safely get ready to give them their freedom. to live here would like a little. luck and they alone a fellow you know get the real headlines if none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back even. though. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's you some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

little. leg. all right guys it's time for tonight's tool time warner and tonight it's going to g.o.p. senator rand paul and yeah i know earlier this week we commend him for glossing a vote on iran sanctions because he wanted to put in an amendment that would state that there have to be congressional approval for any military action on iran that

was good but this next issue with a entirely different ball game yesterday forty three senate republicans and four democrats protected twenty four billion dollars in tax breaks for oil companies and earlier this week during discussions about the tax breaks rampaul decided to go to bat for big oil if an industry is successful and creates an on point two million jobs instead of punishing them you should walk through encourage though i would think you would want to search your companies what obstacles are there to making more money and hiring more people instead they say no we must. that's where i ran this is all about punishing the companies that are doing well how do you figure it out i mean i'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the five biggest oil companies. phillips exxon mobil and royal dutch shell made record profits of one hundred seven thirty seven billion dollars and many of those companies pay

a lower tax rate than the average american and in two thousand and nine exxon actually paid zero taxes even though they made over forty five billion dollars in profits. not to mention threes point out some of the problems with paul's logic here the tax breaks that the oil industry enjoys our corporate welfare so by asking them to actually pay their fair share of taxes instead of getting to use loopholes that amount to welfare something that someone of paul's ideology normally would be opposed to well that's not punishment it's bringing things back to where they're supposed to be but now a big part of paul's argument is that we shouldn't be penalizing the job creators. your company employs nine point two million people we don't need to heap punishment on them we need to give them encourage men to employ more people. fortunately for paul the oil companies don't exactly employed nine point two million people the entire industry including minimum wage workers only adds up to

two point two million jobs nine point he was a huge expansion that includes ripple effects which are not truly part of the industry a look and it's not just the fact that paul is wrong about he also fails to mention that between two thousand and five and twenty ten p.p. chevron shell and exxon together let eleven thousand two hundred employees go so you think that was a tough time for the oil industry turns out that it was that during that same time period they made five hundred forty six billion dollars in profit per member according to rand paul they're just job creators and they should be encouraged but that leaves me wondering just how much encouragement and profits would it take for the oil industry to actually be the job graters the politicians they are now since they obviously are using the money they make off the pump to hire new employees or even retain existing ones might be asking yourself what are they doing with all that money we often hear of the oil companies need these tax breaks so they can develop new oil deposits so we have more oil supplies leading to lower gas prices

on recent years only ten percent of big oil producers profits have gone towards exploration and in two thousand and eleven u.s. dependence on foreign oil hit its lowest level in sixteen years as u.s. oil production reached its highest level it eight years and guess why gas prices continue to rise at the same time the companies raked in record profits. i thought that according to this logic if we had more oil that led to lower gas prices and oil because they meant to say bigger profits so what do they actually use that profit for. so much as to buy our government of course just last year big oil spent one hundred and forty six million dollars lobbying congress on top of that they shelled out eighteen million dollars in campaign contributions ninety percent of which went to republican candidates so it really shouldn't have a surprise that there are more than a few people in congress that will go to bat for big oil any day any time to repay those debts or they might buy themselves funding fun list during their next campaign now despite all those facts part inside and turn out the crazy just

a notch attacking obama for giving federal loans to his contributors while the president talks about people not paying their fair share he's actually giving more than their fair share to his for i don't think the government should be used as a loan agency to give money to your contributors are getting there on here everybody in the capital plays the you scratch my back all scratch yours game we call them out for it all the time both sides have their friends of their cutting deals for and it's a big problem but those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones turns out that paul's received over one hundred and six thousand dollars in campaign contributions from oil companies so for being a complete shill for the oil industry painting the oil industry is just job creators and making my glowingly hypocritical statements about handouts from campaign contributors for all that rand paul is tonight's full time winner. well a federal court ruled this wednesday that david house will after all have his day

in court despite the government's attempts to get the case dismissed and we brought you this story before david house an mit researcher a co-founder of the bradley manning support network was stopped at the border chicago o'hare airport in two thousand and ten when returning from a trip to mexico u.s. customs agents detained house confiscated his laptop his thumb drive and digital camera and then held onto that equipment for forty nine days at the airport house says that he was detained and questioned for over ninety minutes about his relationship with bradley manning his work on the support network and any association with wiki leaks now a government is by law allowed to search travelers without a warrant under the border search exemption house argues that is first and fourth amendment rights were violated because this was politically motivated and u.s. district judge denise casper has agreed that this lawsuit can go on right although the agency may not need to have any particular lie suspicion for the initial search and seizure of the border for the purpose of the fourth amendment analysis it does

