and you can see the other freedom. fighters would like. the above and they alone are still there the real headline is that 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 in t.v. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then he lives something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture .

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

was good but this next issue really an entirely different ball game so 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 rand paul decided to go to bat for big oil if an industry is successful and creates nonpoint two million jobs instead of punishing them you should want to encourage though i would think you would want to say to 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 b.p. chevron conoco 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 that in two thousand and nine exxon

actually paid zero taxes even though they made over forty five billion dollars in profits very nice not to mention three spun out of the problems of policy logic here the tax breaks of the oil industry enjoys our corporate welfare so by asking them to actually pay their fair share of taxes and said again 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. the oral company employs nine point two million people we don't need to heat punishment on them we need to give them a new urge meant to employ more people. fortunately for paul the oil companies don't exactly employ a nine point two million people the entire industry including minimum wage workers only adds up to two point two million jobs nine point she was

a huge expansion that includes ripple effects which are not truly part of the industry looks 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 it was a tough time for the oil industry turns out that it wasn't there enough same time period they made five hundred forty six billion dollars in profit remember gordon 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 creators the politicians they are now since they obviously aren't using the money they make off at the pump to hire new employees or even retain existing ones may be asking yourself what are they doing with all that money well 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 recent years only ten percent of the big five 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 years and guess what gas prices continue to rise above the same time the company's raked in record profits kind i thought that according to this logic if we had more oil that led to lower gas prices and well because they meant to say bigger profits so when they actually use that profit for. from want 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 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 gotta repay those debts or they might find themselves funding one list during their next campaign now despite all those facts apart inside to 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 right and wrong we're on here everybody in the capitol plays the you scratch my back i'll scratch yours game we call them out for it all the time both sides have their friends and they're cutting deals for and it's a big problem but those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones turns up at 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 paving the oil industry is just job creators and making my glowingly hypocritical statements about handouts for campaign contributors for all that rand paul is tonight's told time when. 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 grabbing 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 weekly now while the government is by law allowed to search travelers without a warrant under the border search exemption house argues that his first and fourth amendment rights were violated because this was politically motivated and u.s. district judge in these casper has agreed that this lawsuit can go on right although the agents may not need to have any particular lie suspicion for the initial search and seizure at 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. of the ruling was a little surprised oh well i've been told this over me like it's a crushing it was your own people and the support that were being argued by the people in boston were asked to actually have. the federal judge say hey wait you know you can't just be someone's material supporter because you don't like their

politics that was really refreshing and that really enjoyed myself but a lot of supporters in the area with one confidence so it's likely color second win and i really hope you feel your lawsuit to go ahead works and i really hope we can we see in 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 well but also border but if we can weaken the fact that you can't have it be safe in your beliefs well that's something i'm happy with but i'm just curious here what exactly was the government's legal reasoning for why they thought that very case consistent 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 no let's take a step back and look at what we're actually talking about here we have those off the computer that is going through the border and all my computer information about after this network that raises money for bradley manning the fuse will be. completely legal but this computer if you build or information contained

information about who has given money to us about who was on our mailing list and it contains only internal strategy of the organization we believe that our first minute of sushi sure has been reached because by saying that computer the government now had access to an encrypted portions of the hard drive which may have had a different nation on it and they don't share this information with other agencies and 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 and we're trying to get done and we believe that's actually what happened here the government does that because i did not provide my password however i was violating this from a rule that says i must help it t.s.a. opening the container the last or something of the sort so they're trying to argue that a walk up top and cuter child protective encrypted whatever is essentially analogous to a lock container of course but otherwise it's and everyone and ask if we're going to beijing from

a country be they left wing or right wing on this organizations should definitely feel. now what about those people that you know that are part of bradley manning support network that are drones that are your donors you know the people whose information you had inside of your laptop again or find out at the time i promise i'm hearing it so has all that information that you did if they deleted it destroyed it or what we simply don't know at this point we hope that they do not have that information now that we hope that they have a target however we can't really be sure until the discovery phase of the lawsuit whether or not that's true now. possible that u.s. government has taken this information it has shared it with. across the country and used it to initiate the crackdown we've seen on many supporters in the last year and a half. but in so we just don't know that hopefully will be able to figure out exactly what agencies how does information and what they used for it and if we could actually show that the u.s.

government broke their own law all by using this hard act this we have a very big federal case on our hands about trying to stop the roll back some of the oppressive tactics we've seen from the bottom of the church and the last four years realistically what do you know the lawyers over at the 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 backfired because we see you know this these border searches happen all the time and it's not just sad to say happen to journalists who write and then journalists will have to disclose their information which could be sensitive which could have sources information on them. well these he'll use trying to stay very positive and. i think that if we can really show that you worship exception has been used improperly by the u.s. government that mean weak in their ability to claim in court they actually did have such a you know however this is a little a lot of factors at this point we just don't know what we can do is try so we can

this except as much as possible and try to restore a bit of dignity to america at the border so these feel you like me were optimistic cautiously optimistic and were hoping that we could achieve some real political change in this country using this ruling but time will tell and i don't know we hope that judges in the future ours and white does judge past boston right now and switch to another case much as 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 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 foes

