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in the booth this time from the republican national convention seventeen delegates have been disqualified in a sharp message line up behind mitt romney or suffer the consequences so this one g.o.p. unity looks like. the dawn of a new era in egypt the country's first ever democratic election handed to the reins to the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi the military regime go quietly we'll tell you about this is a story vote in the global implications straight ahead. plus it's a big day for the immigration battle brewing in the u.s. supreme court threw out key provisions of arizona's s.b.
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ten seventy law we'll bring you the latest and show you how the u.s. stacks up against its international counterparts when it comes to immigration. it's monday june twenty fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm abbie martin and you're watching our t.v. more g.o.p. dirty tricks against ron paul supporters seventeen ron paul delegates have been disqualified from representing the state of massachusetts at the republican national convention in tampa the reason because they didn't sign an affidavit that under penalty of perjury would swear their support for mitt romney's nomination ron paul supporters are known for their rowdiness. i could would. would.
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but the republican party has never required an affidavit in the process of selecting representative delegates so why now and what will this mean for the convention to answer these questions and more i'm joined now by austin peterson director of production for freedom works. they often thanks for joining me thanks for having me so why are they doing these intimidation tactics i really don't know because it seems like it's just one step closer on the reelect obama train because romney is really going to risk a civil war in the g.o.p. if he continues to do this and it's very disingenuous of romney to come out and use an affidavit like this when he has he himself cite an executive order in two thousand and three reforming massachusetts notary laws when you look at this have a david it does have some clear problems with the notary on it what the biggest glaring problem is how can someone sign
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a notary saying that they will do something in the future if you go and you pay your light bill you have to pay your life bill when you sign the notary and get it signed so how in the world can someone say we demand that you get a form notarized saying you will do something in the future doesn't make any sense i mean the politics here might actually have some legal ground to say no we actually get have some standing here you can't make a sign an affidavit saying we're going to do something in the future to have notarize so it is there is are some legal problems here and that is a really interesting point and i didn't think about it that way yeah it is really interesting and especially in two thousand and eight when a utah delegate wanted to vote for mitt romney instead of mccain and they are in season legal counsel actually made a statement saying that they don't recognize the state's binding of national delegates consider each delegate a free agent who can vote for whoever they choose. sure absolutely but the thing is is that you know of course the republican party has their own rules they can make you know delegates obey rules that the state parties laid down and there's no federal requirement that says the delegates can't do whatever they want you know by
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strict definition of law you know we have a voting rights act which makes it so that anybody can vote for whoever they want in any federal election and technically the republican national convention is a federal election because what happens is is if you actually feel the candidate you're putting up a candidate for a federal office then you are subject to federal election laws and federal election laws mean that you cannot bind someone to to vote for a certain type of candidate delegates can vote for whoever they want now the party can say we will have repercussions if you don't do what i want and they are a private club and you will have to have the you face the music if you don't do that but you cannot say legally that someone absolutely must vote for someone and then bind them to that this evidence affidavit has no standing i believe do you think this is going to be out portion of this this lawsuit that we see against the aren't see for dent in the nation and for the voting fraud and all these other allegations you think we're going to see this now integrated this affidavit could be but i mean all it could really do is just affirm the law as it stands already which is just that it's basically that you know that the delegates really can vote
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for whoever they want but i mean like let's talk about the politics of this right now i mean mitt romney is fighting not just the libertarian wing of the republican party here it was the tea partiers that were very hard to put these delegates in it was the people that voted for these delegates it wasn't they weren't selected by you know the national can convention they were selected by the state parties the leadership of the state parties need to put up what they need to deal with the mandate of their people when the when their people say hey we vote for these delegates these are the people we want to send the national convention they need to honor that because the two great stories out of this there's this one young man who seems evan kenny's an eighteen year old ronald reagan style republican and he beat the g.o.p.'s most recent governor candidates. a delegate slot and what you really want to disenfranchise these people carol kliros she's a western mass single mom and a nurse you know she spent the last several months organizing she was absolutely terrified nervous giving her speech to be you know to become a delegate but the people elected her and it's very very strange that mitt romney
