know this because of a setback for democracy last week on friday unlike the justice of the u.s. supreme court decided that the citizens of montana have to give up their elections to deep pocketed corporations choosing the side of three montana corporations the high court suspended a recent montana supreme court decision that up held the one hundred year old montana corrupt practices act which banned corporate spending in state elections now corporations have free rein to spend unlimited amounts of money in montana elections just like they can in the rest of america is a small sill sliver of a silver lining here though since the high court merely suspended the ruling and has not yet overturned it the door is open for

a possible second hearing on citizens united this year or next and now that we know just how damaging that citizens united ruling is to our democracy all the super pacs hanging around maybe the court will reconsider. but i'm not holding my breath not until the makeup of the supreme court changes at the very least in the meantime a growing number of americans think the solution to our post citizens united broken political system is a new political party a third party from the tea party to occupy wall street the failures of the two party system in america is a favorite talking point and it's a talking point that's made its way on to the page of the new york times on sunday in a in the form of an op ed by multimillionaire and corporate shill thomas friedman friedman wrote eventually the circular circular firing squad that is the republican primary will be over and the last man standing will be the party's nominee for president if that candidate is rick santorum i think there's a good chance a third party will try to fill the space between the really severely conservative santorum or even mitt romney and the left of center barack obama it would be

fitting at their party candidate friedman things would be fitting is this guy david walker walker is not a moderate he like the rest of the republican party is a deficit hawk who's been working on behalf of right wing think tank the peter g. peterson foundation to end social security and medicare as we know that he's even further to the right than mitt romney when it comes to economic issues he'd be a corporate third party candidate not a rational middle of the road cutting guy which brings us to the second piece of this third party puzzle the shadowy organization known as americans elect basically it's an online organization that's going to nominate and run a third party candidate for president this election how it works is you go online to become a member and then later this spring the site will hold an on line election in which members will pick the third party that americans elect puts forward as their candidate americans elect already has a spot on the ballot in fourteen states including california and with some twenty

two million dollars raised already a likely be a all fifty state ballots by the time of the election so whoever is picked by american electorate hold a lot of sway in the upcoming election and here's the best part the american like committee. will have the final say in who gets to be the candidate regardless of who you if you're a member voted for in other words the vote is meaningless window dressing. and considering that americans elect is getting a considerable amount of its money and support from wall street hedge fund managers and other millionaires and billionaires it's safe to expect a millionaire or billionaire sympathizer to come out on top someone like new york mayor michael bloomberg who's actually now being touted on their website or someone like thomas friedman's main man david walker who is also featured on the american select web site for americans trying to save our democracy by getting corporate influence out of it corporate ruses like americans like to make it all the more difficult so what can be done catherine crier joins me now and in fact i the

bio at the back your book is so much better than what i have on the prompter i just have to share this hour with our viewers catherine crier the youngest elected state judge in texas history has covered national international affairs for c.n.n. a.b.c. news fox news in court t.v. an emmy and dupont columbia award winning journalist she's also the new york times bestselling author of a deadly game and the case against lawyers and you have written an absolutely brilliant book here in a patriot acts with americans must do save the republic that what i really like about this is that it doesn't come across as a. a biased you know polemic they have it's it's just solid and rational so what's your take on this americans elect well i am with you in that i find it a little scary and as you were reading it you're sort of going through that information it does remind me a bit however of the old backroom politics and when they start talking that that we may end up with a brokered convention because of the republican chaos that what was that in the in

the old days that was the smoke filled room and yes we're going to get people to vote on the internet now but it's the smoke filled room that will pick the americans elect candidates right and and so many times in the past we've seen certainly that a certain group put forward a democrat or republican out of that back room in a convention to go forward and run for election so in a sense it may not. be so different which can be good or bad because right now what we're seeing though is is such a domination in my opinion of both parties by corporate money or by big influence that the american voters don't have much of a say in those primaries much much less than the american electorate the merits of this in your book in fact it's one of the repeated themes through your eyes the story of jamie diamond for example with robert rubin rather excuse me that when you get in with we complain that is sort of the change that took place in the reagan

administration i presided over one of the s. and l. cases i mean i was still on the bench so i went through that chaos and you saw what happened but democrats forget that robert ruben and summers those guys turned their back on regulating derivatives they the wall street guys were sort of running that show we do know despite republican protestations that an awful lot of wall street guys have been running the economic advisory camp for president obama for both and we yet when we know that a lot of reform has not taken place or been watered down like the volcker rule is as one why because even the democrats are in fact catering quite a bit to wall street you know i have a former member of congress who i knew some years ago. tell me that he had a lobbyist walk into his office as a couple years ago and say you know i've got a half million dollars i can spend in your district i can use it to build you up or