there are very large close persons of it that the american people and journalists are actually unable to get insight into you have you have yours and then who is alleged to have leaks documents for the purpose of helping americans understand the inner workings of an increasingly secret government and you have that secretive government now the naing the american public and insight into his trial and that's actually closing the doors of the trial itself. i think that this is really heinous and i think that without actually having eyes and ears in the courtroom that aren't going to government censors we're not really we're you know what's going on and 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're going to be getting shipped around so it's very hard to say what may actually happen david coombs bradley manning's attorney has recently said that the government is now denying giving the defense evidence that may be used to clear manning's name and 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 state secrets act then this kind of attitude government has where people don't deserve to know the separation is now being used and they need to use in fact to probably manning behind the rest of his life or even worse put it before firing squad simply because the government doesn't want that mission out there it's completely ridiculous and i think it's ironic considering the action bending allegedly took to help open information his country i think a lot thank you for joining us and i am going to a lobby following both cases here on our staff a lot of those of us. you

know the real headline. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters are those. people just don't watch t.v.

if they want news they. were trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back it. is the state. channel it's kind of like. today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to. us. to tonight's fireside right. 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 mike 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 s.b. ten seventy now lower courts have blocked portions of this bill perhaps most importantly the papers please that provision that would allow 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 thing is and the supreme court is going to be deciding if the federal government is right and saying the 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 by another nation 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 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 and seventy to stand saying that arizona's actions risk of abroad. the national government disputes not of its making now this group includes former secretary of state madeline 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 a month after as the ten seventy was 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 as 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 mexico have issued travel warnings to their citizens coming to the u.s. presidents and parliaments in bolivia brazil colombia ecuador el salvador guatemala honduras and nicaragua have all issued statements criticizing this law this isn't to say that states should set their policies according to how other countries will view them no not at all but 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 to ponder as this case heads to the supreme court.

hi guys time for a happy hour and joining me tonight is the lovely r.t. correspondent christine present now and after he ran down the rector of economic research for the reason foundation you're just as lovely and. lovely day. yesterday so she's a lovely earth again i grant her it's no argument. but you know he's not going to host the show. anymore turns out they were made and we just found this out like an hour before the show tonight is out that current t.v. terminated their relationship with them or they've terminated it with him. and apparently he's going to be replaced by viewpoints with eliot spitzer and ok so basically this is all give you the two different statements here current said current was also founded on the values of respect openness collegiality 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 rampage was a whole long thing but one of the first because he's 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 when 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 and i think he had a successful show on e.s.p.n. and as i said that's what i encourage he was one of the first major shows that anyone knew about on current. so i guess it's 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 show homes replace your life and i'm going to say i thought spitzer 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 but do you think anthony i think it's fun that this conversation is actually happening at happy hours all around d.c. right now because this is a very yeah i mean from what i've read it sounds like her it was just fed up with his antics like i'm sure editorial it was but a lot of all his answers were this is not the first news be furtive him just being upset with technical failures a big. just not having the money to have the studio when the person she had wanted it and i said make steve the money to pay and you know a ten million dollar i think i have all your money right usually it's called i mean my salary none of it went to my you know i definitely you know it's interesting not shocking as he's had so many problems everywhere he goes there you go no i see now

where will he go next and next democratic governor that's going to be hosting a show exactly how they're going to shoot it in new york you know easy for me personally all right let's take a look at this ad so obviously this moment between presidents obama and was a big thing to talk about this we know american crossroads has put out this james bond like trail it's like a book. your mission is simple destroy a. section. of civility we cannot defend sense and fundamentally it's cool to me to be real trends from nation. stop. this president flexible treatment structured trends. on your point. you want it you think it's hilarious i i love it any opportunity without a shirt on but this is my. personal personal take on this i mean i love the i'd

like to write melayu part of the thing about for like an hour sorry the president flexible i mean that was cute and funny but if you watch the out 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 from the video that they should here's the facts i mean 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 is there a lot of like we're a cold war. air mongering right going on and then there romney 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 got were offensive right especially certain ones they think that these are really offensive to chinese. history 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 bond or a little or of britain i guess it's james bond movies if the purpose of that out is to fear monger and make people scared that president obama is socialist crazy or think of it like that it's a little an action really goes where you like you realize it so there's certainly not a race here it's like you're saying it's like there's nobody out there that's all that didn't hate obama already that's like oh you'll see now and 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 who for your last story which is clearly going to be the big story of the evening take a look at. these larger jackpot ever lotteries has folks who've never bought it taken before now picking numbers the jackpot is now six hundred forty million dollars of course the odds of winning are extremely long winded in one hundred seventy six now we have.

i would you know anybody that isn't at least trying it isn't in some way you don't even get in on the office pool or the i don't know 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 the no one archie office pool will ever get only one working here to buy really well i don't know where we would all be parking lot oh you invite me to a yacht parties when you guys. are all. christie and. it's nice that we could all have fun with never having this much money yeah it's nice to dream isn't it our guys are kind of out of a thanks for joining me tonight that's it for night so thanks for joining ad makes for the comeback on monday president is going to be on to talk about his lawsuit against president obama and secretary of defense leon panetta challenging the legalities of the national defense authorization act and meantime don't forget think i'm a fan of the

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