not necessarily follow that the agents as is alleged in the complaint may seize personal electronic devices containing expressive materials target someone for their political association and seize his electronic devices and refuse to review the information pertinent to that association and its members and supporters simply because the initial search occurred at the border so it's one big three but what are the next steps joining me to discuss it is david house founding member of the bradley manning support network so david thanks for joining us tonight it's not a victory yet entirely but i mean do we see this is a positive sign if you actually can go on and bring your lawsuit against the government. who caused you some of the ruling was a little surprised. on your new poll this latest approaching loss your own production were being guarded by the people and bolts and you were asked to actually have. the federal judge say hey wait you know you can't just see someone's

material border because you don't like their politics that was really refreshing and that really enjoyed myself that a lot of supporters in the area with a lot of confidence so it's likely color second wind and i really hope you feel your lawsuit is to go ahead and courts and i really hope we can we can the government's border search exemption at the border it would be excellent if the government did not have the right to see some of the poppet all the border but if we can we get enough that you can have it be safe in your political beliefs well but something innocuous well i'm just curious here what exactly was the government's legal reasoning for why they seemed to just be thrown out. the very question of the actually claim that i wrote a federal law by refusing to give my password to my encrypted computer now let's take a step back and look at what we're actually talking about here we have those up how computer that is killing through the border and on that computer or is information about after this network that raises money for bradley manning the fuse to blow or

completely legal but this computer contains donor information they contained information about who was given money to us about who was on our mailing list and it contains all the internal strategy of the organization we believe that our personal association has been reached because by seeing that computer the government now has access to an encrypted portions of the hard drive which may have had the commission on it and they can share this information with other agencies so this is a big problem the government should not be able to target activists networks and say hey we have all their stuff now we know what they're doing now we can see what we're trying to get done and we believe that's actually what happened here the government does it because i did not provide my password however i was violating this rule that says i must help the t.s.a. they open a new container that last or something of this sort so they're trying to argue that it a was off topic shooter possible second encrypted whatever is essentially analogous to the last container of course but otherwise and everyone an access organization

from a country be they left wing or right wing out this organization should definitely feel. now what about those people that you know are going to part of bradley manning part network that are drones that are your donors. you know the people whose information you had inside of your laptop here find out at the department of homeland security so has all that information that you did a thing deleted that destroyed it or what we simply don't know at this point we hope that they do not have information now and we hope to do is have a targeted however we can't really be sure until the discovery phase of the lawsuit whether or not that's true that we. possible the u.s. government has taken this information and has shared it with. agencies across the country and used it to issue a crackdown we have seen on many supporters in the last year and a half but in sweden if you say we just don't know that hopefully will be able to figure out exactly what agencies have this information and what they used for it if

we could actually show that the u.s. government broke their own law will by using this target activists we have a very big federal case on our hands about trying to stop the world back some of the oppressive tactics you seen from the above the nutrition the last four years but realistically what do you know the lawyers over at a c l u tell you because i know that you want to say that you know you want this to pertain to political activism and that kind of speech but what are the chances of getting this for all that far there because we see you know this is part of searches happen all the time and it's not just activists they happen and journalists right and then journalists will have to disclose their information which could be sensitive which could have sources information on them. well the she'll use trying to stay very positive and i agree with this top i think that if we can really show that the worship exception has been used improperly by the u.s. government that the weak in their ability to frame and work actually have such a you know however this is

a little while afterwards at this point we just don't know all we can do is try to weaken this exception as much as possible and try to restore a bit of dignity to america and the border so you see all you like me we're optimistic cautiously optimistic and we're hoping that we can achieve some real police will change his country using this ruling but time will tell you know i don't know we hope that the judges in the future the reason why those just ask your bosses right now and switch to another case which is the case against bradley manning i'm just curious what you think you know what we've seen in these in these hearings in these proceedings so far leading up to that we've obviously seen the defense trying to get the case thrown out we know the government has not been willing to hand over certain information and they don't want to make public certain internal assessments made by intelligence agencies as to whether or not there was actually any national security damage so just from observing the way that it's been going so far you know what's your take on how this is going to pan out. well it's very hard to say and one reason it's hard to say is because bradley manning's trial

