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always stories here in moscow in thirty minutes but then it's back to the u.s. capitol mall for me alone to show just moments away. well there's one thing that's been consistent in the ten years of war in afghanistan that when the weather turns the fighting takes over the weekend a major chord named attack took place across afghanistan it was reported thirty six taliban members dead after an eighteen hour standoff between u.s.

led nato and afghan forces and the taliban members now according to a.p. the militants targeted buildings that were still under construction but with people inside as well as nearby parliament and school buildings it was all part of a spring offensive by the taliban or one of their spokespeople it was two months in the making now the coordinated attacks took place in several locations including kabul and lobar province and the paktia province and according to one of the captured militants the attacks were linked to the honey network from the afghan pakistan border reason tax or just deadly for the militants they also left eight casualties and security forces whose efforts were praised by president hamid karzai who also quickly called out nato for having a serious intelligence failure an effort to deflect blame and there is plenty to go around on sunday john mccain took the opportunity to blame the troop drawdown and president obama's withdrawal timeline for the uptake in violence. but every time the president announced another withdrawal his military commander said it increases

the risk that's what. actually what you're seeing there is the years of mounting failures in afghanistan and i'm going to disagree with senator mccain because i think that the evidence is clear i think tired counterinsurgency experiment has completely backfired and the pentagon knows it and if you remember the time that colonel gangle davis was report he highlighted how inconsistent the line is that sending more troops is going to bring more success what actually happened is that the more troops that we sent in the more violence we saw so this is an old tired line of thinking used by people like mccain and the reason all this is even more plot a problematic of course aside from asking why it is that we've dumped blood and billions into a war here for ten years is because it has yet another shadow over the question of what happens after we leave lately the line coming from president karzai is of the afghan security forces will be ready to take over and the shift is also slowly underway and an agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan was just reached the other week that will require american to hand

over the leading role in the raids to afghan forces and now a war it will be needed seventy two hours in advance from an afghan court but as retired military military commander lieutenant colonel twenty shaper pointed out to us the u.s. might have trouble following those new rules. i think you can see practical measures taken by our military no matter what especially when you put it in terms of what is military necessity and if you see an enemy going to our house you're not going to wait for a war and i guess you know one of the things like to see is how this is applied if you offer regional level and i think you know it was know within two months if it's working or not i don't think it's going to work. but those aren't all the notable changes at a time we're handing over more control to afghans they've announces they'll be reducing their security forces from three hundred fifty two thousand to two hundred thirty two skinny two hundred thirty thousand by the time that us whatever he seems to forget is of course of the build up of vatican four as it was supposed to be

part of the exit strategy but if they're shrinking then who is going to be left in charge of the us finally closes up shop now in the meantime we're going to start seeing a shift to more special ops teams as the drawdown begins and to kick off this transition the pentagon has just to sign a new to be commander jason air force brigadier general stephen clarke the special ops forces won't be there forever either so the closer to withdrawal that we get which is what is right and where public opinion is turning and more questions arise as to what exactly is going to happen once we leave. now this week is stop cyber spying week and a number of organizations like the a.c.l.u. the center for democracy and technology electronic frontier foundation and fight for the future are all getting behind the next battle over the internet and it's happening right on capitol hill now this is no longer about sopa and protect ip instead we're now moving on to how we told you about this legislation that's

working its way through the house it was introduced last year but now it's really getting some traction and basically cispa stands for the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act what happens is under the banner of cyber security this bill would allow private companies to share your personal information with the government what happens here is that the legislation doesn't specify which government agencies can actually get their hands on your personal information so that means that video d. the n.s.a. those agencies that probably would want the most means that they're fair game it also doesn't say what exactly the government can do with private information once they have their hands on it so we have to ask what exactly is going to happen next . we will get back to that story with you we're just waiting on our guest in the meantime let's move on. our guys aside for tonight's tools on war and tonight this distinction goes to

