in recess but as long as fun and games for them then while most opponents of law enforcement are drones have focused on privacy issues we're going to tell you about a serious problem with them because we've gone forth and officials scrambling. into the stores in here before going global and now it's my.

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well this week congress began a week long independence day recess but don't expect too many of them to just kick up their heels and relax you see these breaks are an ideal time for many to turn on the campaign fund raising efforts seems like it could be tricky though right as a whole the legislative bodies approval rating is a business low right now in fact last year the u.s. becoming a communist nation even received more support of opinion polls than congress did

and last month c.n.n. shed some light on a very other interesting topic one hundred twelve congress represented by the red bar in these graphs here well they've worked fewer days and passed fewer bills than either of the previous two at this juncture even legislators takes a lashing out at their colleagues sharing in constituents for a stray sions a congress is gridlock. we're gripped in gridlock because people on both sides of the aisle in both chambers and in the white house are more concerned with politics than progress or approval ratings are in the take and they should be mr boehner isn't even able to bring what he was calling a signature bill to the floor when people get frustrated with congress good reason to do it but the fact of the matter is partisanship if you have it worse and worse every year that i've been there the congress is unpopular i think people voted. for some folks who came to washington then created gridlock confrontation. now as much as all of that would lead you to believe that fund raising could be hard if last

election cycles halls any indication representatives are going to have no trouble attracting the big bucks because when it comes schmoozing lawmakers do appear to put in the long hours and they do get the results there and unfortunately it seems like that's the only place where they really put in the real time and get the most done and let's go do a last month report by mother jones reporter david gill sent me a pretty cheeky calculation taking campaign finance data from each member's last election assuming that they raised money forty hours a week fifty weeks a. here gilson found out of the average house representative would have raised three hundred sixty seven dollars per hour per hour and that's if it was a full time gig now under the same assumptions the average senator raised eight hundred and nineteen dollars per hour if you ask me that is absolutely insane so what other words houser percent of this rate of seven hundred thirty four thousand dollars per year and senators raise over one point six million dollars annually and

a quarter of the new york times that amount would legally or would annually would place both sets of legislators firmly within the one percent in terms of income now you have to also take in mind that those are just averages for the top five fundraisers in the senate and the house take in enough money to pay for lindsay lohan's bar tab for at least another decade so the top fundraiser is barbara boxer she raise the equivalent of two thousand four hundred and forty four dollars per hour harry reid raised two thousand and sixty eight per hour al franken took in a thousand eight hundred seventy five for our john mccain when he grabbed an hour early one thousand eight hundred twenty three dollars and it's also don't forget marco rubio his hourly fund raising haul equals to one thousand eight hundred twelve now even the least prolific senate fundraiser mike lee he raised one hundred forty three dollars an hour which is two hundred eighty six thousand dollars on an annual basis that's a lot of money so let's move on to the house here tea party favorite michele

bachmann she topped the list raising the equivalent of three thousand three hundred and ninety one dollars for our speaker john boehner raised two thousand four hundred forty nine allen west took in one thousand six hundred and thirty six and house majority leader eric cantor one thousand four hundred eighty nine and let's not forget about joe wilson he's a south carolina representative who accused obama of lying during the state of the union in two thousand and ten and he reaped a windfall last election taking in one thousand one hundred and eighty five dollars per hour and the sad thing is that the weakest fundraiser in the house his name is joe potts he still took in over one hundred thousand dollars annually or fifty five dollars an hour. so those are a lot of numbers there but even though lawmakers don't actually fundraise full time it's pretty clear at this point out a good chunk of time asking for and receiving that cold hard cash you'd think that since wall street collapse lawmakers to spend more time trying to come up with

constructive legislation but no little wonder why they're so hated right so why does fire for a job there earns them little respect especially considering how well they get people to part with their cash and these guys could make a killing in the corporate world because rank and file members of house and the rank and file members of the house and the senate well they only make one hundred seventy four thousand dollars a year where is i don't know take the average as and p. five hundred c.e.o. they've made over twelve million in two thousand and eleven so you just have to ask yourself why the public sector well congress people are already fabulously wealthy but we had such a law on the show in november of last year and he discussed how members of congress like most other rich people well they've seen their asset portfolios balloon while average americans have been suffering. sixty percent of the said its composition are millionaires and if you actually look at the median sort of net worth of a member of congress is something like half a million dollars whereas the median net worth of like an american household