is essentially flows there are very large close workings of it at the american people and journalists are actually an able to get insight into how of what you have here is a man who is alleged to have leaked documents for the purpose of helping americans understand the inner workings of an increasingly secretive government and you have that secretive government now the nineteen the american public an insight into his trial and it's actually closing the doors of the trial itself. i think this is really heinous and i think that without actually having eyes and ears in the courtroom that are going through government censors we're not really going to know what's going on in there so i would hope the u.s. government would change its stance and actually start moving towards a more fair and open trial that hasn't happened yet and in fact i don't really know when the trial date so we beat it round so it's very hard to say what may actually happen there david coombs bradley manning's attorney has recently said that the government is now into knowledge giving the defense evidence that may be used to

clear him and his name in the name of national security so here we see the same abuse the same use that was used to protect the n.s.a. wiretaps the in the state secrets act and this kind of attitude government has where people don't deserve to know and separate nation is now being used and maybe use in fact to put really in any behind bars the rest is lie or even worse put it before firing squad simply because the government doesn't want this information out there it's completely ridiculous and i think it's ironic considering the action many allegedly took to open it for a nation whose country i don't thank you for joining us and i am we will be following both cases here on our staff a lot it's always a pleasure. i are taking a break right. now you know sometimes you see a story. is if you understand it and then something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is all. part of the big.

mystery. up in the lower so you'll get a real headline not. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers from what actually matters to those

viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back even. harder is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. to tonight's fireside.

this week all eyes have been on the supreme court and the oral arguments that were given pertaining to the health care law the fordable care act so now the waiting begins for what the justices will decide so today while we wait for that like to highlight another case that's coming up on april twenty fifth so the court is going to hear arguments to decide the fate of what was just the first in a spate of strict immigration laws to sweep states across the nation arizona's seventy now lower courts and blocked portions of this bill perhaps most importantly the papers please a provision that allows police to check the immigration status of anybody they suspect of being in the country illegally a provision that very widely opens up the door for discrimination based on how somebody looks at a thing it's the supreme. court is going to be deciding if the federal government is right in saying that immigration law as a whole is their domain and not that of the states and so this is where we really have to look at the past to see why current warnings make sense it's been nearly

seventy years since the supreme court ruled that the constitution doesn't allow for the states to set their own immigration policy and the courts reasoning was that not only was it unconstitutional but it could also have serious consequences on foreign policy the court explained experiences shell that countries have gone to war over wrongs in the treatment of their citizens in other nations and so looking as beat and seventy the numerous other immigration laws that have been passed across the u.s. in the last few years you can see how the logic still applies and in fact a bipartisan group of former officials have filed an amicus brief with the supreme court this week warning them about the possible repercussions of allowing as b. ten seventy to stamp saying that arizona's actions risk of embroiling the national government in disputes not of its making how this group includes former secretary of state madeleine albright former defense secretary william cohen and former deputy secretary of state john negroponte and in fact instead of only providing warnings these officials actually remind the supreme court that we've already seen consequences to this law and month after as the ten seventy has passed the mexican

president expressed his concern in a speech to the u.s. congress in june of two thousand and ten six mexican governors canceled their trips to phoenix for an annual conference with u.s. and mexican governors on border issues public opinion polls in mexico changed immediately unfavorable public attitudes towards the u.s. jumping from twenty seven to forty eight percent after this law was passed el salvador and nights ago and they should travel warnings to their citizens coming to the u.s. president and parliaments in bolivia brazil colombia ecuador el salvador guatemala honduras and nicaragua have all issued statements criticizing this law doesn't say that states should set their policies. according to how other countries will view them no not at all and when there are policies that might affect the foreign policy there for the security of the united states as a whole one state shouldn't be allowed to pass a law that affects us all so that's just something for you to think about ponder as

this case heads for the supreme. guide time for a happy hour and joining me tonight is the lovely r.t. correspondent christine for south and anthony randolph rector of economic research for the reason foundation here just as lovely anthony's father was let out of. the lovely. seeing the show yesterday so she's lovely earth i guess i would write great for its origin. but you know he's not going to host the show anymore turns out that he and we just found this out like an hour before the show tonight is out at current t.v. has terminated their relationship with them or paid terminated with him you know and apparently he's going to be replaced by viewpoints with eliot spitzer and ok so basically this is i'll give you the two different statements here current said