republican congresswoman virginia foxx for her comments on student debt last week see boxes on the radio show of right wing renegade g. gordon liddy pretty standard media appearance for conservative lawmakers like fox and during this interview a sixty eight year old congresswoman from north carolina made observations about tuition observations are about as useful young people today as instructions on how to do the twist take a listen. i worked my way through the newt i never bore the money. i borrowed a little bit of money because we both were totally on our own i have very little tolerance for people who tell me to play graduate with two hundred thousand dollars a head or even a health and art again because there's no reason for the declaration of independence life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. you know it on your you have it down pain your lack. now before pointing out the obvious are

a number of factors that lead us to award the congressman with tonight's tools i'm honored for one fox who is the chair of the house subcommittee on higher education and worker training well she displayed an astonishing lack of sympathy for the plight of young adults in these tough economic times even for a conservative republican then there's the fact of the congresswoman counts for profit college college officials as some of her campaign committees biggest donors and that's according to open secret start or turns out they've given her forty thousand dollars for the upcoming election and let's be clear fox is a land of opportunity remark doesn't really hold this true that when she was growing up the new york times reported yesterday that children of immigrants or recent college graduates are increasingly leaving the u.s. to return to their parents' homeland and one of the reasons might be because college graduates are making a lot less money than they used to now according to the center for college affordability and productivity more than thirty five percent of college graduates who are underemployed in two thousand and eight and nine hundred sixty seven only

about eleven percent were underemployed so graduates are struggling even harder for less compensation not just waiting for rewards to get dumped in their laps and don't forget this is after graduation after they've racked up the student loan debt and graduates are having such a hard time getting work then you think that it's going to be really easy for undergrads to get a good paying job and so this is only some of the main reason the winston it's tool time he's since he graduated from u.n.c. chapel hill the cost of going to college has exploded like a can of beer in the hands of a freshman trying to shotgun for the first time since nineteen sixty eight when farts graduated the average inflation adjusted cost of tuition room and board at public university has increased more than ten fold the average real cost of tuition and room and board of private university increased by a factor of almost thirteen income hasn't nearly jumped by that much only by about a factor of seven but clarkson really seemed a page you want tell to. these facts when she was going on her rant instead she

chooses to suggest that the thirty seven million americans who had one trillion dollars an outstanding student debt last year are just plain lazy and will make these statements even scarier and the this woman is the chair of the house subcommittee on higher education so she's tasked with ensuring that student loans continue to be an engine of social mobility really important characteristics to ensure a true land of opportunity rather than the economic tropper they've become for so many after all being a full time student is tough a lot of people out there have to work multiple jobs and the ones that do often end up dropping out and yet even then the two thousand. and linda gates foundation of forty five percent of students at four year universities worked over twenty hours per week and over eighty percent of dropouts interviewed by the report so that they quit school because they either couldn't afford it or they struggled to strike a balance between learning and earning but the fox builder esteemed views on any sort of back foot soever no she just ranted at struggling graduates like

a stereotypical grandparent moaning about locking fifteen miles through the snow just to get to the bus stop so for that congresswoman vox graduates magnitka lovey from university. well still to come tonight we'll have a fresh those a happy hour for you there are a fledgling simple idea that a new diet has a prize a looking for cost focus of direct.

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video. she's mine you'll get. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. i kind of time for happy hour and when he's busy evening aren't you producer jenny churchill and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger and black rock that met thanks for joining me guys thanks for having us let's start ok so we started off the show make fun of the mainstream media because really all they were talking about at least this morning was the secret service prostitution scandal of going on in colombia totally forgetting what they were actually discussing at the seven americas but there's also another really good that's. what it says but will the secret service were getting hookers meanwhile

hillary clinton like rick perry state was partying it up as well take a look. at the clinton lets loose in colombia it is now time for the poly side bar check out the secretary of state having a beer with some female leads at the cafe her bed early sunday morning according to the opposed the group ordered a dozen beers to go into the bush and bottled water. just a glass of whiskey i like not even like shots of whiskey just just. i like i'm really glad that they weren't ordering like daiquiri and they were actually going for it i like appletini. here isn't like two thousand it was totally ploy for i got to ask you how many people were involved when you think about the headlines that you see and you see clear in colombia hookers secret service a lady who you think is really referring. to believes yeah yeah hillary's more like

