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. so we'll get the real headlines that's not. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back. is the state run. russian channel it's kind of like.
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russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. our guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program so i wrote this week we spoke about the mainstream media how to give preferential treatment to certain candidates maybe like santorum and romney. so we want to know is that because of his current standings in the polls or might it be something else that producer treasonous and you to find out what you had to say. on the streets of d.c. to tell people in the nation's capital what our viewers have to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we shake or delete. as mitt romney continues to win more state primaries in is getting all the media
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attention we asked our viewers why has ron paul failed to win more contests kyl said ron paul has a strong outspoken following that at first seems impressive but failed to grow like other candidates do you want to keep it or delete it or keep. think it's true i think you know ron paul's consistently gets you know five to fifteen percent in each state became really expand my coalition big teddy said the corporate media hates ron paul they minimize his presence or support at every turn do you want to keep it or delete it it's. kind of regular i mean he doesn't really get out there that much paschal ism said sorry there's just no big conspiracy theory here americans just don't like ron paul you want to believe it well i mean. the reason why they don't like him as more to do it. is to a lot of talk from the mainstream mitt romney's more i guess he's a more moderate. well the two republican front runners get all the media attention we should not forget that ron paul came in third in this week's illinois primary so
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for a lot of americans his message it's still important. to. our guys thanks for your sponsors as usual and here's our next question for you tomorrow is the deadline for president obama to announce his nominee for president of the world bank a position that an american has held since the bank was founded after world war two so do you think that obama will continue the tradition of nominating an american and who do you think will be honest on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. when newly released documents show the department of homeland security closely monitored the occupy wall street movement it also shows that they were concerned about crossing the line and unconstitutional surveillance that was the first organization to file a freedom of information act request with the h.s. on the matter so the first to get the hundreds of pages of internal documents and
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we've been given bits of information here and there in the six months since occupy began. to report it was released by wiki leaks after obtaining scrappers e-mails so we don't profess obviously had an interest but do these documents show as if they ever actually broke the law by late at the deliberating what about the question of a court in a to occupy crack down to enemy our studio in los angeles is jason leopold lead investigative reporter for truth. case thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters i mean there's nearly four hundred pages of documents you've got here what stuck out to you the most. yeah that's right there are about four hundred pages and what stood out the most was the fact that there was it was unclear within the department of homeland security what they could include and to. there is no question that some officials within the agency sered that what they were doing that some of their actions in terms of monitoring occupy wall street rose to the level
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of authorized surveillance and it states that clearly documents but at the same time we don't have any direct proof you'd say right out of these documents tell you for sure that the they crossed the line. that's true they do not state that and in fact i want to point out that there's no smoking gun within these documents within these four hundred pages about the department of homeland security taking part in a coordinated crackdown of the dismantling of the occupy encampments and crackdown on the protests but there is no question that there were concerns about civil liberties violations and in fact i want to just point out that in your introduction you mentioned the document turned over the wiki that we can leave. received on the department of homeland security and its role in monitoring wall street that document is actually referenced in the cash that that i received yesterday and in
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that document actually was a cause of concern for the department of homeland security because some officials actually said that the preparation of this particular five page report was an unauthorized and as a result. it was unauthorized and posted on the internal database information that's also shared with the f.b.i. and they scrubbed it they ended up scrubbing that because it again. fears that it rose to the level of surveillance i would say that feels a little fishy to me because if you go back to that document that stratfor had the way they compiled it all the sources it was open source they basically just cut and paste the little tidbits from new york times articles from bloomberg articles it was something that anybody out there could have found and so does it seem to you like they were being overly careful right i mean these days i guess it would be nice to assume that our federal agencies always comply with the law always had
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respect for civil liberties but i think that more often than not we have to be skeptical of that these days and so is it actually kind of a relief you know what is the should we be happy that they actually were so careful about it. well i think that i don't think there should be a relief at all because it's clear that they were clearly monitoring occupy wall street from the inception of the of the organization of the movement before there was even a protest they were preparing threat assessments i mean there's information in these documents about a threat assessment that the prepared for occupy pittsburgh and it's that particular threat assessment that concerns. some agency officials that they were crossing the line they were violating the first amendment i also want to point out that these are just the first batch of documents that the department of homeland security has turned over in fact it's just an interim release i spoke to one of the
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four analysts there yesterday and we should expect another batch in mid april and these documents will continue to be released by the agency over the next several months. showing exactly what they were involved in so more there's more to be revealed more information to be revealed. highlighting exactly what the agency's role was so i don't think anyone should sit back and say oh this is a relief the. question about civil liberties but then jane let me ask you i don't want to sound sure tauriel here but some people look at it and they can tell from these documents that if i'm at home and hearings getting a lot of where requests on this infinitely could tell that there was a lot of interest a lot of people want to defend cover and so do you think there's any chance that they are being extra careful. yes it's actually funny that you point out the.