american family is a little bit under a hundred thousand dollars ninety six thousand dollars the upper echelon of the american society. even though they lost wealth and they lost income during the recession they're sort of a loss of income while there's nothing like what happened to the rest of the country i mean someone actually did some research and found their incomes rebounded about fifty percent faster than the rest the american people. now that are viewed there came after a c q roll call study show that congress is aggregate net wealth increased by twenty five percent between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten that was at the height of the recession mind you how this could maybe experience plain by the fact that there's income inequality in congress itself but recent federal reserve data suggests that the average lawmaker. retirement portfolio is doing even better than the one percent if you the data released last month revealed that median household net wealth plunged by thirty eight point eight percent between two thousand and seven and two thousand and ten even the top ten percent of households

they saw then their net worth robbed two by less than a percent but according to a separate study the top one percent saw a net worth drop by eleven point one percent between the height of the bubble in two thousand and seven april two thousand and ten then we go to the center for responsive politics they say that between two thousand and seven and two thousand and ten the median senator and representative saw average net wealth shoot up by ten point six and fifty four point seven percent respectively now to make this seem like the result of impropriety the washington post reported last week that from two thousand and seven to two thousand and ten one hundred and thirty legislators or their families treated millions in stocks of companies lobby on lobbying on bills that came before their committee so these deals could be collectively worth as much as two hundred and fifteen million dollars and one of every trade by lawmakers they seem to correspond with legislation shocker right so it seems like a good a lot of good old self interest is a good explanation for why members of congress actually put up with the pressure on

the all the hate all they make less in salary than private sector executives there's much less bricks your savings when you've got access to golden nuggets of information it's clearly a very lucrative gig the legislators won't want to give up anytime soon even if it means kissing babies shaking old people's hands or spending night after night making for campaign cash not to mention of course most of the time they just move on to lobbying or working for the private sector next to the good old revolving door so welcome to washington everyone. now we all knew that it was coming for the blessing of congress and the white house f.a.a. is finally working on rules to open up to mystic airspace to drones by two thousand and fifteen a first this was tested out by law enforcement but of course before long seen like everybody in their grandma was going to want a drone and we've already seen evidence worldwide of drones being used for various purposes. sensible eastend is the most likely scenario but until that car

comes a police team trains regularly in a remote field we like the idea that we were able to stop look down and stare and one specific point we can launch this put it over a fire put it over hazmat spill put it over a house with a barricaded suspect and literally give the incident commander the ability to look at the entire scene. with a bird's eye view japanese authorities are using eighty hawk helicopter drawn to survey the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant conservationists in south africa want to import drone and radar technology to track rano poachers not only is it good tactically for swat call out or any tactical situation there are numerous search and rescue applications for it after a hurricane they could send one of these up fast and assess damage this helicopter drawing is what captured the slick video. the aerial to it is used to market pricey

real estate in l.a. what would you want for i don't know exactly security maybe. maybe you just like to you know have a good look see where where am i from three stories up. now all that of course disk loued the military uses but as you see there is already a plethora of options for domestic drones now there are obviously a lot of questions that need to be answered when it comes to privacy that's a concern that i for one personally share before we get ahead of ourselves let's not forget of the technology isn't exactly perfect while the government defense contractors want to talk about drones say that they're safe there are fish and that they're cheap there's always something that they're not telling us and so a team of students of the university of texas at austin radio navigation laboratory well they conducted a successful experiment where they overrode the drones preset navigation system so in other words they hacked it and they did it it using. technique called spoofing

and the team headed by professor todd humphries manipulated the navigation system so he explained r t america today how that process works but it turns out that the civilian g.p.s. signals are completely open on authenticated so all you have to do is gin up your own signals that are indistinguishable from the civilian g.p.s. signals and then raise the power sufficiently that you commandeer the g.p.s. receiver instead of the authentic signals. now it's even more frightening about that is the device of the team designed only costs about a thousand dollars and they could easily be used to a much more devastating effect also according to humphries we can do this with the small when we can do it with a big one and it just shows that the kind of mentality that we got after nine eleven where we reinforced the cockpit door to prevent people hijacking planes but we need to adopt that mentality as far as the navigation systems for these you a piece. and the thing is that this team humphries they weren't being paid to do this i'm for his conduct of the experiment because he was

