it's friday you ready to rumble joining me tonight for the big picture rumbalara anthony home republican strategist sam bennett president and c.e.o. of the she should run foundation and nicholas ballsy senior video reporter at the

daily caller thanks for all of you for being here it was a very tough week for the u.s. military in afghanistan tough week for the afghan people we have this staff sergeant robert bales he's been identified. apparently went nuts all alone although in afghanistan today they were taking earlier today taking testimony from eyewitnesses who said that there was at least two or three soldiers and that they were all drunk. murdered sixteen afghan civilians karzai is calling for us to withdraw from all the rural areas of the country which is like ninety nine percent of the country and that the taliban has not only are they cutting off negotiations with us but they're no longer going to have this office and qatar where they could meet us on neutral territory isn't it time that we should be looking at just getting the hell out like we did with saigon only after saigon there was a crash i actually knew someone who loved saigon as a seven year old a month after we'd left and most of her fan. they've been murdered. do it the way

that we pulled out of germany and. by saying with the marshall plan ok this is a country with a two billion dollar euro coffee that's their g.d.p. it was the second poorest country the world here's another two billion year old choices richer another four billion or ten we're spending fourteen billion dollars you are right now give them enough money that they can build themselves rather than making some mt in south carolina and shipping over there this makes sense but i'd love to dive and i actually lived in saigon vietnam during the war stepmother ran a plastic surgery unit for injured children and so we were there after the tet offensive and i think the marshall plan absolutely provides a clear example of how you can disentangle yourself from some of these things but lay the groundwork because clearly and unless we make some types of investment that are functional we're asking for trouble so we do need to make some investments we can't just dump money on the problem we've learned then haiti we drop seven billion

and three million people and didn't lift them up to give them more they needed it being about so there's infrastructure to go your way afghanistan is infrastructure they didn't actually do better than haiti look there's there's a couple different things going on here one is a tragic event occurred and sadly around the world we have them some crazy person goes and kills children goes on to university we have them here we have them in scandinavia now the question is do we pull out perhaps we should pull out i'm not are you known or the other but this is not because one crazy person on a scale that is variable tragically i don't think he should have been there in the first place but this is the longest war in the history of the united states even george washington where president obama has a lot of political capital at stake here in this war i mean he ran on let's escalate the amount of troops there we have to see if we took our eye off the ball so to speak in iraq we need to focus on afghanistan and now the afghan president is saying it's time to get out we can secure ourselves when the literacy rate. example

among the troops the afghan army is really low still but they say they can secure themselves so the issue is does president obama and congress say ok you know we're going to get out a year earlier that initially anticipated raises an interesting political issue and that is that if you know jury ford isn't generally blamed for being the guy who was president when we left saigon you know for and in fact for some reason democrats complain for that but you're a ford was president but if the president were to withdraw before november wouldn't all the conservatives become another would say he just lost their counsel. well sure they're going to attack him on whatever they can attack him on an election year but that fact remains what's the most functional reasonable thing to do and if this incident unfortunately has created such cultural dissension we may have our hands forced on this one we may have to leave maybe only practical solution but the tradeoff is we went in there because they were harboring terrorists who are trying to harm us who are now gone they're gone maybe maybe not number one we don't know

that somebody military intelligence service members are under those right and we can see here in particular but it's a military decision that of the day we're talking about n.x. and you're asking about what would happen if pulled out before november so you making a political discredit question look at me the one of the other flops right that he's done so i consider bizarrely nowheres that there's a political dimension to this but speaking of politics listen let's turn to wall street this week actually there's a there's a political piece of this this week former goldman sachs exact executive director in fact he was in charge of selling all u.s. based derivatives in europe asia and africa is a pretty big deal job greg smith resigned and then wrote this op ed saying that basically goldman sachs is that vampire squid. colored customers muppets ladies square and then another was a blower fellow at the education management corp second largest private college

corporation in america. that the company is quote motivated by profit rather than student success or ratings both course it's a for profit company they're supposed to be motivated by profit which raises the question why do we allow for profit educational institutions a whole second secondary thing they're also he said engaging in predatory lending we now have student debt over a trillion dollars is larger than credit card debt do we have an economy that's based on another bubble and shouldn't we be doing something about this. it wants to go yeah. i think if you look at the influence of wall street you have to look at the influence it has on politics in general the political system and you have a group of senate democrats who are saying we have to go as far as amending the constitution to keep corporate money out of politics like goldman sachs money which has a lot of influence but the problem is their own party isn't winning on that issue you've got president obama with his super pac right now and there are the democrats