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would do this especially after rand went and stuck his neck out senator rand paul when stuck his neck out for governor romney to endorse him and say that you know that we would take these libertarians into the republican party and then ran to senator paul took a lot of backlash for that from his own supporters and so for mitt romney to come out and do something like this it says something about governor romney's politics that he's not interested in working with these libertarians in the g.o.p. and if so that means that rand's indorsement puts him in a more precarious position with his own supporters because if they are disenfranchised the republican convention you can bet that i mean hell hath no fury like a polaroid scorned and this is a really bad move by governor romney because it's not just about the libertarians there are a lot of tea party conservatives who do like senator rand paul they do like the libertarians they do want these young people in the g.o.p. and if the g.o.p. does keep pushing them trying to push them out you can guarantee that they're going to go pull the ballot for gary johnson and they will reelect him that obama well how much more can they really push that i mean this is pretty ridiculous i mean how
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did someone find an affidavit promising that you will endorse romney just action and if you absolutely cannot do that it's just against the law what are people going to do you who are like they young gentleman that you talked about who beat out the other candidate governor yeah that you would hear it i mean what i could do to young people who want to get involved in politics and they see this kind of disenfranchisement happening it's going to change it's going to bring rage and i and i really don't want to see any violence any more than we have we've seen violence occur and and you know analyzing ron paul statement to his supporters after what happened in the easy and at some of these caucuses where there was violence always done to them never were the polis instigating violence but i can't i would not want to have any more violence happen and if this something were to happen i could see the delegates at the convention get. very angry and who knows what could happen you know we've seen it you know don't tase me bro we've seen a lot of violence done in the last thing that i want is there and it to be to be a reason a cause for any more rage if the g.o.p. wants to have a have a togetherness if they want to pull everybody together to beat obama he's got to
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stop these kinds of tactics because it's not like he's going to lose the nomination what else are you going to say i mean we already know that the nominations in the bag ron paul has even come out himself and said that he doesn't have enough delegates so what really is this all about is it just to hold the embarrassment i mean we already know what happened in massachusetts what the. people i think are terror their status i think that they absolutely fear what the ron paul lives represent which is real limited government and that is the last thing that the establishment republicans want to see in the united states they do not want to see an end of bailouts they do not want to see an end to wars they do not want to see a return to civil liberties they don't want americans hearing this so they want to shut these people up that's believe in my soul that's exactly what it is and i don't want to get emotional about this but you know i really care about these issues and i care about the future of this country and i think these polis do too and they deserve to have their voice heard of the republican convention it's not like they're taking over the place it's not like they're threatening any sort of violence or even doing in a sort of violence and rand paul has come out and stuck his neck out and endorsed mitt romney and said that these people should go along to get along with they
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should work within the g.o.p. do you think that was a good well i think it was a good move for rand if he wants to stay a republican in good standing and be able to bring legislation like on the order of the fed the floor doesn't mean that i like it or that i have to go along with it and i'll choose to vote my conscience and endorsement doesn't really mean anything other than to say you know he's a better candidate than obama which you know i technically think governor romney might be a better candidate obama but to me it's really two sides of same coin and if romney pulls things like this i will be urging people to vote for the third party so right now do you endorse mitt romney as you know and i will not do so i stand on the same grounds that ron paul doesn't tell mitt romney starts to make real concessions towards a libertarian platform if he stops making actions like there's absolutely no way that a libertarian like myself could support a mitt romney i would not do it i am very i am i'm very compromising person. you know i would take steps you know towards anyone who would hold their hand out to me and say hey you know what you can't have ron paul as president you can't have rand paul as president but you know what we're going to do we're going to say to you you young paul he says you've worked so hard to take over the good work within the
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g.o.p. we're going to give you ran a rod is the v.p. we're going to put judgment of the real libertarians attorney general we're going to audit the fed and fire bernanke and that's it you know and then you know what i might actually say you know what governor romney let's do it and we'll go out there will be to obama when he does things like this he's just setting himself up for the reelect obama campaign what does he get out there and put an obama side in and front yard right now because it's effectively what he's doing well let's hear from ron paul himself about romney let's let's roll that sound bite. your son senator rand paul has endorsed romney i take it you're not ready yourself to endorse romney are you. not ready you're not ready no way. so there's ron paul seeming pretty determined that he's not going to endorse your nominee that you just said that you would concede some aspects of your platform of the libertarian platform in order to see some other things happen like the audit the fed bill really be pushed through i mean what are the chances of that that would really have to mean it doesn't look very good at the moment i had thought