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point of a conversation i had yesterday yes they actually mention in these documents that some of the talking to answer they discovered were the subject of a request i filed my story requests are over thirty first. and i think that some of the information that was going back and forth at least on some of the senior level officials to me indicated that they were aware that their words that their actions that the materials that they were distributing would eventually end up being disclosed publicly and so last may i ask you to use i mean i know that you try to get information from the f.b.i. they're so claiming they don't have any documents that occupy wall street but you also try to go local to the n.y.p.d. has the freedom of information law in new york and do you think that that's where i mean that to me sounds almost more fascinating especially now that we find out how exactly the n.y.p.d. does surveillance within the muslim community do you think the that might be more troubling. oh there's no question that the documents and
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the information that the new york police department and its joint terrorism task force have would be very troubling it remains to be seen what they'll turn over there's no question in my mind that they have photographs c.d.o. clearcut threat assessments. so it's a matter of time before they at least state me you know what they'll turn over and what's privilege but i think that that would definitely be more troubling and i think the same goes for oakland as well i guess not thanks so much for joining us tonight and. well keep on the lookout for when you get the next batches of documents they keep coming from v.h.s. thank you. last night occupy wall street joined thousands of marchers and took to the streets of new york city part of the million hoody march their demand was justice in the tragic case of trayvon martin trayvon as a seventeen year old black boy who was shot and killed last month in florida by
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neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman and martin wearing a hooded sweatshirt was armed with nothing but a bag of skittles and iced tea and the shooter was even arrested local officials invoked self defense and was stories grabbed hold of the country in a way that so few do because the death of trayvon martin is fundamentally about justice and how it's cold out which is not equally boys dead whose only crime is many have said seems to be walking down the streets of being black his killer is free speaking last night to the crowd new york city is councilman jimmy williams. well this country rocker is going to the doctor quick little. guy wanted a good trip. back to the bottle. and protesters
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joined by new york city councilman the family of trayvon martin and occupiers all march in union square times square and both places they are met with a massive police presence something the occupy wall streeters are quite familiar with and vocal about the reports of chance like no justice no peace effort the police make stand with calls for justice for trayvon martin so you might be wondering right about now why does the occupy wall street joined a march in solidarity that actually make sense occupy wall street which started off focus on the lack of fairness the lack of accountability on wall street in the financial sector but according to movement aims to fight injustice in all its forms in this country whether the ariss justice system while a police or a corrupt washington it's about americans waking up to the reality that justice is not being served for trayvon martin or for the millions of americans whose voices are drowned out by the minute moneyed interests that control both the political and economic system in this country and the fight will continue across the country
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tonight in d.c. there's a vigil for trayvon martin that's going to be held at seven pm at howard university and this weekend a rally is going to be held at freedom plaza home of the washington d.c. chapter of occupy the look that the million hoodie march is just the beginning. of time for a last break of the evening book coming out he said there's simply no time to pass the stock act that was actually done aggression insider trading harry reid wins are tools on wars and on happy hour gangs of beautiful women trolling the highways in search of male sperm and then word on the street is that obama could formally endorse a marriage by december. all that. people calling what you said for free and fair elections.
