president obama says it's necessary to ensure national security in times of emergency critics call it a blueprint for peace time martial law we'll tell you how a new executive order could move the u.s. one step closer to war with iraq. least loved by republican party insiders least covered by the media or ron paul isn't done to fighting gatton his supporters are standing their ground so as the republican field narrows will this presidential candidate ever get the attention or respect he deserves. plus how much does it take to buy your own your very own

lawmaker if you're some of them come with a half the price tag will tell you how special interest groups are buying democracy . it's tuesday march twentieth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well an executive order signed by president obama has sparked controversy on both sides of the political aisle the national defense resources preparedness executive order was signed quietly friday night and it gives the president the power to control u.s. resources in times of war and peace and this includes food water oil and transportation now some are concerned that this could lead to the executive branch having absolute authority over the nation's resources and others question if this

is all in preparation to go to war with iran here's what white house press secretary jay carney how he answered that question at a press conference recently and some commentators. were to all of the. water in the system were time it was supposed to. suggest what. the word. explained with the word. well i cannot explain the reaction to it i think it was a fairly. standard routine piece of business so is this just business as usual or does it give the executive branch an unprecedented amount of power and should americans be alarmed about this executive order well i posed that question earlier to charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news dot com here's his take. i mean absolutely i think we should be alarmed about this executive order as well as you know legislation that has been rammed through congress and or and or executive

orders that we've seen in the last several years you know just truly goes all the way back to nine eleven and the patriot act ever since then we've seen one piece of . liberty destroying legislation or another the latest of course being this executive order absolutely if you read this thing it you know they can allocate the resources they can commandeer resources and equipment and personnel wartime or peacetime if it reads like a a cheap military novel on how it a government could take over and declare martial law and impose it with the authority of an executive order as cover and talk about the significance of that because similar orders have been signed by previous presidents but what really separates this apart from the other ones is the fact that he can exercise these powers in war and peace time so what does that mean that when can he exercise absolute authority it seems like it's not necessarily just in times of emergency or

or what does this all mean. well that's a really good question liz and i think that's why we're talking about it you know we know that eric holder has just rationalize killing american citizens you know they sent hellfire missiles in order to get rid of computer computer rabble rousers that was a walkies title before they needed some kind of leader you know kind of before they were so we don't know we don't know what the executive branch how they can exercise this authority that they're giving yourself you know but i think it's clear and it should be clear to everybody even the people who are sold out that the government is righteous and the government is doing everything on their behalf if we look at just the past four five years worth of legislation and executive orders it paints a pretty grim picture of what is happening to this so once great republic. now well you heard we said earlier we heard that we heard the president terry white house press secretary jay carney kind of laughed at the fact that. in fact that this

could be used in preparation for war with iran do you think that this could be part of the picture that i could be the motivation behind the order. that that's a great question liz and that is what we should be asking why why do we need things like this executive order why we need things like national defense authorization act two thousand and twelve why do we need legislation that prevents people from protesting or making a federal crime you know does the government understand realize that we're heading into a lot harder more difficult times then they're already there we are hearing right now so do you think this legislation in place so they can put the boot heel of a tyrannical government on the people were pushing back so i mean it's a good question and i guess time will bear out what all these puzzle pieces are put into place for well another thing that is raising eyebrows is the timing of this order it was signed late friday night before st patrick's day do you find the timing strange absolutely absolutely but we see that we've seen

a lot over the last couple years or pieces. legislation or as ac and washington were sausage will be made behind closed doors they'll both come out and they're trying to sell it as a good thing for the nation but inevitably when you know liberty is stolen from the people of this country it is don't behind closed doors when you know most people are out enjoying something in the pop culture and this legislation obviously has major implications for the rights of all u.s. citizens but we aren't hearing much about it and the mainstream news of why not i'll fall back on the standard answer which is you know you have a handful of corporations that control eighty to ninety percent of the news it's disseminated through either printer computer or television and absolutely there's a an agenda around that reporting of the news and i think that's why you know the things that are sensationalized are often trivial and meaningless to the future of this country at least to the future of the individuals in this country and damning pieces of legislation get passed it's absolutely insane and you know we see the