current was also founded on the values of respect openness cli jalebi and loyalty to our viewers unfortunately these viewers are no longer reflected in our relationship with keith olbermann and we have and that it over midway on this tweeting rampager is a whole long thing but one of the first because these are talking is i'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of current t.v. editorially countdown had never been better. i don't know you know it's really hard because you hear especially in this industry and i'm sure you've heard rumors about keith olbermann and working with key people right now it's difficult and there's talk about you felt like a monster is under the ratings i mean this is a guy who had a successful show we had a successful show on him if he had a successful show on e.s.p.n. . that's also on currency was one of the first major shows that anyone knew about on credit. so i guess is not surprising that there were personnel issues i guess you could say but it is surprising that they're going to put another failed show another failed so homes are places. and i'm going to say i thought. was great as

the governor of new york i thought you know when you think about people who actually stood face to face against wall street trying to do stuff about wall street criminality this is a person who did. his t.v. listings skills not so much and so i'm pretty surprised about this decision what do you think anthony i think it's funny that this conversation is actually happening in happy hours all around d.c. right now because this is a bizarre year for what i've read it sounds like it was just fed up with his antics but i'm sure editorially was but a lot of older his antics were i mean this is not the first news we've heard of him just being upset with technical failures a car and basically just not having the money to have the studio in the perceived that he wanted it and i simply believe the money to you know a ten million dollars i think that's what all your money where you actually called i mean the salary none of it went to my show i just really you know it's interesting not shocking as he's had so many problems everywhere he goes you go no

i see now where will he go next with next democratic governor that's going to be hosting a show i guarantee you that is another guy in michigan in new york you know he seems to me personally all right let's take a look at this ad so obviously this hot mike moment between presidents obama and the of was a big thing to talk about this week now american crossroads has put out this james bond like trail take a look. your mission is simple mr obama stood next to. civility to fence and fundamentally comes. to me to be trans the information. stop. this president flexible treatment sponsored transfer. a lot of your. you love it you think it's larry i i love any opportunity to see it without a shirt on that's just my. personal personal take on this i mean i love bill they'd

like to write melayu part of the thing about for like an hour star of the president flexible i mean that was cute and funny but if you watch the ad in its entirety it's pretty scary it kind of goes along with the whole myth that mitt romney's been trying to perpetuate this week that russia is our number one enemy that it looks like communist russia there from the video that they should here's the facts and any second term president has more flexibility to do what they want anyone that's trying to turn this into president obama is going to totally turn against everything he says you know what any president has the same ability just a lot of like we're a cold war like the air mongering already going on and they're saying that russia is the number one foe but you know ok my question to you guys too because we've seen a lot of these political ads that people have thought were offensive right especially certain ones they think that these are really offensive to chinese what is this one's that's the offensive to russia i should hope i think that you know russian

should embrace that they are the geo political foe of the united states and james or a litter of britain i guess it was james bond movies the purpose of got out is to fear monger and make people scared that president obama is socialist crazy or think that they were like that is a little an action movie you know this or you like you realize it so there's very we're not really here it's like you're saying it's like there's nobody out. there that's the didn't hate obama already it's like oh we'll see now we know what he's going to do well that's what your thought is going to do and we all know that every second term president always changes you know course in some direction they don't have to act like they're running for another term it's not there's no one rule for your last story which is clearly going to be the big story of the evening take a look. the largest jackpot ever of lotteries has folks who've never bought a ticket before now thinking number is the jackpot is now six hundred forty million dollars of course the odds of winning are extremely long winded in one hundred

seventy six million. i would you know anybody that isn't at least trying in some way you can even get in on the office pool or you know i don't i don't buy lottery tickets i never buy lottery tickets on the regular but when there's something that is this big. so you're going to feel terrible when the when the r.t. office pool will actually be the only one working here to be the moderator be the only one left behind that. we will all be part of the lawsuit will you invite me to parties when you guys. don't know. christine. it's nice that we can all have fun with never having this much money. if they. are going to record over things we're doing tonight but there are nights thanksgiving in adelaide for the come back on monday president is going to be on to talk about his lawsuit against president obama and secretary of defense leon panetta challenging the legality of the national defense authorization act and meantime don't forget become

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