you know risky game of pictionary you know in a wine cooler and i really like she was part. of my i really like that i guess is ok as long as there's no hookers yeah involves i mean because you know how does that work rate so the secret service they're in trouble because they weren't representing america properly even though hookers are totally legal there in colombia but what do you think ok drinking is getting ahead here so why don't you if you're going to show me deal dancers who are breaking the law in colombia they were just doing something that people here particularly like. they're not supposed to do if they want to do that in their off time which they're not supposed to have that's one thing so i just really like our producer christine congress morning that hillary letter scrunchy down. the way that we decided to send the story i guess you could say well as you move on plug a little bit about lobbyists before about became president he made

a lot of promises he spoke a lot about lobbyists a lot about how he's going to change the culture here in washington i think we have seen some clips to remind him casey for. this race to take a modest wash to their base of setting the agenda. what is that going to be like. then when i want to go i want to know if you look at my track record not only do i not take. your voice is that he plays in the united states. all right so we have covered countless stories on the show of ways in which obama has exactly fulfilled these promises or been a lot of exceptions some waivers and they'll make for people right other people that manage to. register as a lobbyist and then waited the two years period that they had to they get back from the white house and listen to this what

a review of campaign donations and white house visitor logs basically show that some of the biggest donors to the obama campaign shocker they get invited to the white house and they have probably been easier to getting in and then release them they often bring guests and leave guests are often happens to just be obvious so if you're a big donor you get a friend if you're a lobbyist for the big donor friend then. i also loved that part of perhaps report showed that obama one of his big donors who brought a lobbyist had an event that was like seventeen thousand dollars a plate that obama came to it's a fundraiser and obama at that event ripped on lobbyist influences in washington to being a campaign donor in a what they called a potent program i love that you can do i don't take money from lobbyists but guys who have buddies who are lobbyists carrying satchels of cash out of the white house you know all that's just i mean i personally honestly believe that lobbyists are

the core root problem in this country and that until we figure out a way to stop people from being able to just poor money and a lobbyist who can influence our lawmakers nothing's going to change and i honestly honestly believe that they're at the root of everything along. yes that is the problem or the law makers of the problem because you know because they get zero influence by having to be out in their sleep in a deal for the reason that there are so influences because everyone in office is just working towards their next election they're working towards that next thing and. i. go bottom line is ok sure it's politics but anybody who goes into politics was tainted to start with so i don't think it was a stretch for a lot of these guys you know to go from taking money in one place to taking money for their vote well one of the things that i thought was interesting is that one of the lobbyist they got to go in there was an entertainment industry lobbyist and this was all happening last summer season even before that last summer but it was

happening last year i think right before we really saw sopa pipa and all this take off but that's one area where i guess they didn't win because then the internet came out we will be talking about about this week about this anti cyber spying week we think it's an anti-slavery spy ring i think it's really curious as to what you think about this and i think the bottom line is the government does a fair amount of looking but you wonder who really likes their stuff it's google everybody with a g. mail account you realize google reads every e-mail every google every single piece of commerce you do google watches tracks and sells so i mean the government scares me google and it's so funny because google came out this week saying that facebook and who was the other one were really well i was there was one of the co-founders of the little girls or hebrew and basically what he said is that he's never seen the internet have as many you know there have never been as many threats to web freedom as there are now and he mentioned governments with and mostly put all the

blame on his competitors like facebook and google would not have been able to exist had facebook been around where google first started but i mean what's one thing you know when google sells i guess you could say to advertisers then you start getting annoying ads. i've said well sorry but when they can just hand over all their private information to any government agency and then this legislation doesn't even specify what that government agency is allowed to do with it i think that's the scariest legislation we've seen yet i think any time the government gets involved regulating anything it generally goes south gets overdone and this is just one more example soulfully the internet will rise up again let's dominate this thing and shut it down i do hope internet will rise up and then we will be covering more about this week ok so. who doesn't want to be i guess the i would never really want to be president because it was a miserable job probably the only really good day you have this inauguration day