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and they're still reporting from the. map you can hear behind the loud explosions. you know so much to the story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's you some of the part of it and realize that everything you saw you don't. charge the big picture.
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trading on congressional knowledge act this is perth introduced to congress almost five years ago and may two thousand and seven it was designed to stop elected officials and their staffers from profiting off of the nonpublic information that's regularly disclosed in the corridors of power it's also designed to stop lobbyists research analysts other people within the so-called political intelligence industry from selling that nonpublic information to speculators so it's what about why the purity is rightly to congress. what a force political intelligence to disclose their activities and a lot of people out there that this stuff was already illegal but thanks to a lack of robust due to sherry agreements and better regulation it was not so congress people in hedge funds therefore gleefully profit off of profit off of insider info in the shadows almost americans are made to police fully unaware and suddenly for me saw a spate of news stories coming out about it we spoke about it here on the show and then in november of last year the issue shot to prominence after
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a sixty minutes feature on c.b.s. shed light on the problem and ignited a fire storm on capitol hill the stock act was originally drafted by representative louise slaughter a new york democrat and reintroduced in march by tim waltz democratic congressman from minnesota and it was dragged co-sponsored by a gaggle of congresspeople all seeking to cover their asses but when house financial services committee chair spencer bock is moved to mark up this bill he will stop by wall street darling virginia republican house majority leader eric cantor move its outreach amongst republicans who are obviously conscious of the p.r. nightmare on their hands but then house republicans got luckily they were tossed a lifeline when president obama touted the stock act in his state of the union speech. insider trading by members of congress and signed into law. so senators both republicans and democrats got to work on the stock act and suddenly stopping insider trading with the in thing to do now it's
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a capitol hill move over lobbyist succeeded in just stripping the senate bill of all the important provisions that are forcing political intelligence agents to register as a lobbyist have to do the beer and really the bill nearly proposed to study the issue that's washington talk for let it die just so you guys know but twitter star i were republicans senator charles grassley introduced the registration amendment that would have allowed regulators to catch private sector actors that trade on this insider information harvested from congress and that amendment actually passed by a vote of sixty to thirty nine when the stock act made its way down to the house house majority leader eric cantor watered down he stripped of the grassley amendment and another key of it which would have strengthened anti-corruption laws and he put that bill in suspension which meant that it couldn't be amended by anybody in the house so all of this this long story this all brings us back to harry reid there was some hope out there that these amendments would be reinserted if the senate voted to put this bill of for a conference committee but reid perfuse and said he took up cantor's version
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arguing of a conference committee simply would have taken too much time but if you decide to follow the money and other motive for reid's move the parent is a massive beneficiary of lobbying firms and last week large debts and according to open secrets dot org between two thousand and seven and twenty twelve securities and investment firms and lobbying firms were his second and third third largest donors both industries are king and political intelligence so we just can't help but question reid claim that the conference committee would take in too much time and so for that sorry excuse about a senator is tonight's told time when. our guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer adrianne a zero and alex that's all since the end there of progress dot org thanks for
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joining me guys thanks. i mean so we just have this tool time and have a lot of corruption stuff in it and you see everything is a lot of down and then a lot of time you know i guess that we have we just know the thing these things go on for you don't necessarily expect lobbyist to be so blatant about it or to brag about it but public report put out as they will be oh of lobbyist at a conference basically bragging about how they got somebody reelected and how it's going to help them take a listen. well. played . i like i said you know i really get there to conference on the stage do people know that stuff is going to happen good on you tube though like this is i mean we're in the age of i don't know modernity it's going to people are going to know that you
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said those things i don't know maybe after the question i for one was shocked totally shocked that spencer baucus the guy convicted or not convicted but implied in an insider trading case that sixty minutes reported on that he was bent over backwards for the banks is also bending over backwards for the obvious i mean he's really good but you know it's like the just get thing from yesterday but the gaffe was that he told the truth you know so they just have to realize that in this day and age it's a lie all the time not just when you're talking directly to a reporter oh lovely. ok let's move on to another story and this is i mean it's a pretty serious story here's a here's a local news clip started swinging for you. here sergeant stein's facebook page that got him into trouble on it he calls himself a tea party patriot and a conservative hell bent on defending the constitution and preserving america's great he criticizes everything from president obama's health care plan to his apology for the koran burnings. now we also did was he posted comments saying that