same thing from legislation to the political arena you alluded to it in the earlier clip about ron paul is forgotten by the mainstream media so i mean it's not surprising you know all these things are being done to usurp our freedom usurp our liberty destroy the constitution of the mainstream media in my opinion is somewhat culpable for giving it a pass on all these pieces of legislation now charlie we're seeing things like the national defense authorization act in some way this bill proposed this anti protest bill which restricts how people can protest and where they can protest now receive an executive order like this with all this accommodating or what do you think it has to say about the administration. and what what this means for fundamental rights americans fundamental rights. the rights are gone i mean if you think you have a country that's a government by constitution wake up because you know that the fact of the matter is you were not having this conversation over the internet right there you know i

could be labeled a belligerent actor because i'm speaking out against my government because of the authorization of national defense authorization act twenty twelve i could be black bag drug addict one thought about and gotten rid of that is a terrifying prospect in this what's land of the free and charlie why do you think something like this when i hear until much about it very controversial but yet something like this is not we're not hearing too much outrage over our. you know it's funny i mean like we have groups that we're supposed to associate with a partner like in that way see protesting to the u.n. about our election process you do have a very large number of people that are not being reported out that are in alternative media with media like art that are protesting there are speaking out but it's you know if you don't if it doesn't have a voice on the mainstream media then unfortunately the vast majority of people don't hear the message but as we as we continue to march forward lives and i think

this is the reason why we have this legislation to place we are going to see an expansion of the occupy movement we're going to see the expansion of frustration in this country because economically things are not getting better militarily we're still projecting ourself around the world and now we have the government with the tools in place who basically tell us to shut up and take it or else. and that was charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news dot com. but the n.s.a. is new west end because surveillance program it's called total information awareness and the program targets all kinds of electronic information from around the world that includes emails texts and phone conversations from u.s. citizens and here is a look at that center it's a new time it's being called the biggest spy machine ever and existence now earlier i spoke to alex jones about what this means for your privacy take

a listen. years ago bush deny they were doing this because it was illegal and now i saw a wired magazine just a few days ago and they said watch what you say and then they had the secretary of defense they had the cia director. in their portrayal as saying oh we're working with industry they have bugs in tracker systems built into all appliances your dishwasher is going to be listening to you watch what you say we don't need warrants anymore just like they said they'll secretly arrest us just like they say they'll kill us i mean they're just launching all this tyranny you know and face now the head of the cia it's illegal by the way to have him involved in medical care he says yeah the cia is watching you america that is a system in our face telling us you're a slave trying to intimidate us well you know what's outrageous i'm an american i don't work for goldman sachs like you knew all organized i'm here to defend my

republic and i'm not scared of you no matter what happens what you're doing is illegal and just because you publicly announce you're going to arrest and kill citizens and that you're going to spy on us without warrants and they're going to put troops on the streets and they're going to do all this doesn't make it ok it's like when the troops got caught growing opium under orders three years ago in afghanistan they just hid it in plain sight and had fox news c.n.n. go yeah the troops grow the opium and ship it to you in america but if we catch you with it you're going to prison i mean think about how they hide it in plain view yeah we torture yeah we spy on you yeah we do all of this but it's no big deal get used to it you know what we're not going to get used to it you're indicting and convicting yourselves globalist you're a bunch un-american traitors and the people are waking up to what you're doing you have robbed this country blind of tens of trillions of dollars that the banker bailout are trying to conquer the u.s. didn't find any harm i do want to bring them to death for

a summer but i want to play this sound bite from where it's from the defense secretary leon panetta here's what about cyber security. the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack we had to cripples or our power system certainly our grid. so cyber security is a concern you know where becoming more more modernize we have hacktivists it's kind of part of a more modernize world so ship a government that takes steps to address that if it in fact is a threat yeah the u.s. and israeli government launched destruction in iran and now are using the stocks net as a reason to have the government take over all the infrastructure in the internet and put kill switches and all of the devices when they're the ones that have been caught before launching false flags against the internet structure given this isn't a u.s. government it's long gone this is