a concerned citizen so then he alerted the department of homeland security regarding his successful experiment and then he was able to replicate the whole process for government officials and d.h. said d.h. as says it plans to address this issue but nonetheless the hacking ability i think is a pretty big deal you see unlike the predator drones used by the military in places like pakistan afghanistan yemen and somalia all the g.p.s. systems on domestic drones are encrypted files not forget of course that iran does have its hands on one of our predator drones and while they may have shut it down they claim that it's intact so we don't know that could have been hacked to but what humphrey's fears is a domestic drone specifically are completely vulnerable anybody with a mission to hack into a drone can change its functions to do anything at the hacker desires and with drones potentially being used everywhere we're talking about a lot of targets for hackers to choose from. five in ten years we've got thirty thousand of these drones and having the national interest. cohabit with the piloted

vehicles each one of these could be potential missiles to use against us if it had been commandeered by somebody on the ground. now it's also not forget the us is planning on building nuclear powered drones capable of months of flight so what if somebody had one of those the results could be catastrophic and makes the government's argument the drones will undoubtedly make us safer seem a lot more questionable and of course we can't help but ask if our military drone strikes abroad have left civilians angry some secret percussions what america be leaving itself wide open to hackers who are looking for revenge. now just ahead tonight one local police department brought along a news crew to catch their completely botched raid training slane why that department points night patrols on a what and unhappy are rupert murdoch warns against scientology an anderson cooper leaves nobody is surprised after his big announcement stating.

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get off sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. our guys it's time for tonight's tools i will warrant and tonight we're giving it to a police department that is marred by technological ignorance and his heel for excessive force the unfortunate characteristics that all lead it to terrorize and in an innocent excuse me innocent family here last week it was brought to the attention of evansville police that are not of this threat even made online against officers

and their families so the department investigated the comments they decided that they were going to take action and boy did the part department take action police commanders sent a heavily armed swat team to the house where they thought of the threat of the maid from and they were so sure that they were busting up a house full of homegrown terrorists and they invited a local news crew to film their heroism take a look at this i would just use their evansville police department swat team serves a search warrant i don't hold more power avenues. here one thing. then another. and then the team moves in. now the thing is that evansville police officers probably should have thought twice before their dramatic smash and grab the person they were looking for they didn't even live there so who do they find it's i will they found eighteen year old woman

watching the food network and her grandmother who is another part of the house now makes a story even worse as the woman's grandfather later told a local newspaper at the front door was unlocked the whole time now police did knock on the door they announce that they had a search warrant but they didn't bother waiting she proceeded to actually require the cops to wait for a response after all and that's kind of why this incident is so troubling cops have every right to investigate threats against and they should be allowed to kick in doors when it's absolutely necessary but something that we have discussed at length on this show is how local police forces have become increasingly militarized with the war on terrorism the war on drugs and braise by most but both major parties cause for giving a free a free heavy hand to brutalize with impunity radley balko has been on the show to talk about the subject quite frequently and one disturbing fact that he pointed out is that police conduct roughly forty thousand no knock raids on an annual basis and typically these cops are taken to task for their terrorizing tactics so they show

no contrition for harassing law abiding citizens just take a look at how they portrayed the raid to the local news crew even after they realized they had gotten it wrong. no one has been arrested and no charges have been filed yet but police are continuing their investigation but will take steps to address the issue of contraband committed for making the threats we're going to address that and if you have the means to carry out those threats and we find those then additional charges will come with that as well. yep that's right no arrests no terrorists just a teenager watching t.v. and her granny yet was there an apology from the bullies no of course not the only mistake of the residents of the house made was a failure to secure their wife by router because the threats were made from their unsecured network and its ip address the lead the police to the house but it's not clear if the offender was a visitor just a passer by using a smartphone but cops chose to bust up the place like they were in some third rate

action movie well they must realize that they made a huge mistake though because a few days later they went to investigate the threats at a house a few doors down but they didn't kick in the door they didn't throw in flash bangs like they were playing call of duty then that was necessary to conduct the investigation although a grandmother the second house does claim that she had to run out and stop police from smashing up the place and hurting her grandchildren which if true is sad and in fact the whole story is sad police can keep community safe without endangering the safety of law abiding citizens they've been doing it for a long time without running roughshod over the constitution but for some reason they find it necessary to use excessive force strike fear into the hearts of average people and the evansville police are guilty of the latest example of this they fail to realize that the unsecured network could have allowed anybody in the area with an i phone to send the threats but hey rather than being tech savvy they prefer to take the heavy handed route so for that the evidence of police when tonight's tool time award.

