hello very good evening from moscow it's ten thirty pm here kevin zero in these are our top stories tonight russian businessman vick to boost the weight sentencing in the u.s. to be convicted of bombing terrorists and conspiring to kill americans he could get life behind bars but insists he's innocent and that his case is fabricated more of that in the coming hours also the u.n. security council calling on the syrian regime to make the april tenth deadline to pull by troops with a full cease fire on both sides in the forty eight hours which followed. and the sky high scandal for rupert murdoch because his british t.v.

news network admits allowing journalists to hack private e-mail. how about the piece on all those stories in a half an hour's time next though back to lower in washington d.c. . hi guys it's time for you said i read it all right take time to respond to my brilliance engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when you've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond if you are that watched our interview with chris hedges about the n.b.a. and the lack of mainstream media coverage surrounding it groups one nine hundred seventy two comments on you tube and said the reason the media won't cover it is because obama is there and they don't want him to look bad if bush were president you can guarantee the media would cover the story and i've got a feeling that kind of true not a silly but obama is the entire media's guy i don't believe that but if bush had

been the one across the and there would have been a much stronger response especially from the channels out there like and as n.b.c. parts of the other hand we know were you know they're into that kind of thing so i don't find all that shocking but i for the first point it goes for a lot of the things that obama's done in this presidency in the shadow wars the assassination of american citizens all of which the more left leaning media has been largely mute to do the same thing of happening or bush i really don't think so i think of the some sort of collective hopefulness of the media that the obama administration really has our best interests at heart they say they won't detain americans ok the military says don't talk about the shadow words or for your own good ok now the reality is that what is good for americans is knowing what the government is doing in the name of their safety next i want to respond to a viewer who tweeted out this so component said at the lower show president obama also has a new ad calling mitt romney a big oil crony while the he is giving more to obama than anyone so now first me to

show you guys the ad that's being referred to here. and i approve this message under president domestic oil production. so why is big oil attacking because he's fighting to. their tax breaks he's raising money. believe. it all these fights. with be good for the tax breaks attacking higher mileage standards and renewables. remember who paid for what they wore. and the numbers that our viewer here is referring to are from twenty ten when he has these he did give more money to obama than any other candidate obama received a total of seventy seven thousand and fifty one dollars from b.p. during his time in the senate and while running for president as president not so much b.p. actually stopped giving donations altogether for nine months bill and it only recently come out of hibernation and started going politicians are none of that

money so far seems to be going to obama as of late twenty eleven b.p. has given tens of thousands of dollars to both republican and democratic congress members but none to obama now whether or not that continues throughout the campaign and garments to be seen and finally three six zero four tweeted this at the low to show dude change your profile picture start everyone from whining about it anymore make sure it has a lot of hair this time we know we know guys we're working on it we've already changed our facebook picture on the twitter picture will be uploaded by the end of the week i promise so that that my rantings and i have power back with more next week. well today is the day you know the two hundred marines arrived in australia and the first of what will be twenty five hundred american troops deployed under it's part of an agreement the president obama and also brilliant prime minister julia gillard dillard signed last november now for now we hear that the marines will be engaging in training exercises and are going to be around for humanitarian

help but a consensus around the world is that clearly this is part of a strategic shift of the us military to focus more on china and the asia pacific region and the australians seem more willing to admit it when we discuss it is robert farley sr professor at the university of kentucky and blogger at lawyer guns and money robert thanks so much for joining us tonight and their starters do you know more about the timeline here like i said today we have about two hundred marines that arrived. at the end of the day they're supposed to be twenty five hundred do we know when they're supposed to get there. i think for me over the course of the next few months i'm not sure of the exact timeline either but this course is that in the works for several months now since president obama's visit to australia and its future canberra and so forth and i think you're right that the australians seem very excited about it and talking about it in different terms than the americans are talking about it well yeah let's give let's give the viewers an example right so first we have australian defense minister minister stephen smith

