well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future. studio here in central moscow this is our t. top stories now activists empowering for your continued crackdown as government forces keep up the pressure on peaceful protesters appealing for democracy and the goes largely unreported worldwide while the bahraini regime claims its carrying out reforms. european atlantic security is a myth it must become reality the start words of russian president dmitry medvedev speaking in moscow also warned that nature should not move in the past the russian leaders said to the threats of foreign military intervention bad manipulation of

public opinion. american soldier accused of a massacre of afghan civilians is to face seventeen counts of murder in the us and it's not about revenge saying it has no faith in american justice some experts say that any trial in the us negative opinion most afghans half of america. has the headlines this hour i'll be back with more in half an hour from now in the meantime back to washington for part two of the. archives it's time for show and tell on tonight's program so road this week we spoke about the mainstream media how to give preferential treatment to certain candidates maybe like santorum and romney are big in our own heart so we want to know is that because of his current standings in the polls are might it be something else that producers recently sent you to find out what you have to say. on the streets of d.c.

to tell people in the nation's capital what our viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we should keep or delete. as mitt romney continues to win more state primaries in is getting all the media attention we asked our viewers why has ron paul failed to win more contests kyle said ron paul has a strong and 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. it it's true i think that you know ron paul's consistently gets you know five to fifteen percent in each state became really expand that 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 rigidly it's. kind of like your i mean he doesn't really get out there that much rationalism said that story there's just no big conspiracy theory here americans just don't like ron paul do you want to believe it well i mean. the

reason why they don't like him is more to do it. is to a little touch with the mainstream mitt romney's more i guess he's more moderate. but 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 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 let us know on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. on newly released documents show the

department of homeland security closely monitored the occupy wall street movement but also shows that they were concerned about crossing the line and unconstitutional surveillance truthout was the first organization to file a freedom of information act request with us on the matter so the first to get the hundreds of pages of internal documents and we've been given bits of information here and there in the six months since occupy began to be d h s report that was released by wiki leaks after cain extract rizzi mails so we know the feds obviously had an interest but do these documents show us if they ever actually broke the law by late and civil liberties and what about the question of a court unaided occupy crackdown to any our studio in los angeles is jason leopold lead investigative reporter for truth or jason 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 to. there is no question that some officials within the agency steered that what they were doing that some of their actions in terms of monitoring occupy wall street rose to the level of 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 and in fact i want to point out that there's no smoking gun within these documents within these four hundred pages about department of homeland security taking part in a coordinated crackdown of the dismantling of occupy encampments and crackdown on the protests but there is no question that there are 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 to wiki leaks received on the department of homeland security and its role in monitoring street that document is actually referenced in the cash that that i received yesterday and that actually it 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 on authorized 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 authorized 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 are always complying with the law always had respect for civil liberties but i think that more often than not we have to be skeptical of that these days and so it's 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. 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 be 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 and 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 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 many 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 relieve the. question ok we're concerned about civil liberties but then jane let me ask you i don't want to sound tauriel here but then some people look at it and they can tell from these documents that it is getting

a lot of who ever quest on this day in philly could tell that there was a lot of interest a lot of people wanted this uncovered so do you think there's any chance that they were being extra careful. yes it's actually funny that you point that out as a. point of a conversation i had yesterday yes they actually mentioned in these documents that some of the talking to answer they discovered were the subject of a request i filed my three requests are for thirty first. and i think that some of the information that was going back and forth at least from 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 tried to get information from the f.b.i. they're still claiming they don't have any documents with occupy wall street in it but you also tried 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. surveillance within the muslim community do you think that might be more troubling . oh there's no question that the documents and the information that the new york police department in that strong terrorism task force 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 and 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 us 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 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 i was stories grab hold of the country in a way so that so few do because the death of trayvon martin is fundamentally about justice and how it's cold out which is not equally black 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 william. mean it right on this country rocky of. right.

right. good career. good everybody. and protesters joined by new york city councilman the family of trayvon martin and occupiers all march from union square to times square and in both places they are met with the math of police presence something occupy wall streeters are quite familiar with and vocal about their 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 it is the occupy wall street joined a march and solidarity that actually makes sense occupy wall street which started off focused on the lack of fairness the lack of accountability on wall street in the financial sector that's going to move the aims to fight injustice in all its

forms in this country whether the ariss justice system while police or corrupt washington it's about americans that 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 that many moneyed interests that control both the political and economic system in this country and the fight will continue across the country 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 rallies going to be held freedom plaza home of the washington d.c. chapter of occupy the looks of the million hoodie march is just the beginning. the time for a last break of the evening but coming up he says there simply is no time to pass a stock act that would actually stop the crash site of three children warts and all happy hour gangs of beautiful women strolling the highways in search of male sperm and then word of the story is that obama could formally endorse a marriage i this summer.