our guide it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening alone to show senior producer jenny churchill and alex sites wald political reporter for salon dot com welcome i don't think we've had you on since you started working for us a lot have we thanks for middle to get a little congratulations briley back at her congrats on your first day of all of that is ok. you know where i read my brain is working really slowly it's ok good just got back last night i'm a little jet lagged but let's move on from alone a t.v. to something that herman cain wants to put out there take a look at cain t.v. . contraceptive coverage regulation. if they make me pay for my birth control pills and we distribute the world i learned in school spreading the wealth is good for everyone we'll learn from real life that it's not. true or it gets cold fish

let's go and. we got. a lodging on july fourth herman cain has twitter facebook for the site that was the trailer and. project called teen t.v. let's give a lamb a gun i don't want to learn code for i have to do you know because i honestly have no idea what that's a reference to i guessing it's like some political thing about the lambs were following you know but it was something that you know it's really good this is the most reasonable thing that herman cain has said in a long time so i think we should just let it roll i don't now i'm going to watch obviously i can't i honestly can't imagine especially not imagine anything more interesting and hilarious than herman cain's television show i read i didn't find that trailer all that interesting or hilarious that kind of found it weird but but in that that in and of itself i guess is kind of intriguing i think so i mean it

was like the old saying look you the lamb of exactly the kind of like glenn back you know you have to watch so then later we can make fun of it on the show don't watch you don't know what happened you can't make fun of it we're going to have an entire member of the team dedicated to just watching t.v. so that we can then play the clips and talk about yeah if you want my job you can send your resume along with a check it out and. so tom cruise is. it been in the news lately. really. citing the. real reason behind this remark to be tom struggling. even that you may have daughters. we just love those weird videos of course because of all that rupert murdoch decided to weigh in on twitter and tweeted watch katie holmes and scientology developed story develop something creepy maybe even evil about these

people and so now everyone is going crazy the murdoch verse is like tom cruise in the scientologists and you know i know that just really must've been a massive blow to scientology for someone as creepy and evil as a reserve or how to call you know you'd be an evil that's just like you really can't get much lower yeah i love it i just want to see them go at each other and just like could destroy each other he's been getting you know totally trolled by all these scientologists you can handle it like it was or murdoch exactly so i just wanted this war as a matter of money rupert murdoch or the scientologists it's a good question but i think he might be the only have you wait out there who can go up against scientology and say what he wants without them coming after him till they get to him he will probably be a scientologist in a few years. i'm actually i'm intrigued to watch this develop now and now that you know now we doubt that you. now have a lot of money we'll see where this story goes. ok let's move on to the probably

least surprising news story of the entire day take a look. setting the record straight anderson cooper has revealed he's gay a silver haired journalist and talk show host says quote the fact is i'm gay always have been always will be and couldn't be anymore happy comfortable with myself and proud. so i think it was andrew sullivan right that he that he told this to now everyone is making fun of it saying we've known that for years obviously a lot of good tweets out there like breaking making fun of it but he is probably the most prominent t.v. news host out there we have you have rachel maddow too but. when it comes to a male being openly gay yeah i mean there's there's people out there waiting for shepard smith to make a somewhat announcement i don't know i don't have any intel on that i was surprised however the ellen de generous you know anderson a tweet saying congrats on coming out or whatever because i thought you'd be jealous that someone that looks so someone is gay and has a. nice thought you might be

a little nervous about the competition for they're the talk show of the day but i'm totally with you this is like great news and the people are criticizing him for not doing it sooner but you know better late than never and good for america well now i'm all believe me because she thinks anderson cooper's a fox and i had to break the news to her while back that he was gay she was devastated and she still like denied it now it's true are you going to get it we will have to talk about that all of guarded. albemarle story thanks for joining me saturday night thanks for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow glenn greenwald and chris hedges will both be on the program sort of be a great show in the meantime don't forget if you like your own show on facebook to follow us on twitter and subscribe to our you tube channel and also don't forget the now you can check us out on the lewis well coming up next is the new.

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