are making the case that hey you know we want to compete we have to get this right you have been here here is it here we have there let me just look this is the biggest response this is from after world war two right up until the reagan administration manufacture in the united states we had manufacturing policy and this is the banking industry the finance industry and then all of a sudden in the eighty's they flipped and manufacturing went into a total nosedive and finance now is over twenty one percent in fact i think it's up to around twenty four percent now and in manufacturing now is below ten percent this is two thousand and nine numbers this is the destruction of an economy where you have an i pod and we don't know there's a coming least a lack of political will to make sure that our manufacturing component of our culture our society where the heck you are qana me is preserved and so one there's been a lack of investment look i'm trying to do your pursuit of this is the evolution i just said is man believe at a time like this even if you're serious so i really feel is you know many in the

absence of the private sector doing that look good government and this is a government that's why we have family in freddie and larry hundred billion has us look at that really the cation afford forward had a gifted c.e.o. who said i'm he he negotiated with the head of uni w. here and said listen if i keep the plants here yes then don't take them to mexico can you roll with that if we make a few concessions yes they have to be allowed to do with private banks needed it would. you thought you might be slightly dreaming are you when you exhibit the political will to preserve manufacturing you keep it that and here it has you know that is political there's a sadness in the lack of i'm going to know that that is a change of our trade policy is the it was the lack of blacks. as i notice it or take well this i suppose is the. i'm sorry that's what i mean there's there's so many issues at stake here but i mean are we focusing on how the government can do this because i mean the democrats talk about making america

make it in america on capitol hill all the time but you know are they advocating how are they advocating for that it's not clear from wall street to the government lending but the truth of the matter is that there are certain very vital roles that governments need to play the collective part of as the government should not be are there no i'm that's not what i'm saying look at fort ford was in a position where they didn't have to get government bailout right but what they did was they were g.m. is paid auto loans back you know what i mean what is lacking here what is lacking is the government should be in the business of education because when you let business in the business of education you get the kind of results are serious and i know the argument has to do with the general what you do but there's a certain thing where you and you get to play and the government came in and negotiate in say the contract to the union so you know all the government has to play by here is s.c. and save the jobs i'll go with that moving out of the war on women if this is going

to i'm talking this place to sit down i think you're right there's been over your taxes. the state is losing texas is losing their medicaid funding for women's health programs because they cut off funding right here in arizona republicans are considering legislation to force women to give their entire life medical records to their employer to their employers to you know the guy who runs the company gets to go our store with credible and pennsylvania doctor. parker. governor corbett tom corbett the republican governor says if women don't like the ultrasound right the state sanctioned rape i call it then they should just quote his words just close their eyes and quote if they have a problem right wall street n.b.c. wall street journal n.b.c. news poll says fifty one percent they asked americans we should be controlling congress after the next election fifty one percent of americans said democrats thirty six percent of americans said republicans are republicans committing suicide

with this and limbaugh and everything else this war they are committing suicide rick ten santorum two results just speak for themselves he lost by six points when you among republican women along and what's going on i would argue tom what's going on here is here we are always beat this drum but we're going ninety seventh in the world in the number of women elected office and where is that most evident if that legislation is being written right now and where is it even more evident if you ask congress is only seventeen percent women guess what fourteen percent of them are democrats only three percent of the republican and you see the results right there more women in government would mean that would be prevented and more women in the republican party would mean legislation like that wouldn't be happening what's so was this nicholas was this bad strategy on the part of the republicans or is that they can't help themselves or crazy fringe that's wagging the dog what's going on i think if you look at the of the issues started with the health care law a provision in the health care law that would that would require religious institutions to pay for contraception actually you know what examples of religious

institutions it required corporations that are not religious but our own by religious order institutions well at exams and churches in the in the health care of all that was the provision and that sort of the conch the controversy happened because it was there anything else. i don't know how to put it on and i started out in one church. and whether the republicans one wanted to take. the their eye off of the health care law and make it specifically about women's issues that is the decision of the messaging of the republican party in congress and the republican national public employee but i mean this all goes back to i mean at least what i'm hearing on the hill the health care law is limiting that has people fairly lost me conversely that's only. thirty seconds is that you know there are seven states who have this there are seven more trying to get it that's twenty five percent of america isn't a bad political issue for republicans clearly see that in the electorate and what

is occurring here is incredibly political obama being the ultimate one percent or a millionaire went to harvard now in power i would agree with you states' rights who has the opportunity i'm going to withhold the money you're not getting on my bad wagon i'm going to punish you with money that's that's pushing a lot of day to go you have that oh you're not answering the question that's how the person you aren't any i will be back with more rubble after.

