market. why no what's really happening to the global economy with a much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. so why do you know country and occupying a country and disturbing their country creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and suffering a ron paul shows the ugly side of us wars a barrage a decade long war in afghanistan is taking its toll on a country and its people and the american soldiers sent overseas time and time again in the aftermath of a tragedy at the hands of a u.s. soldier many are wondering have we created more problems than we've helped us all. there's been some research the nikkei did about two point two million votes were

lost in two thousand and eight do voter registration problems and the us has ninety nine problems and a lot of lection system is what all show you how any factor in the voting process really is. and police officers might not be the only ones asking for a license and registration in the months to come several states want people to have photo identification cards in order to vote and it's intended to weed out fraud but will this really solve the problem or is it a way to unfairly police the system will debate. it's tuesday march thirteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. and you're watching our team. well the u.s. has apologized for the shooting rampage in afghanistan that killed sixteen people many of them women and children and a name thirty eight year old staff sergeant is now in custody at an undisclosed

location but the massacre has severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces and u.s. officials are debating pulling out of the country sooner and plan then here at home a new poll shows more americans growing frustrated but the way the war is going and want the troops to come back home sixty percent say the war was not worth fighting thirty percent believe the afghan public support u.s. the u.s. mission there fifty four percent say the u.s. should withdraw forces meanwhile president obama today said anyone involved will be held accountable here take a listen to his remarks today the united states takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own children who are murdered. her groping over the loss of innocent life the killing of innocent civilians is outrageous it is unacceptable it's not who we are as

a country and it does not represent our military. but despite the apologies in the wake of one tragedy an embarrassment after another many afghans are pushing for the else or of u.s. troops and with anti american rallies igniting and the country are you can reports the patients of the afghan people may well be writing out. sixteen innocent afghan villagers slaughtered in cold blood nine of them children u.s. officials are going out of their way to present the american surgeon who apparently committed the massacre is just one bad apple. this incident is charging and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the united states has for the people of afghanistan this is not who we are in no way does he represent. the ethics and morality of the

american servicemen and servicewomen and i think afghans understand that but afghans don't seem to be buying that at all. the rage and humiliation felt by afghan people appear to be way beyond what apologies can make up for they've heard them all before in the last few months all too often and each one very similar to the next just weeks ago the white house apologized for the burning of the copies of the koran by u.s. troops an incident that triggered a surge of violence this was a deeply unfortunate incident that does not reflect the great respect our military has for the religious practices of the afghan people and weeks before that in january apologies again over footage showing u.s. marines urinating on dead afghans but he's actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces who serve their nations on ripley contrary to what u.s. officials say some analysts believe that those incidents are symptomatic of how the military operation in afghanistan works it is increasing the case that this is

looking like. a brutal occupation which is killing a large number of afghans where afghans film cells humiliated insulted and incidents like this will be regarded as symbolic of exactly what is wrong with the america not pay for it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they don't think in afghanistan for another free how many more people will die how many more instances like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops out a month for these for these governments just opens of a name in countries where they have absolutely no rights when. he is apologise handed out by the administration don't seem in. to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people who want to go home ideal been eating a country and occupying a country and disturbing their country creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and suffering this it ever get to

a point where apologizing about the korean is rather minor to some of the other problems that we have created the taliban has vowed it will take revenge and analysts expect a fresh surge of violence children shot in the head women slaughtered it's incidents like the latest soldier's rampage in afghanistan that extremists of all kinds. new people to their ranks those new recruits go out to kill not even the most heartfelt apologies can change the minds of people on revenge it becomes a vicious circle that grieves even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to reporting from washington our king. meanwhile on the ground in afghanistan as an american sentiment is growing fierce this during an already rocky relationship between the u.s. and afghanistan so how will this latest tragedy shape u.s. foreign policy help answer this add much more i spoke to the iraq war veteran kevin

baker i asked him if a speedy departure is more likely now. i would use the word it would be a victory because the u.s. is incapable of winning in afghanistan this is news to the american people. that happened in this tragedy and i would like to say that the march organization our hearts go out to the families and i confess i think. this incident and the entire. nation. on. the pentagon the white house all known all have made claims that. this war is not going to be won and that we're going to be there in a lot of time and we know that if this government to respond advice is that it will stay there indefinitely. it's really in the hands of the american people now is on hold of every single american to the that these wars create an internal conflict in the military and then the struggle to individual soldiers trying to get out. not only in record suicide but record killing sprees like that just just happened