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that if you know that we had made certain concessions that perhaps the g.o.p. might be more accommodating and there is still time for the g.o.p. to change their minds you know that again it's there not just only in the libertarians here they're also alienating the real conservatives who want these platform issues addressed they do want to note of the fed so i don't know what's going to happen in the next few months but these are indications that the governor romney is not serious about winning winning election in two thousand and twelve and right now with these kinds of tactics that make somebody say well you know four more years of obama versus eight years of romney we might be a better deal if we could put a republican senate and republican house in and create a divided government so that the conservatives don't go along to get along with romney themselves and you know all the conservatives right now who are saying oh you know yeah we'll pull for romney because he's a republican what's going to happen if romney wins they're all going to turn away from their libertarian platform just like they done in the past and they're going to betray us so it may be better for the republicans to lose so that they'll actually you know speak with you know limited government rather than go along to
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get along with whatever big government romney is going to push down our throats and it does seem like it's to that point where people have to ask should we continue to work within the establishment or seek something outside of it thank you everyone again thanks so much for joining us you peterson director for action for freedom works. time to check in with our web team and see what they're working on are teased by police or am going to the lake is in the newsroom to tell us more what's going on a good hour you superduper thank you so much let me tell you i don't know if you noticed but everyone will not shut the hell up about immigration today so we know the supreme court talked about arizona's s.b. ten seventy they kept some of it shot down some more but you know what else the supreme court did today before you continue on out to see your papers. you know your jokes there ok so the other thing the supreme court did today is that they ruled that mandatory life imprisonment with out the chance of parole is unconstitutional when it's applied to juveniles under the age of eighteen so intil
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this morning twenty eight of the fifty united states actually mandated life sentence without the possibility of parole for anyone convicted of a murder so that meant that there's around twenty five hundred people right now who have committed a murder or at least been convicted of committing the murder murder that's the word under the age of eighteen and they're stuck in jail forever of regardless of what age they committed at so supreme court was investigating two cases of two fourteen year olds different situations different parts of the country and they said you know what unconstitutional so it can be a big big big thing for people all across the country especially you know juveniles especially in these states where they have these laws right now and it's really really really really something that a lot of people are talking about because they're so so careful with s b ten seventy so it's very important to read about that more in our t. dot com slash usa all right and the stuff an incredible news thank you so much for filling us in so everyone. now is our two web producer and your blake with
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a preview of what's trending today on our web site i think that it. all eyes have been on in egypt that's revolution catapulted the arab spring movement there's been a bloody battle in the country ever since and a tight election muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi was declared egypt's first freely elected president over the weekend parties marina porton ira looks at how the new leadership in egypt can mean a delicate diplomacy dance for washington. egypt's revolution began with tens of thousands into here square and it became a success shortly after washington sided with the anti-government opposition by stepping down but as a mubarak responded to the egyptian people's hunger for change america's endorsement of change has paved the way for the muslim brotherhood one of the world's largest islamist movements to become egypt's strongest political force their candidate mohamed morsi just won the presidential race morsi has reportedly called for a constitution that is based on the koran and shari'a law in the case of egypt
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we're taking a piece of the board that was one of our pieces this is why it was one of the strongest american assets in the middle east and for many years we've removed that piece and brought in some people who i do not think will be friendly to us. in this video film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate. and we are yet to hear that. that. said. i love the muslim brotherhood has many different factions many different elements they are a political organization but they also have ties to terrorism they're also directly intertwined with what's going on in syria according to the new york times cia officers secretly stationed in turkey are currently working with syria's muslim
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brotherhood to smuggle automatic rifles grenades and ammunition into the country it didn't work out enough to understand what it was all mean you know it would be. oh it's not going to work out. his bike you know so what have you been he's. the syrian opposition seen here waving al-qaeda flags has received public support from the terrorist network and created what some call a defacto alliance between america and its number one enemy. critics saying america's campaign for regime change comes with the consequence of empowering more radical extreme leaders in the arab world let's not forget that assad and his government is a secular government just as gadhafi is government was a secular government if you get rid of that and you create the power vacuum or another force that is as organized and as strong will take its place continued