a bunch of private globalist who have taken over and hijacked our country saying let us take over the internet and shut down people's free speech to protect it it's the opposite that's not what they're doing again this isn't our government anymore that's the point i'm trying to make here and who is it that. you know what who is it that if it's not our government that's your own guess. it is six mega banks goldman sachs j.p. morgan chase and a handful of others that openly have announced the bank of the world the economist magazine admits they've got a goldman sachs takeover of europe hostile takeover of europe it's a private corporate fascist group that have bought off our governments and gotten control of our militaries they control europe they control england they control australia they control the united states and everybody better look out including those of us inside the empire because these crooks know that they've got to fully take over or they're going to end up all going to jail these are crooks these are

crazy bankers that make forty to one bets with their own customers money who have nuclear weapons they are completely full of bravado and chutzpah and everybody better look out and here's the bad news appeasing them won't make them back off it'll only make him get crazier they're running wild. that was alex jones host of the alex jones show. well supporters of republican presidential candidate ron paul feel like they're being ignored and they're getting angry about it take a look at the chaos that broke out at the missouri caucus as yesterday i. see the here you see paul supporters clashing with g.o.p. officials and the organizers say paul backers were being loud in obstruct their crowd say just want to be heard police ended up arresting two of them so are they

in fact being disruptive or is this what they need to do in order to get their voices heard and try to find out what's really going on investigative journalist and publisher of the brad blog brad friedman joined us earlier from our los angeles studio i first asked if there was an effort to silence ron paul supporters here says take. well the fact is they weren't getting a fair shot this was not a matter of ron paul supporters making trouble this was a matter of the party establishment there in st charles county missouri actually trying to hijack this caucus putting in place some rules that they're really not allowed to do according to the republican party rules they. started off this thing saying well we have to turn off all videos all recording devices now there was nothing in the rules about that whatsoever and the ron paul folks know that as soon as you shut down transparency democracy goes away and they were not happy about it

they spoke up as is their right in a caucus like this they tried to follow the rules in fact. reporting in from the folks that i've talked to and certainly from the videos that you can see brad blog . it wasn't the ron paul folks who were breaking the rules here it was the g.o.p. party a stablish ment's and happily the ron paul popes stood up for themselves it was good to see but then they get angry and then they turns out that they get the ammonites for for causing trouble. well they get demonized yes but again that's not their fault that might be the media's fault the corporate media's thought for reporting it that way but the nice thing is we have the video we can see exactly what happened we can see the leader of the ron paul folks brant stafford being arrested by state police out in the parking lot after they had shut down this

caucus without holding their votes without doing anything you can see when he was arrested you can see that he was doing absolutely nothing when he was handcuffed and hauled away and if ron follow ron paul folks are furious about this frankly they have every right to be and i should also add by the way this is not an isolated incident what happened out there in st charles county missouri we also saw it in clay county missouri we also saw it in athens clark county georgia just one week earlier i've got the video of that up at brad blog dot com as well and again it was not a matter of ron paul folks causing trouble it was a matter of the party establishment who was running the delegate convention in that case was a county delegate convention basically shutting out what appeared to be the majority of people at that convention completely ignoring robert's rules of orders the parliamentary procedures they're supposed to use at these events and basically

railroading the entire process shutting it down and doing whatever they want to do no matter what the people there the democracy that has gathered. what they wanted to express i think the tell folks have every right to be outraged about this and i'm glad they're speaking up to be frank there really are appointed. to the race especially that there is frock going on as you point to the fact that we're ever going to have a loud following. so he obviously has a very very big network of supporters that he hasn't won a single caucus that and he is raising suspicion that perhaps there is going i don't really give specifics that when you have things like that that are caught on camera to what extent do you think friday is possible are so far and as well here's . here's where i'll here's where i'll be