recently i mean the only way to make that happen to make an immediate withdrawal of afghanistan if their people get together and organize not the government you know not the reform but the man that was for a lot of afghanistan by u.s. and nato forces. have been to what extent do you think that something like this can help to shape the views of the u.s. military abroad. i mean this is really a tipping point for the u.s. and afghanistan as far as the u.s. . u.s. perspective is concerned this is not new to the people of afghanistan it's not new to people that have lived under a decade of brutal u.s. occupation this is status quo. where the usual murder air strikes per night raids all of this is due to the thing about. the us military i think is a very accurate one and they have the right to demand an immediate withdrawal just

because the people of the us that have been very much very very important that this is happened every day since the occupation of afghanistan is going on ten years ago and this is this is new to us it was not new afghanistan what is it that happens every day. so every single. bridge life of the person. who you. made it was today you know really stripping them of their right to exist on a daily basis on the people of afghanistan have endured this brutal occupation for ten years we can know as you said in the beginning just over the past month we've had scandal after scandal that emerged this is only what we know i mean it goes on every day with that we don't know from the marines urinating on the dead. but afghan men to be with nazi paraphernalia i think you can have sixteen mostly

children by the older two about a month ago were eight children were torn to pieces by an apache gunship the children were simply herding sheep going to try to happen every single day. the u.s. . is a tragedy for the afghan people and when something like this something of this magnitude gets out like somebody opening a fire and attacking opening fire on innocent civilians women and children mostly it raises questions about how something like this is able to happen and how somebody with the mental health capacity why this person wasn't diagnosed and i know that you were stationed at this base i mean what are your thoughts on that having been there yourself. yes i actually went through the medical discharge process myself for post-traumatic stress disorder so i'm very familiar with the way that it works especially at joint base with mccord i've had i think more people

that i know commit suicide than died in combat after something to seek help from the military with the military function in screen its personnel it's literally a check box process and it's designed to convince the american people that there's a safety stablished to catch people that are seeking help well internally within the military it's constantly discouraged you know just a quick example of how this process works you have to go see a psychologist and after this you know about a year of going to asking for help you have to battle through your squad here so soon your company mocking you calling you a coward a traitor institutionalized in the military not allow people to get help. and lastly kevin i mean in your opinion in the wake of all this what needs to be done can president obama today issued an apology is there any way to make any kind of reparations are where do we go from here. the only way to begin making reparations

for people that is an immediate withdrawal obama's apology will fall on deaf ears in afghanistan and rightly so that he can be an immediate withdraw the two billion dollars every single week destroying the lives of the afghan people need to be given back to them the destiny of their people back in their hands. immediate withdrawal and there should be compensation paid to help the afghan people to rebuild the country after we completely destroyed it. thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing in bringing your personal experience with the iraq war veteran. well the u.s. is oftentimes quick to cast down over the way elections play out in other countries last week's russian elections is just one example but in a few months americans had to the polls to decide of president obama will serve executive term and his art his marine corps and i reports there are several flaws within the u.s. voting system. one of these men could be president just eleven months from now as

president if i'm president this president i say you got is somebody who can actually get it done in washington as americans head to the polls in two thousand and twelve determined to take part in democracy millions of folks may end up rejected or thrown away calm election night two point two million votes were lost in two thousand and eight due to voter registration problems david bakker is the director of elections initiatives at the pew center on the states he says america's nineteenth century paper based a voter registration system has left the nation's registration rolls plagued by errors we found roughly twenty four million records that are no longer up to date mostly because people have moved in some cases because people have died we found fifty one million eligible voters who aren't on the rolls but one in four of the old citizens united states a new report on america's quote inaccurate costly and inefficient voting system also found nearly two million dead individuals listed as eligible u.s.

voters and nearly three million citizens registered in more than one state we're seeing voting problems during the two thousand and nine term a lections resulted in a record sixty thousand votes being tossed out not county officials say the misuse of new electronic optical scan machines was to blame yet again that because price would likely be the integrity of america's free and fair elections we should assume that every citizen that is eligible to vote can vote and if there is some problem on election day there should be some way that they can correct so if they're not told i don't see you in the book even though you are a citizen even though you are eighteen your vote isn't going to count concerning russia back in december u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said the same thing following russia's parliament reelection the russian people people like. everywhere deserve the right . to have their voices heard and their votes counted and come this november it all

starts with you american citizens will be counting on us leaders to stand there were you know r.t. new york. meanwhile several new voting laws recently enacted in states throughout the country sparking controversy here the fourteen states where new voting laws have been passed there they are from barring early voting to restricting where people can vote her acquiring voters to provide government issued photo id is some voters and civil rights activists are concerned that one of america's most fundamental rights is under attack now proponents of the new rules say it will prevent voter fraud but critics say it early and it's an excludes a very significant portion of american citizens these people being mostly minorities that tense a vote democrat so what is really behind these new laws and how they potentially affect the outcome of the election well here to debate the pros and cons we were