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well go back to the guides big picture rumble joining me tonight are anthony home sam bennett and nick ballasts e let's go back to it to reuters britain is studying set to collaborate with the u.s. in releasing strategic oil reserves if i could drop the price of oil three dollars right after the announcement. i don't think that this is going to be the big thing the price of gasoline is at

a record high and yet right now in the united states we have more gasoline than we've ever had we have so much gasoline in fact that the number one manufacturer export in the united states is not cars or computers or bluejeans it's gasoline we're exporting more gasoline than we ever have in the you know in history where we've become a net gasoline exporter for the first time since the one nine hundred sixty s. and which keeps prices up right ship the stuff off shore and then on top of that in the last year and a half we've gone from yes being a buck eighty a gallon and seventy percent of all futures trading being done by actual intraparty . traders gasoline manufacturers and gasoline users or you know airlines and oil companies so now oh just over the last four months seventy three percent of all the trades being held by banks on wall street where they're basically pulling all that oil like gasoline off the market and the prices shooting up shouldn't we be doing something about this shouldn't there be government intervention you know

there are so many things we could say you just find that the best you can take your seventy five cents out of every gallon of gas about the government's taken sixty cents on average roughly in taxes to the problems of the year of the road you drive isn't the cost of oil that has gone up as the input it's the buying power of the dollar that has gone down we have gone from ten billion or ten trillion rather in debt to sixteen buying power of the dollars eroded so your core commodity costs are all up and by the way and yes i can. these are these are current gas prices these are average national gas prices this is exactly more of was close very close to where they were in two thousand and eight four years ago and so you know that doesn't go to me like how as a dollar i agree with an object weight relative to the yen relative to the euro dollar has been dropping you know relative to other currencies it hasn't dropped as much but that that doesn't account for you think wall street is doing this yeah i do wall street it is clear the difference clear that wall street's doing this right because if you have more supply then the price of crude not but you know what i'm

going to have to agree with them i don't think the government should intervene because the best thing that's happening to us in the long range let those prices go as high as they want because that spurs alternative energy quite frankly which has been stymied in this country and the other the rest of the world where he goes without saying well you're causing the democrats passed dodd frank to rein in wall street and they keep advocating for you have to crack down on the speculators because that's what's keeping the price i republicans want to expand drilling because they'll that will send a message to the markets we're serious about relying on our own oil here in america not you know foreign oil but you still see the price high so i mean what is the answer there and then requests have already started frank in implementing that and we haven't seen results i mean i probably haven't i don't i friend has been under funded by congress and it has put into place no regulations there are not if you are it's not you know thirty thoughts recently or nine hundred thirty five until it

got blown up with the commodity futures modernization act in one thousand nine hundred two thousand by phil gramm during that entire period of time you couldn't have more than twenty percent of all futures trades in any commodity be done by people who weren't either as backchannel buyers or actual sellers phil graham blew that out because his wife when he was on the board of enron and this made a fortune for candlelight literally made forty million bucks like that forty billion dollars and and. now we've got bankers who are old and seventy percent of our community if we don't i think we should go back to what worked from thirty five to two thousand and i wouldn't argue with that because we get speculators are the problem so to say you do a very much oh no no no i was saying xander for us for a long read it's better for us in the long range if we let prices be high because the alternative energy which is our new choice here which is our hero you are out of here out there who is a he added layer and i get to know you were over seven thousand five hundred we have now we have it we're at last question this week president obama's reelection

team released a new documentary highlighting the president's successes over his first term take a look. time and time again we would see rewards from tough decisions he made. not for quick political gain. but for long term and enduring change. so when we remember this moment. and consider this present. then and now. let's remember how far we've come. and look forward to the work still to be done. in case you didn't recognize that that was one of america's most adored actors tom hanks narrating that thing so not to be outdone by the president who might the republican candidates for president have to narrate their own documentaries a mitt romney robin leach famous for his lifestyles of the rich and famous or b.