a little bit critical of the ron paul folks they do have a tendency to yell fraud simply because they lose elections now i give them credit because they do try to oversee their electoral system which is really important that's next to impossible when you're using touch screen voting machines it's damn near impossible when you're using paper ballots that are counted by computers and in fact there has been fraud where you saw for example in maine in the maine caucus where the state g.o.p. party chair there charlie webster comes out and announces mitt romney as the winner of the maine caucus by one hundred ninety four votes before two entire counties have even held their caucuses yet so i mean this was a you know they were blatantly robbed in that case and we've seen other cases that are similar to it but i would caution the ron paul folks you know while it's important to do everything you can to oversee your election to be as transparent as

possible to not yell fraud every time you lose an election unless you have the evidence to prove it and now we're seeing more and more there is evidence to prove where these people have simply been robbed as they were in st charles missouri as they were in play county i'm sorry clark county georgia in athens georgia. so you know who rather than turn the other way and say oh it's those crazy ron paul people i think the media. do well to pay attention to what it is they're complaining about and what it is but they are trying to oversee with our own democracy here so for hearts of her that it is obvious that there is some kind of an effort to alienate our it to at least silence paul supporters when there's an effort to steal caucuses out and out steal caucuses steal delegates

it's on video in this case this isn't something we have to speculate about caucuses are a lot more transparent than primary elections where the you know they're counted by computers and the citizenry can't see ballots are counted correctly at all but here in caucuses they're very transparent and we can see what has happened and you know you can look again at all i point you to grab blog dot com we've got a lot of video there. showing the republican party establishment blatantly stealing these caucuses stealing these delegate conventions from ron paul supporters you know i get the feeling between this between these polling place photo id laws these restrictions that republicans are putting in place i get the sense that the republican party establishment hates democracy really and now you can see it on videotape brad blog dot com and you tube and everywhere else where transparency

reigns and brad and they're saying stealing the caucus says and you're saying that he gets out the cement doesn't like democracy. i'm not sure about that but this whole notion of stealing caucus doesn't this kind of contradict the whole kind of a democratic election process where everyone's rights as opposed to be heard that's the whole point of voting. of course it completely undermines democracy a lot when it comes to elections i'm nonpartisan on this stuff i will support a republican or democrat or an independent who has been screwed by the electoral system you know a candidate support a republican a democrat independent voter a legal voter who has been disallowed from casting their legal vote but that is what we are seeing we are seeing a concerted effort by the republican party to keep people from voting generally to keep democrats from voting this year and representing it within the party

themselves trying to keep polls of voice out of these caucuses all right brad sorry to interrupt you we're just out of time but pleasure to have you on the show that was a graph friedman and that's the good of journalists and publisher of it the brad blog . and well ron paul's campaign seems to be largely ignored another lawmaker is getting a lot of attention these days are rather his bell as house budget committee chairman paul ryan released his blueprint budget for fiscal year two thousand and thirteen this week a move that offers a massive tax breaks for the one percent while playing the safety out from under the population's not billions but trillions of dollars worth of tax breaks promised well everything from medicaid to social security is put on the chopping block and some republicans say this plan isn't going far enough tonight on the big picture host tom hartman will tell you all about his plan at this plan and now where and how to tell working class americans what else they should be afraid of and this

budget gets the green light that is all new at the top of the hour. and apparently selling out pays off at least if you're a congressman lawmakers serve their time make their connections and when they get out get lucrative careers as lobbyist here are a few examples former congressman billy tauzin a republican from arizona once he jumps to the private sector his salary shot up seven thousand one hundred in ten percent and while he was in congress he voted for the bush prescription plan and now he lobbies for pharmaceutical companies and then there is former senator chris dodd a democrat from connecticut lindsey get out of congress he went on to lobby for the motion picture association for america and it paid off his salary increased by seven hundred sixty two percent and another example there is former senator tom daschle will a democrat from south dakota he found a more lucrative career as