and he said we see this very much as responding and reflecting the fact of the world is moving into our parts of the world the world is moving to asia pacific and the indian ocean we need to respond to that. then we have the u.s. ambassador to australia jeffrey place who said there's this kind of sexy fun narrative that hear from pundits and others trying to suggest this is about china but it's not so i was so that's kind of interesting right why do you think that's going on we have the us trying to downplay it and then australia and i guess they're just enjoying the time you know in the limelight or saying you know are important everyone's coming this way well i think that they're trying to ensure that the united states makes as much of a commitment to australia to transfer to australian security has been treated so that i think that they are talking about that it's. in sort of most grandiose terms because when they talk about grandiose terms radically it will commit us to do things that is in their favor but i mean let's be frank it's about china i mean you know it's mostly about china it's also about the tremendous amount of real truth

that goes through the area of maritime truth that goes through the area the increasing importance of india and indonesia and so forth but the military aspects of it are mostly about china what about this thing too that we heard from the prime minister this week when she said that the us and australia are currently in discussions for having drones on australian soil as well. i think it's really interesting. i mean i hadn't you know exactly what i do think it is very interesting in terms of how those drones would play out in a. in a sort of militarized scenario between china and the united states i mean everybody expects the drones are going to play a large role and that means exactly sure where they're going to be based drones are going of australia would probably manage anti-piracy campaigns which carry out all kinds of surveillance and the chinese and eventually other actors in the area and so that's pretty interesting they will just be sort of scouring the outback and i

guess it would be all that shocking but in the meantime we don't really know if it's just up for discussion haven't exactly been they decided but you know if you were china how would you response about. one thing china has responded to it by expressing its suspicion and by chastising both the united states and australia for especially militarizing diplomacy in the region and i think this was a reasonable response by china the australians for their part see this as a response to the fact that china was taking what a lot of people in the region thought was a much more assertive and aggressive diplomatic track around two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten and so the australian seem to think or what one of going to suggest that this is in response to show that the chinese are sort of suggesting that this is an escalation by the united states and the united states is regional allies and you want to think that we hear all the time when it comes to military planning. and strategy planning here is that our generals very preparing for

yesterday's war they're never quite in tune with what exactly it is you know that we need to focus on in the future but here he think they're actually doing the opposite or are they really thinking ahead. absolutely i think that they are in the navy and the air force has for a very long time wanted to move away from the focus on the middle east and want to move away from the iraq and afghanistan. under robert gates gates was very clear that the united states had to fight the wars that it was fighting right now before it moved on to the next war but now that we've moved on to secretary of defense panetta and we move mostly out of iraq. any time you want to get into some should leave seems to appear there the navy and air force are very eager to think about what their next conflict might look like they're happy to have the focus back on them about what they can do i thought the navy the air force cited a maybe not so nice the army there but so in that sense as we look at the strategic

shift in actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are most of them have focusing on and then. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict which i don't can also in sort of a lesser included case be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets that are part of this is a command pretty easy to shift over to the middle east a place any kind of crisis and this includes carrier battle groups that include submarines and so forth. that could respond to any sort of crisis in the middle east what i doubt you'll have in the middle east after there's been this kind of withdrawn or some kind of drawdown in afghanistan as you probably won't have large scale deployments of u.s. ground troops in the region but you know instead you'll have air and naval assets that can test between the two theaters if that turns out to be necessary i think

plenty of jets been plenty of steps out there to cover the globe rather thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you for having me. well time for our last break leaving but when we come back that romney presented to be a normal guy he once nightfall sighed and i'll have another happy hour session barely thinking you're drunk is enough to make you think you're sexy and a campaign here to get facebook users the poster asked as steve for the greater good like this every waiting for you after the break.

he'll make. the. director's call to rely. on. our guys this time for tonight's full time award and tonight we're going to get to the g.o.p. presidential front runner mitt romney he celebrated last night's primary win in wisconsin surrounded by fellow g.o.p. ears and of course a spate and aside from thanking voters for choosing him he started throwing some punches at obama here's one of the jabs enough to make you think that years of

flying around in air force one surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you that you're great and you doing a great job it's enough to make you think that you might become a little out of touch. yes he says that obama has been spending too much time on the official presidential plane with his adoring staff and that's led him to be out of touch with voters i mean really i'm just visioning if romney gets the golden ticket to the white house then he'd probably make some pretty big changes over at six hundred pennsylvania avenue if that's how he thinks for starters obviously air force one had to undergo some serious remodelling like he said it just gives the president opportunity to become out of touch with americans so maybe well but then decals on it like don't tread on me hell throw in a few sponsors too perhaps those nascar team voters that he's buddy buddy with or better yet we can scrap the whole plane give him a blimp and as a safety measure well just attach the machine guns to get the job done right and