joined i was joined earlier by c. in mali he's the president of less government and from our los angeles studio investigative journalist brad friedman i started off by asking what's the problem with requiring people to show i.d. at the polls here is brad state. well the problem is that there are millions of americans who simply do not have them and it's not equally spread among all voters in fact minorities elderly student students and so forth are far more likely to not have the type of photo i.d. state issued photo id that's required by these new laws these new laws have been put in place by the way in order to keep people from voting keep illegal voters from casting their legal vote despite a dearth of problems with voter fraud at the polling place that's the only type of voter fraud that can be stopped by these polling place photo id restrictions so you're talking about keeping potentially tens if not hundreds of thousands of legal

voters who have been able to vote without a problem for decades from being able to cast their legal votes under these restrictive new laws passed by republicans paid what do you make of that argument that besame law excluded thousands of voters here in iraq all of the tens of thousands numbers completely made up what we've seen time and time and time again and the acorn scandal was just the tip of the iceberg that broke this down the proposition is become a nation of casting a provisional ballot the polling place where you don't have a photo id or you can't prove you live somewhere and then matching that up with the fraudulent registrations that acorn registered and other groups have registered in the tens and hundreds of thousands so that's the kind of voter fraud that actually transpires in large numbers and that's the kind of voter fraud that a photo id requirement. largely eliminates and that's what they've been fighting because as we know acorn was

a democrat operation registering people then helped it let me lead we elect democrats so that's the partisan battle we're fighting at this point. a response to that yeah there's nothing partisan about this other than we've got. publicans trying to keep voters from being able to cast their legal vote in the case of a corn we're talking about registration fraud that was carried out by a handful of acorn workers it was discovered by a hand that all holds and turned into officials. three restorations ever cast a vote you've got to keep that in mind there's a combination i just said every morning what i just seen you ignore. the illegal registrations do you any good in the finish what i was saying you're normal i'm sad your mind letting me i'm just going to jump the air and i let me finish what i was saying there is not evidence of a single fraudulent vote ever cast of the an improper registry of all an acorn

worker this is simply a canard where is it c. they were unable to keep as they say. they were a bank so they're not being prosecuted for that when we went down i do want to add there is no prosecution against any case of voter fraud for any fraudulent register wrong by any court and you're wrong. i do want to ask how dislodged can be considered discriminatory echoed cause apply to everybody across the board no matter who you are if you're a voter you are required to show this id so it doesn't discriminate great and. well great question just yesterday the department of justice objected to rejected a texas polling place photo i.d. restriction because it found that hispanic voters are anywhere from forty six percent to one hundred twenty six one hundred twenty percent more likely to be lacking the type of photo id that is required over non hispanic voters agree with

others here legally own carolina where black where black voters are twenty percent more likely to not have the type of photo id required then none african-american voters so we see this same pattern all over the country and of course republicans know this play that's why they're passing these laws and go ahead back perhaps in texas the spanish one hundred twenty to thirty six percent are likely not to have photo id because a great many of them are here illegally and shouldn't be voting anyway this these numbers are legal voters i finish these are legal voters seat no what they're what they're looking at is that if they're fudging the numbers they carry pick certain prison populations to look out for one number then they cherry pick another number to look at for different others they're looking at registered voters there are looking at the total population of the right and looking at likely voters which of the people would actually go as it is that race is even more actually if it was in races for boruc that are actually is it races for boris to require id for parker.

oh ok ok is it raises for prescription pharmacies ali i write that so you can see let me answer your question ok in texas we're not fudging any numbers because those are the numbers that were supplied by the state of texas to the department of justice they're going by their own numbers those are currently registered legally registered voters that we're talking about ok so what is your why that ok we're going to our board races for requiring photo id to purchase our pharmacies races for acquiring a photo id to fill a prescription but the reason is these are rigged are they racers points i've never said i've never said that any of this was race sure it is you're saying it's going to work because i'm going to do like i've been doing here is i not somebody else who has that come into contact with a system that has been denied their rights and i want to play this clip from you this is actually from a veteran he is from a tennessee he's trying to use his voter registration card and he has denied that

let's take a look at how rundown. this is was the right sort of nuisance for the goose the weirs. the fun of. growing of. its for unusual if it is one of the not only do. i have to do more now than i was here is that here we have a batter and he's being denied the right to values that he's been using that form of id for decades and here laws change you being upset he's easy to bring up so that he can go into a bar and bitch and moan that he can't get a beer without an id but that's the law he can go into a pharmacy and basically he can't get a prescription pill but that's the law we want to cut down on fraud roads have to fill ins we want to quote on fraudulent underage drinking and we want to cut down on fraudulent voting and to i.d. requests. helps in that regard in all three instances. no actually it doesn't and