a lobbyist raking in one thousand two hundred and twenty percent more than he did as a member of congress there earlier i spoke with giladi communications an outreach coordinator for united republic and asked his opinions on as to whether this change of roles for a lot of makers was a conflict of interest here's his take. you know exactly there's actually two conflicts of interest the first one is that when you're actually in office you're allowed to continue to negotiate with people for your next job so if you're retiring member of congress you could be talking to the n.p.a. or to the drug industry and saying well i want to become a lobbyist for your organization or for your lobby after i leave office and the very same time you're doing this you could be potentially overseeing legislation it can seriously affect their lobby or their industry i mean quid pro quos are technically illegal but there's very little real oversight or regulation of this and unfortunately that's a huge call for defenders and the other one of course is that once you leave office you had all those connections within the executive branch of the legislative branch

and you can continue to have levels of access for those industries that ordinary people wouldn't have which is why lobbies loved dire former members of congress i look at how often do you think this goes on and it's really interesting there's only foundation which is the transparency would actually look at the careers of everyone who lost their retired in two thousand and ten and the people who are employed now who have jobs. over fifty percent went into someone of lobbying in terms of the people who left congress in twenty ten now well how do you think of this are facts laws that are passed. you know you can in fact in all sorts of ways one really good example is judd gregg judd gregg was a senator from new hampshire republican senator and at the very same time that he was overseeing sort of this financial reform law he was being courted by goldman sachs where he works now are doing sort of over government affairs committee relations sorts of things so you can see that these people have a huge faceless sort of please the lobby to get really great employment after leaving office which is always much more lucrative than their going for years now

well when you have lobbyists that are congressmen that then go into lobbying. as we said conflict of interests whose interest that our lawmakers serving while they're supposed to be serving the public. know exactly i mean the the oath that they take when they enter congress is a no to the constitution is not know to the drug lobby or to chamber of commerce or any other sort of special interest group but. what sort of our system does which allows them to legally become lobbyists and it is time to actual cases not a registered lobbyist but he still more or less influence as congress as a consultant you know what it allows them to do sort of that they took to the public and is instead serves sort of private interests who are paying their marriages amounts of money now you know america we're supposed to be a democracy we elect our leaders but doesn't this that make the voice of the average citizen you're out of it. it's very interesting you know you know in the

united states one of the you know one of the freest countries in the world we have excellent free speech laws action it was a right of assembly but unfortunately we still have elections which are fairly privatized meaning to make a campaign enormous amounts of money that crosses us in that way and we really allow our legislators to become lobbyists you know we have no b. and we have cooling off period so we have to wait a year or two depending what your position is or if you're a staffer but you're still freely allowed to lobby and to join up with these private interests and that to me is a perversion of sort of what our country's about because when you're sharing a private interest it's a form of tyranny because you're not you're not as hell is hurting people who elected you sort of people who pay you money and a tiny group of people paying you money have more influence over you then your constituents then it's not really democracy and how does this happen most of it does happen it happens behind closed doors in secret sure there are a few in terms of negotiating when you're still a sitting member of congress to become a lobbyist there are

a few sort of disclosure requirements on the house side unfortunately there's no public disclosure requirement you had to tell the house ethics committee and the public can find out significantly later on the senate side there's tougher requirements but still after the pre one period called the lame duck period where they after the election happens you basically have free reign to negotiate with people you know not to disclose immediately the current laws are there full of loopholes and honestly it's probably international half of the people in the retiring congress has become law yes of course they don't want rules that will let the public know what they're doing so would you say that that a lot of lawmakers are that motivated by special interests and making money i make it out of office you know and i think they absolutely are and most of them don't want to admit it i mean for example chris dodd he gave an interview in two thousand said when he was still senator he's running for president he told going greenwald of salon you know who would ever want to become a lobbyist or head of a trade association is there's only the extent and then you know lo and behold after he left office he joined the a.p.a. i think you get like a million and a half dollar salary is his.