he'd clearly have the change of the white house mansion as well after all mansions he just screamed disconnect so replace it with a much smaller home with a huge cross an upright yard and a coal burning girl in the white house lawn it's too bad he doesn't drink because he would definitely have space for an ice skater in the backyard but let's get serious here romney of all people is trying to call obama for being out of touch green this is almost too easy but here it goes pot meet kettle. so i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck drives a couple of cadillacs actually ten thousand bucks. ten thousand over the. corporations are people my friend you can raise taxes and of course they are i like being able to fire people who provide services to me doing some renovating of his own tearing down his old house and the way in california to build an eleven

thousand square foot mansion he is installing a car elevator to a four car garage his campaign thinks there's no optics concern here telling the new york times it's quote just a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces. yeah the guy who knows nascar owners has a lower home expanded it for a car elevator and his wife owns a few cadillacs he's the one who really understands real america now come on even you know you can't identify with anybody out there but the one percent and you try to act like you're an everyday guy is still come off it's fake. go for it. and i've never. so romney might officially be unemployed he's still counting twenty one million dollars in two thousand and ten and i'm sure that real americans would

give an arm or a leg for that kind of money but i'd also like to remind made about something else calling out obama for using air force one is ridiculous because guess what that's how every president since the fifty's is traveled not just obama even ronald reagan use the massive plane he was commander in chief and in reality the presidential plane the white house those are all things that mitt romney is working towards that's his goal that's his finish line and those are the things he's been campaigning to get for almost a decade so it's a weeks off and it really wants the job he's going to work a lot harder on getting his stance straight on issues at least that members of his own party on his side but if you want to pick a fight with obama i suggest he digs a little deeper next time there's plenty out there to criticize so for now we will gladly give mitt's tonight's tool time award because his a popular c. and system fund overlook.

our guys time for happy hour joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and alex sites all this is and they're of progress to org thanks for joining me guys like thanks for having me you know sometimes when people drink lots then funny things happen to them they might think that there are more. they might start hitting on people. and the things into this mix of the weird stuff. oh. all right well here's the interesting part is it might not even be the alcohol it does it but just the knowledge or thought that you're drunk there's a new study out there that basically says they did some placebos just thinking people just thinking you're drunk can make people think that they're more

attractive and so people that they actually gave alcohol to put the thought they weren't drinking anything they still had low self-esteem and the people they actually gave to who thought they were drinking alcohol just decided their life. i mean is it really any shock that we're all a lot greener than that i mean we're just all so much of a you know that we want to admit and not only thing holding us back from talking about how fabulous we are is society and their judgment that's why i chose a six pack of deuils right before i came here and that's why you put this not to spoil any show here on the martini that's right these very real martinis here on this to make me feel more trouble than just say i mean sometimes when i go to the met you know are attracted to you if you're a welder and you know mission accomplished i mean i write home after happy hour on this show it's always a lot more awesome because i just exude confidence i guess privilege but you know because you think about the effects of alcohol and everyone talks about how lowers your inhibitions and so it's easy to blame it on the buddhas and then in reality

it's just you can some of the stuff you can't blame on the most try to but if you think about it maybe it's not actually lowering people's inhibitions it's just making them feel like social norms don't matter anymore like here it's not socially normal to talk about how hot you are or how hot you think you are so when that norm is taken away because you're drunk you can talk about it or it's not socially normal hook up with someone you know on a one night stand basis but after you've had a few drinks well then it's totally cool that you can still blame it on the booze whether you're actually drunk or not exactly if you think you are. so you're saying basically there's a lot of closet sluts out there that aren't even getting drunk but are having one night stands and pretending like they were blacked out. ok let's move on to this make story shall we basically a researcher thinks that facebook can help you figure out you know what the chances are that you might get an s.t.d.