the bush administration itself its own d.o.j. was unable to find any instance of in person impersonated at the polling place a lot of their airing this out have you watch the videos when he walks in the new hampshire primary and vermont write a very spirited ballot i have our james o'keefe where james o'keefe. committed voter fraud himself of course of service because you can look at dorothy rodham you do focus. on your garment dromedaries are hearing. i think i can ask you because it also has been on i don't think with a rocker gone that doesn't mean that you know we have to keep everybody out of the band can't play we're going to do was you people voter fraud and say voter fraud isn't happening all right see it i do want to ask you because it is proven that the people who are going to be prevented from voting are african-americans are latinos are minority who don't get it and are able or again these are people that typically

do gamma crap so this law would it benefit republican walls and ugly i mean that way it could cry if they don't get a ten dollar photo i.d. which most of them have anyone. it's very easy to get you so how many thousands of voters are you ok with disenfranchising so i'm ok with the very. good acorn registered. with this in franchising that has have have dick tracy or donald duck ever voted in any election or see in two thousand and six they have really yes i know that when do they. see mary poppins and i'm term of the names that i was picked pretty mary poppins and you know if you. mess. with those in. your life you know things upside i do want to break out and think some of these statistics to light here. at the

it's a million that's nearly one hundred four voters are not registered have no one in eight registrations are significantly inaccurate or are no longer valid and millions of people that are registered. they're registered to vote more than one state so grab it doesn't that show that there are problems within the voting system as they do need to focus oh yes there are huge problems within the voting system and to the list you just read the fact that citizens are not able to oversee the their own results due to the privatization the corporate it corporatization of our election system or voting machines and so forth there's lots of problems for example mitt romney apparently voted in january of two thousand and ten in massachusetts even though he didn't own a home there until july of two thousand and ten and there are only happy that it is that we fix this problem that. well there is a lot of things that you can do unfortunately what is being done what the

republicans are trying to do here has nothing to do with solving any of these problems that's why mitt romney was able to commit voter fraud that's why the. secretary of state of indiana the first state in the union to institute photo id restrictions in two thousand and eight was found guilty last month of three felony counts of voter fraud that's the secretary of state of indiana but it was not done at the polling place people just don't do voter impersonation at the polling place there's not a. view not that i was i do not watch the video the new answer to mine where he tired and i know all the right and i've got ballots where names that were either dead or not them right here that's. the way helling i hope you're calling it like the republican mayor in new hampshire for o'keefe to be arrested for committing never voted look i could never vote i knew that he went out

to his car to get his i.d. . all right i tried to be a little bit out of the world there was a you know relation that this law is politically motivated because the fact that it does benefit a certain you can republicans basically because it would exclude a lot of democratic voters what is your response to that that there is a political motivation behind it's not my fault the democrats she more than republicans were proposing them from voting by requiring both already the vote of the voters voting places. that were sure evidence that the guy was going to ask you this this is a guy i don't know when you said democrats are going to be precluded from voting by requiring but why do you have not having i.d.'s does that mean that they're cheating the system means that it means that if the voting is overwhelmingly helped by not having a voter i.d. for democrats that pretty much leads to there's some cheating going on the benefits democrats all are acorn. what does not having a photo id have to do with cheating and what does

a lot more know what i'm saying it will be watering a photo id because i'm a democrat voter all right you can easily draw the conclusion that the not requiring a photo id helps democratic voters obviously a very controversial topic as a lot of the voter new voter laws go into effect and it's questionable as to how it will impact the outcome of the election but thank you so much for participating in this debate that was investigative journalist brad friedman and our los angeles studio at the end modern sci fi and motley president of the last government here in d.c. . and that is going to do for the news for tonight but be sure to stick around for the big picture that's coming up at the top of the hours tonight is primary night and some of these southern states in the us are taking part in it republican voters in alabama mississippi and why are heading to the polls and at this very point every delegate counts all four candidates are shelling out big bucks on ads to win

over the voters and where does the money come from shady super. acts of course tonight host tom hartman will tell you why we don't have candidates running for office anymore we have super pacs and then later tom will sit down with the vice president of the lexington institute and a recent college graduate stuck with a six figure student loan debt to talk about the skyrocketing price of higher education in the us these days and question if the government is investing enough in america's intellectual infrastructure it's all new at nine p. . welcome more of the stories that we covered you can head on over to our team dot com slash usa they will find several stories we don't always have time to get to on the air one of a story on our web team brought about a battle of the proportions the electronic privacy information center better known as epic is suing the united states' national security agency to find out the truth behind the alleged partnership.