when lehrer everybody loves you think obama remembered that thank. god i wasn't. a god good. host of mitt romney obviously wants to be the president but he's planning way ahead but it's actually doug that you can get a preferred status at a retreat basically in an observation rich retreat following his inauguration as president for a price tag of up to her of fifty thousand dollars i mean whose can actually be stupid enough to buy that now before the election but i just have to get a rebate. i just want to know is dick cheney going to be on this retreat and is there going to be hunting because then i don't think anyone should sign up it's really frightening if anything. romney is going to win no question about it you

richard don't have made romney i can here and we president romney executives are going to. you know it's not every rubio which is too bad that would reform i predict a double x. chromosome or someone with extra meller. if they do another white guy another old white guy. i think it's going to be another old white guy i think it's going to be a hologram pailin no i think it's going to be a hologram of ronald reagan it's going to run with romney. resurrected. i could be but i think that people are the ones that are let's move on enough politics right let's move on to some fun stuff we're actually really discussing sessions is so gross. there's an ad out there and it's important i'm all about preaching safe sex and so the u.s. organization called safer sex per seniors because we've done stories about the statistic lee let's see i rates are skyrocketing like through the roof for senior citizens but. they have. been all kinds of

sexual positions so i have an idea and i think that this is actually abuse of the elderly and so i think we need to see are getting paid actors are seen now they don't know what they're doing they're easily influenced i think we need to start a new law i'm i will put it out there granny porn stuff kiddie porn star granny porn but it have to end that is unacceptable i don't want to see that this is for clothes on if you have to use a walker then it kind of probably the least of your worries at that point that was . just other people just what i have stated here and. i'm sorry but the elderly are not on you tube watching that video the rest of us were subject to that and i'm now scarred i think possibly for life and i think she was still a pretty decent actually i take back what i said before about the law they should

just show that's a bit old school student and we won't have teenage pregnancy anymore that. so the church will come up with fantastic ideas about that and i think that's. ok i'm not going to brag about. this new diet i mean people obviously will go to a lot of extremes when it comes to dieting i think especially before your wedding day but this one again is pretty close to like. but the diet she tried was no ordinary calorie counting program jessica says she went extreme spending eight days on a feeding tube part of an increasingly popular but somewhat controversial program called the diet which promises to help you shed twenty pounds in just ten days. so yeah they promise twenty pounds in ten days what happens is you're fed

a constant slow drip of protein and fat mixed with water which contains zero carbs totals eight hundred calories a day and. go through a process called toast. that i don't like you would you want to lose your three kids you would. have given ten days before they came up with looks like you know you lost twenty pounds but your husband no longer wants to marry your bride of frankenstein he is what it looks like and the guy who marries her deserves her that's that's a dude who is going to but it's going to be terrible rushers put our nose by society to look good on our wedding day is that women are willing to go to these extremes and nobody cares you have to deal with the kennedys for the rest of your life you know if i feel we're all waiting for that nobody's going to look back and say you know what you look a little fat in your wedding pictures you really should have shoved it too down. like no one's going to tell you they're going to say you should have something you see if. you get to have

a good looking wedding photos is it good those ten days of misery are worth it like no no no you know you're going to be fat again and all your honeymoon pictures like sorry nobody's going to notice that also twenty pounds to have that thing down your throat for ten days i don't get how well you actually feel if you have to plan ahead of larry saying this in our editorial meeting this morning it was you know if you have a dress and you have to get fitted and stuff you can't then just realize you're going to drop twenty pounds on your wedding day and think it'll still think it's called i'll work out like i think this is the epitome of late like you you can't. healthy options and mark out you out. you have to look like a charm the term apology and. so do it. all right i think we're done. thanks for joining you guys about it but tonight show thank you for tuning in ad make sure that you come back tomorrow i'm excited for all of them being progress is going to be joining us for happy hour in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the elena shell on facebook and follow us on twitter and if there's

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