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political instability in cairo has raised questions about the so-called success attributed to the arab spring governments in egypt and libya were toppled with a u.s. stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe america could eventually find itself in a circumstance it hardly ever wanted very important i r t new york conflicting reports on the supreme court's ruling on arizona's controversial ten seven immigrant ah there's a split decision from scotus three provisions were struck down in their preemption of federal law but it seems the rowing is in the eye of the beholder. c.n.n. reported that arts of immigration law were rejected while fox news touted that the supreme court upheld part of the law line please to ask about immigration status and finally and as n.b.c. bragged of the high court struck down most of arizona's law here's what was being debated. number one this is the provisions that struck down it would make it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant or allow police conduct warrantless
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arrests and criminalize work for undocumented immigrants but the most controversial piece of legislation was upheld the show me your papers provision which allows police to question anyone suspected to be an undocumented immigrant and demand to see their papers may seem controversial but other countries have had much more stricter read legislation dealing with immigration so how does the u.s. compare to the rest of the world earlier i was joined by ben cohen at oeuvre the daily banter and president of banter media group and i asked him about his thoughts about the recent ruling take a listen i think it is a reflection of the kind of mood in the united states and how as a nation it deals with the issue of immigration that it's a complicated subject and there's many different competing interests as it is in the u.k. as well we have a whole i was there were problems kind of cultural complex so i think it again it's a confused ruling that it was so you know immigration policy in the united states
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is generally confused as well so i guess it's a kind of reflection of the current mood do you think it's on the on the right track with the ruling if you go this is a sign of progress or is it taking it back i think particularly the stop and the stopping and stalking policy that was the obama administration has made it clear that they are coming down on the side of federal law. applying and so states don't have the right to violate somebody's civil rights there are lots of positives that . i think the you know the rulings that allowed the. question. it was papers is very sketchy grounds that could be cause for some concern when i read a statement that obama made in response to the ruling he says a patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration system it's part of the problem why is there such a constant schism between federal law and state law when you see in the e.u.
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it doesn't seem like there's that much it seems like everyone's kind of working together and there's not really these inner cities state divisions really with their policies i think in the u.k. there is there are some problems that we have a new conservative coalition government but it's it's a it's primarily a conservative government and david cameron came in on a platform of reducing immigration and increasing actually police powers to stop and search people so there is that conflict between. you know britain and europe so the i think there is a different problem and i think obama is correct in saying that you know having states decide their own immigration policy while they may you know on the face of it you know different states you can have different problems you know if your resume is on the border with mexico they're going to have more of a problem with immigration or more of a perceived form with immigration or somewhere in the midwest which doesn't border on on a foreign country. but then again the you have the conflict between now and civil
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rights in which what supersedes what and i think obama is correct in saying that it should be a national policy the foundation is civil rights i mean america after was a nation but with immigration so the whole argument is kind of it doesn't really as an immigrant as well myself i'm an immigrant myself recent immigrants you know just . i find it quite a funny argument and i think it's there's a racial element to it as well i don't tend to get troubled when i come into the states of white british. i've seen many people on the docks in kind of the mine have a lot more problems. well let's talk about france really quickly that's a nation where it's more about integration into france and the burka ban and you see a lot of stop and showing papers laws there and it doesn't seem like people are making that big of a deal out of that country where it's more about you need to assimilate into our culture here it seems like more people are you know you're you're american but you
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but we're a melting pot and we have a bunch of different cultures and a bunch of different races living here so what is really the big deal i mean if this is happening in european countries and it seems like it's ok what is the big deal here with the stop and show me your papers thing. america again i think america has a history of i mean overseas they get and they would and countries can but generally speaking from a european perspective from some of the lives outside of. most moderate outside of the united states i actually find the race relations pretty good in america the relationship between different ethnic groups as opposed to some of our friends who is actually not very good i mean if you. are a joke and from you know you have been a pretty girl it's a fraternity which is that you know that's the saying in france but the immigrants have a different saying which is. you know you got to take a puppy which means your paper has to be c. because it's a and give your papers so you know i mean i know. several french people black
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french people who left france because of stop and search for disease the fact that they were required to carry papers and were searched almost on a weekly basis and put in prison for not having their papers on them and i think americans are right to be up in arms about anything resembling that what about in germany and their turkish and the grand relations that some would compare it as mexicans and in america do you think there's anything to learn from the e.u. and germany and relations to the turkish immigrants here in america with mexican immigrants that's an interesting question i mean germany you have to even if you're born in germany it doesn't mean that you are considered german does that mean that you technically german. born in germany the parents of turkish that they're not actually german citizens and that was that would be definitely the wrong path for america to go down as a country that is achieved its success from immigration i think that would be the wrong thing to do you know bomb as you know allowing you know was up to