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he's not going to follow the unlawful orders of the commander in chief and so basically now he's facing dismissal like they want to let him go for it and he says i'm completely shocked it's happening is that i've done nothing wrong i've only stated what i was states that i will defend the constitution or not follow a lawful orders and that's a crime what is america coming to then why are you in the military then i mean if you're in the military then why are you not. mean like those two things sort of go hand in hand so you know that's the. time to go. yeah i mean obviously this is a touchy subject because it's a free speech issue and if you weren't a service member you should be totally allowed to express what you. do and the supreme court has upheld that a lot of times and even things there's you know this controversy with the guy in afghanistan there's if you go to
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a psychiatrist in the military you give up your right to confidentiality that you would normally expect there's all kinds of rights that you give up when you enter the military you know and this needs to this is i don't know the details of this case enough to really say but that he's can't really be political you know if you join the military i mean just you know it's time for you to leave if you really want to be an activist there's no room for activism in the military in our way to where it's the right is that if the military is going to function there has to be this sense of discipline yes and of the order and it's the people that are actually fighting these wars and seeing some of the things that i would agree are unlawful actions and that aren't allowed to you know speak out against it but it's it's a very i mean you're seeing that you know you've seen that like what history like so many of the biggest activists were vets were you know x. vets so you can you are more than welcome to say whatever you want after you leave the military but once you're in there that's interesting you say get out first get out yes yes i mean you as an american you can say whatever it is that you want but you're serving your country you know that's that's what you signed up for honestly
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afterwards you can say whatever it is that you want not during right let's move on to another another issue out there actually going to make really happy but you know we've heard about president obama any american leader i guess you could say speak about people's rights all over the world. i still hope. because of the deeper shift that we're seeing a transformation not only will it lead into our laws but all the names of the fabric of our society. well it turns out because the thing about the obama administration is that they obama has never actually come out and said i support gay marriage but an informed source says the active conversations are taking place between the white house and the campaign about whether he should complete his evolution on marriage and the chances of it. before the election really i'll believe it when i see it honestly i kind of like it's not going to be that they be
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like fifty fifty he might actually say the equal right and let's check in to really to see if people are sort of happy that maybe you're going to do that before the election season but there's no i'm a believing christian yeah i love the wording on that it's like clear it sounds like a lawyer wrote it it's so hard and. so careful yeah exactly i mean because he gets it from both sides of this obviously there's a lot of gay men and women who voted for obama and he's been good on tell most things but this is obviously the most important issue so i would certainly come out so yeah i mean i will i would love to see if you were like should this be a glimmer of hope but then i mean how much can you really believe anything and if it may be an epic if if you have everything is what i mean how can you know quote that right there ok. i'm going to quit but i was going to give you the statistic basically twenty one percent of americans said that they would give up sex for one
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year just to keep access to the internet who are these people who are these people i would love to meet them i mean there's a pretty big deal i'm one of those people and i'm telling you right because if i get are you dating anybody how does your girlfriend feel of don't. get a person without me are you know i mean if you give up sex or you try to go have sex you know your chances of getting sex are questionable but if you want the internet you have a hundred percent chance of getting the internet so. they're not close out all the time you could have a really bad. i think mel i mean that's i guess i mean i pray god does not tie my internet doesn't work in my own apartment but i we're not the worst currently fifty six percent of people in japan that they would give up sex for the make sense i know bob is reading some of the news there is coming out of that are going to wrap it up but thanks for joining me tonight i think for night's show thanks for tuning in and make you come back tomorrow politico's the academy's going to be joining us
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