with the end of the core war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero love something that might be going off by mistake special it sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert shifts the focus of the victims could use it. all as an attribute but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't make up nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal

today. says. please. please. just say. it's. just simply. c. c. s i and please don't use it in storage here because it's more going to

local and now it's pulling wire. law against. the. trigger still. makes your skin. color. we'll. take a break. right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to senate majority leader harry reid for helping house republicans water down the stock act let me give you some background here right the stock act or the stock trading on

congressional knowledge act this is first 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 is what applied securities regulations to congress that would have forced political intelligence to disclose their activities and a lot of people out there thought that this didn't was already illegal but thanks to a lack of robust to sherry agreements and better regulation it was not so congress people in hedge funds and therefore gleefully profit off profited off of insider info in the shadows almost americans are made to believe fully unaware and certainly so many saw a spate of news stories coming out about it we spoke about it here on the show and the november of last year the issue shot to prominence after a sixty minutes feature on p.b.s. shed light on the problem and ignited

a fire storm on capitol hill let's talk and it was originally drafted by representative louise slaughter a new york democrat and reintroduced in march by ten wall. it's 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 baucus moved to markup this bill he stuck by wall street darling virginia republican house majority leader eric cantor move it sparked a lot of outrage among republicans who were 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. the insider trading by members of congress i will sign it tomorrow. 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 typical 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 lobbyists have to do the fear of merely the build merely propose to study the issue that's washington talk for let it die just so you guys know but twitter star i were republicans that are there charles grassley introduced the registration amendment that would have allowed regulators to catch private sector actors and trade on this insider information harvested from congress and that amendment actually caused 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 the grassley of them and another key of admin which would have strengthened anti-corruption laws and then he put that bill and suspension which meant they couldn't be amended by anybody in the house so all of this this long story does 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 instead he took up cantor's version arguing

at the conference committee simply would have taken too much time but if you decide to follow the money another motive for reid's moves apparently he's a massive beneficiary of lobbying firms and wall street largest and according to open secrets dot org between two thousand and seven twenty twelve securities and investment firms and lobbying firms were his second and third or third largest donors both industries are king of political intelligence so we just can't help but question it reads claim at the conference committee would take in too much time 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 this is the editor of think progress dot org thanks for joining me guys thanks. i mean so we just have those tools i have

a lot of corruption stuff in it and you see everything is a watered down and then a lot of you know i guess that we have we just know the thing these things go on but you don't necessarily expect lobbyist to be so blatant about it or to brag about it but public report put out this nice little video of lobbyists at a conference basically bragging about how they got somebody reelected and how it's going to help them take a listen. well we. will . sorry. i mean like i said you know what it's like really going to a conference on the seas do people know that stuff is going to happen get on you tube though like this is i mean we're in the age of i don't know majority it's going to be we're going to know that you said those things i guess through the

question i for one was shocked totally shocked that spencer baucus the guy convicted or not convicted but imply than an insider trading case that sixty minutes reported on and he was bent over backwards for the banks is also bending over backwards for the obvious i mean. it's like the just good thing from yesterday to the gaffe was that he told the truth you know so they just have to realize that this in egypt 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 if it's a pretty serious story here's a here's a local news clip it all starts with where you. hear 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 greatest he criticizes everything from president obama's health care plan to his apology for the koran burning. now we also did was he posted comments think 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 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 will defend the constitution will not follow a lawful orders and if 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 believe you have appeared to and the supreme court is a puppet a lot of times and even things you know this controversy with the guy in afghanistan there's if you go to a psychiatrist in the military you give up your right to confidentiality that you

would normally expect so 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 exactly i mean just you know it's time for you to leave and if you really want to be an activist there's no room for activism in the military in our way that it works that way is that if the military is going to function and there has to be the sense of discipline yes out of order and it's the people who are actually fighting these wars and seeing some of the things that i would agree are unlawful actions and aren't allowed to you know speak out against it but it's it's a very you see that you know you've seen that like what history like so many of the biggest vietnam 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 and you're you know that's that's what you signed up for honestly afterwards you can say whatever it is not during all right let's move

on to another another issue out there actually this makes me very happy. you know we've heard about president obama any american leader i guess you could face about people's rights all over the world. i still hope. but the push if the worst thing a transformation not only will it into our lives but woven into 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 going up in our fifty fifty before the election really i believe honestly i kind of feel the same like it's not going to feel it out there

like fifty fifty he might actually say that he and i have equal right unless there's a careful reading to see if people are sort of happy the media are going to do that before the election season but there's no i believe in missouri yeah i love the wording on that it's like clear it sounds like a lawyer wrote it it's so far and it's so careful yeah exactly i mean because he gets it from both sides of this obviously there's like a lot of gay men and women who voted for obama and he's been good on. things but this is obviously the most important issue so i would. come out so i mean i will i would love to see you know if there were like should this be a glimmer of hope but then i mean how much can you really believe any of these statements and it may be a good thing if it's if you have everything but i mean you know quote there ok if you're. going to play the clip i was going to give you the statistic basically twenty one percent of americans said that they would give up sex for one year just to keep access to the internet who are these people who are these people i would

love to be i mean where you put a big deal i'm one of those people and i'm telling you right because if i get are you do you buddy how does your girlfriend feel don't. get no personal. 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 that you know not interested in your neck goes out all the time you can have a really bad. i think bill i mean you know i get i mean i pray god does not tie my internet doesn't work in my own apartment but i were not the worst apparently fifty six percent of people in japan said that they would give up sex for the. i don't know who is reading some of the new series coming out of that are going to wrap it up but thanks for joining me tonight all right that's a pretty nice show thanks for tuning in and makes you come back tomorrow politico's dave cat needs to be joining us for happy hour and in the meantime go forget to become a fan of be on the show on facebook for get some twitter if there's anything you

ever miss it's all you tube dot com slash the lower show and coming up next is the . i'm.

not.