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a hundred things i hundred thousand young people who for no fault of the right and transported to america by their parents. allowing them to get partisanship i think is a very positive move so i think germany would be the best. well to follow when it comes to immigration so do you think that we're pretty much a head of the european countries in terms of respect and civil liberties and respecting people's different nationalities and races i think in many ways you are definitely thank you so much for coming on for sharing your opinion was ben cohen editor for the daily banter and president for banter media group that's an issue that we've been covering for a while that our team drones for many of the thought of having robotic flying machines of all shapes and sizes over america is unsettling to say the least but what exactly can these drones be used for spying no you can't personally use drones to watch your sexy neighbor undress there are still laws preventing tom's from
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peeping and if you're caught they'll be no sympathy from the courts on that one as far as the government goes well we already know that big brother is watching and courts usually don't recognize privacy rights regarding anything that can be seen from a public vantage point so keep your blinds close if you don't want the cops seen your pile of weed delivery not yet so far the f.a.a. prohibits most commercial use of drones and delivery for compensation is not allowed the congress is asking the f.a.a. to re-examine its policy so don't write off pizza delivery drones in the near future quite yet to follow technically yes officers can follow vehicles without warrants so using drones to do instead it may be the perfect way to evade the recent ruling that requires cops to get a warrant to install a g.p.s. on someone's car this is still that futuristic scenario is here and around the corner from becoming a reality and inform yourself on what privacy rights you still have to remember the
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next time you see a u.f.o. or you think you don't worry it's just an unmanned drone watching you. the waiting game continues for wiki leaks founder julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for six days waiting to find out whether or not he'll be granted asylum artie's sarah ferguson on the ground in london with an update. julian assange has just spent his six nights in the ecuadorian embassy here in london waiting for that all important decision his first silence in the country now he's a man he's described as being let down by his own country australia and having exhausted most of his legal options in the u.k. and that's all i'm going battle against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning if a sexual assault allegations and of course the fifth has always been that if extradited to sweden it would be very easy to extradite him across to the u.s. a country that still carries the death penalty for some of the crimes that they've accused him of chilean asuncion his supporters have always maintained that the case
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against him is politically motivated and i campaign to silence not just asuncion cells but also wiki leaks the revolutionary whistle blowing web site that has hugely embarrassed many of the western governments in the past now the spike having spent more than five hundred days detained without charge that hasn't stopped in sunshine in that time he's posted an insidious show that's been running on r.t. you know in a previous show we'd seen him interviewing the president of ecuador and they seemed to hit it off the president of ecuador telling julian assange welcome to the club of the persecuted and then what will be his eleventh and final interview airing tomorrow on our son to meet with the man that he describes as giants of the intellectual left wing renowned linguist and rebel thing can be and so we believe the street fighting novelist and military historian during that interview they
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discussed the new ways of revolutionary movements the scene taking place around the world in the past couple of years i didn't see it coming and i don't think most people are coming to your commission of very. inspired activities. all of the united states so the the arab spring has been very infectious and it's still going on in different ways in the interim scheme sooner or later there would have to be. peter reaction to the. bitter cliffs were the. four for the past generation but talking about the united states but the phenomena are basically world would you going to see his eleventh and final interview for his show on our. i tell you no less controversial and intriguing that we've come to expect from the man he founded wiki leaks he many say have revolution
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allies whistleblower and he once again has the entire eyes of the wells upon him in his own going struggle against extradition it was our two correspondents there firth and doesn't for now for most part of this or any show today you're in luck or post all our interviews and for online for your viewing pro pleasure just go to youtube dot com slash r t america and watch the shows as many times as your heart desires for the latest breaking news of all the segments to cover today and a few we didn't have time to get to check out our website our to dot com slash usa and if you love or hate one of our segments today you know a strong opinion about the u.s. immigration debate or ron paul's rowdy supporters or we want to hear from you we want your comments feedback and story suggestions we want to know what it is you want us to cover and also what you think you can follow me on on twitter at abby martin and we'll be back here in a half hour an hour and a half with more news and in-depth interviews kept a lookout is up next.
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