rick santorum santorum picks teen heartthrob turned rapture enthusiasm kirk cameron who else could invade it convey the urgency of the coming religious war in america or c. ron paul picks america's favorite godhead snoop doggy dog truth of the republican voters who call themselves libertarians is because they want to get high and get laid. so what i want is what it might take us clint eastwood he's not one of those but that he can redeem himself at the republican party for causing all that kerfuffle before so i would pick clint eastwood ok he's the only one here going to advocate a woman kim kardashian of course hollywood tries to elect yet another president and which president well they did it four years ago oh uncle we've done a word of ok i can see jon voight or kelsey grammer. and my guess is the new gingrich is going to pick buzz aldrin because he can convey the words of having a moon colony ok i mean sam nichols thank you all for joining us tonight i think

you're going to have you with us. if you want to know massachusetts senator scott brown got his mojo back and should i ask this guy karl rove. this is not her world that's called a political rant a piece this week settle how scott brown got his mojo back brown was getting decimated in the polls by progressive challenger elizabeth warren just a few months ago but is now sitting pretty nine points ahead of warren today and politico concluded the brown is polling better thanks to some savvy there's a quote some savvy legislative moves that it put them in crowds on notice that ousting the first term as just a republican will be anything but easy even with a first class challenger end of quote but nowhere in the article is political

mention the real reason behind brown getting his mojo back and that real reason is karl rove's super pac the same with this is a long article titled scott brown's triumphant make over which includes but as it uses senator has pulled ahead of elizabeth warren in the polls by running away from the tea party i thought about karl rove anywhere in the article or this piece from the boston globe titled democratic jitters in senate race which made no mention of rove either but tied brown's resurgence to his success these past few months in crafting an independent bipartisan image what all these journalists seem to be missing is crawl roads takedown of elizabeth warren back in december from the for the for the moment worn jumped in the race for the moment she jumped in the race she started making up ground on scott brown in the polls and by december she had opened up

a seven point lead on the incumbent conservatives got worried so they dispatched their top political hit man to massachusetts karl rove and his corporate super pac crossroads g.p.s. to smart start smearing warren and december eighth rove put out out this. the first thing i'm going to promise is that i'm going to be a voice in the room on behalf of middle class families really congress had war and oversee how your tax dollars were spent bailing out the same banks that helped cause the financial meltdown bailouts that help pay big bonuses to bank executives well middle class americans last hour later this morning went on a charm offensive with some of the same banks who got bailed out tell professor warren we need jobs more bailouts and bigger government. bizarrely karl rove was able to paint elizabeth warren someone who's going to champion for the middle class all her life as an agent of wall street warren responded to the ad by saying

i can't find the right words to describe how wrong it is factually wrong and morally wrong despite the ad being morally and factually wrong it worked and it worked immediately warren's poll numbers paint right after that ad you just saw a ramp in just one month from those of november to december of last year rose super pacs spent over four hundred thousand dollars targeting warren in just the city of boston alone and after the damage was done and had brown pulled ahead of warren with rove's help he reached out to warren at the energy to make a pact with her to bar outside money from the race by then ground it opened up a ten point lead on warren thanks to roads attack that's up political hit jobs work in our post citizens united nation and it should have been the lead in all of those stories that is mentioned about the broader war and race in massachusetts a super pac flies in a town aired airdrops tons of negative ads funded by millionaires and billionaires swings the polls or pull fifteen points in favor of their guy and then gets out of

town expect to see a lot more of those a lot more as we will roll toward november if four hundred thousand dollars spent on ads filled with lies and innuendo and take down elizabeth warren in massachusetts and imagine what hundreds of millions of dollars will do to progressive democrats and president obama this fall and make no mistake that money and those ads are coming karl rove will raise over one hundred and maybe several hundred million dollars u.s. chamber of commerce has pledged to spend over forty million dollars most of it will almost certainly be for ads to destroy progresses and the president and by the way don't expect the corporate media to blow the whistle on this or on the billionaires who are thrown in the republicans in their primary you didn't hear or see or read about rove attacking they aren't anymore than you don't hear about the corporate if you're the corporate media referring to gingrich as show. edelman's man or santorum is foster friezes guy or romney is paul sr and john paulson's man because the corporate media are the ones who end up with all that super pac money via t.v.

radio print or even internet advertising it all goes to the media and we're talking big bucks here this election cycle could well see over two billion dollars spent almost all of it to the media which seems so reluctant to report on or about super pac money heading their way as americans concerned about the integrity of our electoral process we all need to be paying close attention to what's going on in massachusetts and we need to be talking about the media's refusal to cover the real story because the unelected because a five i don't like you right wingers on the supreme court our nation is now in uncharted waters for a democracy if your eyes and ears open and call these big spenders out when you learn about them. that's it for the big picture tonight it's always remember that my radio show is now on a live three to six pm eastern on free speech t.v. and radio stations across the nation and around the world and don't forget democracy begins when you stand up and speak out it begins when you say hey did you

see that newspaper article and you see a washing post article it didn't mention anything about karl rove swinging the electorate in favor of scott brown why would that be any help get out there tell a few people pass it along get active and your it will see an expert.

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