and so he envisions an app that could alert you to your risk of catching one based among its prevalence prevalence excuse me amongst your friends so they're saying that if you just if you say you haven't as. t.v. but it will help figure out the statistics of what the chances are you know that your friends probably have it too but we all know this isn't going to hurt because one person in their right mind is like i have a clue do you let me tell everyone i think you put that on your profile which was going to show you that alex we do actually happen to know that you probably are asked to be free because you never have sex because you prefer the internet. and this is a really good flick here so we thought it was so funny last time you were on the show we were talking about this study that some people said they would give up sex for a year that access to the internet and the washington free beacon and. they were really shocked about that i mean you know i was trying to be provocative

a little bit here but really back on the show in line and are now back on the show admitting you lied or am i lying about admitting that i'm lying. so that really what the washington free beacon thinks is you know really worthwhile to write about. let's move on to our next story shall we. explain this the obama administration they haven't been all that nice to some of the federal agencies that are actually trying to implement some of the things that the obama administration has been asking for and so then when the agencies actually start working on it they end up kind of clamping down and basically the reason that they're doing this in political and often because you know maybe they get a little scared that things like fox new design will attack them for. you know there's always a zillion dylan right there is when time was fast and everything was not five and it was soft and everything was low sodium now it seems that this is moved to sugar

so dr london is something we really need to be concerned about that's different than the other cycles or is this sort of a pattern of picking something else that we should watch in our diet. scary scary regulations now we just kind of want to talk about this not necessarily because there's something going on in the news today but let me give you an example in that the f.d.a. two thousand and ten they proposed as part of the health care law to require that movie theaters post calorie counts for pa court so that when people go they can just see the calorie number before they order it and the administration actually thought that this requirement was unnecessary they thought it would probably be lampooned on fox news and so and so they fought over it i don't think of you know it's kind of unfortunate you see the administration backing off on things like this one who isn't really going to hurt that's not the you know the you have a number there you're not forcing anyone to do anything. yeah i mean because of it

though because because there are people like fox news and all of the entire right wing echo chamber that will go nuts i mean they could propose a regulation that says cars shouldn't explode when you drive them and that would be drug killing regulation to crush the auto industry so it's like you know they want to make this concession on this small movie industry thing in order to save the bigger health but it is unfortunate that politics is troubling that senator i just can't agree with you on that because what we're talking about here is you have the f.d.a. whose purpose is to gather information to consult with experts and make decisions based on that and then the white house says oh i'm sorry your decision based on information isn't popular so we're going to strike it down i think that's the epitome of letting politics take over where i mean i think that's actually insane like oh fox news might have a field day with this that means that it's actually not better for americans to now know it's totally positive move but you know part of the problem here too is that i don't even i sorry think that it wouldn't be something that's popular is they just

don't know how to message it and they don't know how to sell it so they let news went out because to me that just seems like a really logical thing. well you know birth control is maybe a more divisive issue around the country calorie counts i don't really think. you know it's sort of i think you know i mean i think calorie counts definitely can be to visit because i can definitely see fox news saying oh nanny state they want to tell us you know what we can and cannot do even though they're not actually doing that they find a fabulous way to spin everything so i don't think that it's that crazy for them to want to keep that in mind i do have i think if you're going to put people in positions to make decisions like this and have these agencies then you have to let them do what they were put there to do yeah the f.d.a. is theoretically an independent agency that's not you know like h.h.s. or any other part of the justice that's part of the administration is technically independent but the white house is going to be the one that's dragged before the court of public opinion for whatever. the f.d.a.

does so it is unfortunate it's true i wish we had more of those calorie counts everywhere relaxers i one of those who would i like to like killed myself into these things you know like i i want to see the number of calories just so i know you know how much fake out of a hot summer i make it i would say it's only true because i used to be a guy so i like knowing just me i know it totally changes things there's one place where i found out what the calorie count for something was it was like i'm never getting nothing done so i mean it does make a difference but it is this killing regulation right there and now this is the regulation i guess so but sometimes. i mean maybe it is because telling people stop buying it and stuff but i does i don't necessarily stop ordering that product or stop buying it i kind of just like to know that it myself i thought about it i'm just like that i think it's rather obvious already. you guys thanks for joining me tonight big something i make sure that you come back tomorrow so rights advocate michelle alexander is going to be on

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