destroy you which would you prefer jack a vermont. my lord the fact that i'd be how to use book but here is you know these republican godzilla who's come come out and he's opened his coat and shown everyone he said i wanted to do was walk in and go when you're tired of working here i got six seven figures for you and all of a sudden the republican staffers were letting him write the bill. you know me at least lead the way well that's going on on both sides at the end and it was not a good thing it's not a healthy thing you mention that you were on the bench during the crisis that would've been eighty six as a room and what i find fascinating is bill seed. from the grand rapids was born in grand rapids you know we did a fair amount of bill sweetman on my radio show back five six years ago when he was speaking out on this and you know he ran the resolution trust corporation put the thing back together but but the reagan astray ssion prosecuted sixteen hundred people sent

a thousand people to jail oh absolute the perp walks that we had and were screaming i mean you've heard just what the last forty eight hours is collar for these guys belong in jail right and if you people republicans who don't want regulations here's how you cut back on regulations you actually prosecute you enforce you get really serious with these guys when the drug companies messes up you don't find them a million dollars after they've made four million dollars on a drug you know you'd be charged or or you you know you really go after these guys and guess what you can cut back on regulations same thing in the financial industry you put some of these guys in the pen for twenty five to life guess what they'll start taking seriously the rule of law and they're and they're very much not what is the type of the type of capitalism we're seeing in america today this is something that's so interesting to me and i had to go back literally to adam smith because if you go back to founding principles guess what he was writing capitalism

to object to the marriage of big government and big business mercantile ism well in england it is theory of moral sciences even more to the point absolutely and he says in here that the only way to have broad based economic opportunity not outcome is you cannot allow the concentration of wealth and power at the top that that group. are unaccountable sovereigns as as detrimental to economic liberty and opportunity as a tyrannical government and the people's government must be the counterbalance because individuals can never counter the power of that elite one percent and he also talks about things like workers' rights a social safety net that capitalism inherently creates dramatic imbalance and you've got to not make it equal but you've got to work on creating social stability with things like workers' rights and the social safety net to create the

environment in which capitalism can flourish and if people don't go back and do their homework and learn what capitalism really is versus the the very corporatist economy and global corporatist economy we have today then they're they're no way we're going to make the reforms that we need i think most people don't realize that the phrase the invisible and appears only once in and his nation talking about a dem or a stick well and he said it's really about a domestic economy you're local just like jefferson that a local democracy is really the best and a local environment that that sort of balance occurs all the time but once you've got sort of the wal marts of the world that can dictate the invisible hand becomes meaningless on a large scale or certainly a global scale in the in the middle we have left what is in your mind the most important point that you want to share with people and in this book that one of my favorite quotes is from john adams idiology is the science of idiots past and and

right now the parties are so wedded to idiology that actually there's no relationship to the founder conservatism or liberalism among the founding fathers complete opposite but you've got to understand that preserving the republic our constitutional republic comes before our idiology. and we are threatening to tear that apart and if we don't understand what is interesting what is mandatory to the preservation of this remarkable system then we're going to throw it all away. catherine for thank you for the great work they were doing and a brilliant book patriots great to have you with us don't get. don't get fooled by corporate funded third party candidates by the way our best hope for getting money out of politics and overturning citizens united will be through a constitutional member this is corporations are not people and money is not speech go to move to a mandatory join. coming up after the break t.

mobile in america vehemently opposes the idea of unionization of employees with their parent company in germany embraces unions with open arms where's the disconnect and will t. mobile workers in the us ever see and i'm working on. it we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old so if you tell the truth. i have a confession i am a total get a friend that i was grabbing hip hop music and. he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you see it's a place. 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.

the mobiles the fourth largest wireless company in the united states with over thirty eight thousand employees domestically thirty three million u.s. customers and every single team mobile employee in the u.s. is getting screwed and is the victim of a war against workers' rights for years and ploys of trying to unionize for better wages and benefits only to be shot down metaphorically to mobilize routinely distributed and anti-union and books for managers and conducted campaigns to stop unionization when workers tried to form a union management has consistently threatened to fire employees if they formed

a union and told them that they would be punished if they said it in a negative about the company even on personal social media sites like the. in short the environment within t. mobile in america is one of fear imitate intimidation and absolute disrespect which is ironic considering their website which says team mobile usa supports and will comply with such federal law in all respects and will not take any action against employees because they have to exercise their rights under the law nor will it tolerate retaliation against any employee for exercising rights under the law the actions of the us team mobile subsidiary are in stark contrast to the operations of its parent company in germany they should tell a cop so this week twelve telecom workers all members of a union with a german government official are visiting the us to meet with american t. mobile employees and observe the hostile environments that they face joining me now to discuss more about the hostile working conditions facing tea mobile's american

employees and the disconnect between u.s. management and those who talk to his clout klaus marital member of the social democratic party of germany and a member of the german parliament and george cole senior director of communications for the senior director of the communications workers of america union gentlemen thank you both for being so completely for being here with you being available to us why is there such a disconnect between the telecoms german operation and philosophy of business and that in the united states. mr burton if the this is true they can then so because this klystron is the to put them in the treatment of. this then this then the between true and the view is that. mr cole when you're an american here watching this. what are your thoughts.