been in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture. rand paul's wednesday filibuster drone on for thirteen hours but will it change the debate around the administration's remote assassination program we'll talk about that and more in tonight's poll and in case you didn't know today today is international women's day it's great strides toward equality but we can't stop now women may be our best hope to save planet i'll tell you why it's rights to take and it's going to college really necessary last deal stevens writes conversations with great minds. are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture imo are a forest cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research to call williams democratic strategist an attorney and marc harrold attorney and libertarian commentator and thank you all for joining us

tonight rand paul made headlines with his thirteen hour filibuster of the you know you typically filibusters are like you know the aide to senator coburn sends an e-mail to the aide to harry reid saying shut the thing down it's like he didn't have to do this but on the other hand he brought up this issue of drones and the ministration policy and it's time marc what i'm thinking. a lot of liberals and a lot of libertarians and frankly probably a lot of people in the middle are saying hey wait a minute this is a good topic well it's a great topic this shouldn't be a partisan issue whether the government can send a drone around and killed american citizen without due process on american soil that's not a partisan issue hopefully that's still an american issue and anyone looking at that says clearly the government can't do that it does violate due process i'm glad that it was brought to the forefront you know that any time a filibuster in this day and age is trending on twitter it just you know sometimes you want to cure apathy more than convince anybody of anything and i think this was a step towards not curing apathy but people got interested in it on one side or the

other and i think a lot of people who don't usually pay attention to c.-span were watching c.-span instead of reality t.v. or something else so i thought it was a good thing but the fact that anybody would think that during these drone strikes could be legal without any due process or judicial oversight is not me a partisan issue if you are going to hear anything not what eric holder said and he said a follow up email saying no that's not what i said but there is for gap in there nicole where you know somebody engaged in combat could be drawn straight to the united states i'm not sure what they were combat i mean since the patriot act yeah i mean air the department of justice did finally respond i guess say he was looking for some type of response in the administration and the administration has a thing for a while that they feel as though they have the constitutional authority to go down this road that they do have the constitutional authority if there is an american citizen that is jeopardizing america interest that is engaging in terrorist acts on american soil that they have the constitutional right to do that and so eric holder

you know has acknowledged that for years i mean wolf not years before a while now that they've had the authority to do this you know goes back to the bush yeah it does and so why it's so wonderful idea it's precisely because it was some one of the things that the bush administration demonstrated national security extremely important i commend this president for recognizing the seriousness of the problem and. i am not interested in a whole bunch of trials so i'm going to raise executive branch cutting the third branch of government the judicial branch out of the loop is a fine thing actually i think that's always a good idea generally speaking i mean if we're not talking about believing well i start my disagreement about whether or not every enemy combatants absolutely not and if you want to avoid drones coming in and and destroying your life don't threaten to blow up planes don't go in and blow up of buildings the president to say enemy combatant doesn't have the right to due process i mean absolutely not to give due process is when you get to meet your maker you get your last chance to plead your case and if he wants you to go and get your seminary they want to just

go get your seven or eight wives otherwise you're no longer our problem mark and i don't agree i mean if somebody is threatening to blow up a plane there are criminal charges if they're actually doing something immediately that puts third parties law enforcement military personnel somebody in immediate eminent danger of course the government can react and they will but these are preplanned strikes in other words if they come about ahead of time you send somebody you know looks if you can arrest and what if obviously the government always protect itself and its citizenry but that's not what we're really talking about here are blowing up planes is not about making a political statement not about having a difference of opinion not a complaint to the i.r.s. that is a national security act of aggression and that's exactly why the government ought to respond the way that it is a national security issue but at the same time when these people are captured we don't really capture and fact if you want to simulate if you have to have them slave hardware or do not saying you had a they were actually national a yeah you know that would be fixed really easily if

we just bring them in the assassin attempted to assassinate ronald reagan but we're dealing with a situation so we're going to take it out with a drone strike or we are dealing with it know the fact that it's been twenty five or thirty years and we still are dealing with those matters we're saying this simple point if you have a problem with the united states there are puny of ways that you can bring those grievances forward we're. the most open society ever and there you're saying ever president should have the power to say that he's deciding that you're the guy who represents such a threat that easily cited he says that he's going to be judge jury and exhibition reasons why he sits there and here is too short to where it started it started where a much tougher where an article to do is give the president the power to go around article three. first of all the article so re the article three interventions is a relatively modern mansion know that and without over a hundred years or one hundred years you took up to the civil war before you found instances where the court decided that it was their job to intervene in disputes

with foreign nations foreign nationals or any of these things you've got to go and look up your history here the court the federal court so you're saying that it wasn't until the civil war that the that we used judges and juries to determine that people were guilty of crimes should be put to death no i'm saying that it wasn't until then that the courts started arguing that they had a role to decide if the president and the congress that's were working out of national conscience morris there's no evidence as a fact that it's ok it isn't a back no it's not a completely irrelevant facts of fact i'm saying there is a fact that the court is to point to me any place in article one article two the part about the presidency where it says the president can it can order the killing of somebody without a judge without the article three saying so i don't know i leave you i have the other day i'll give you the actual answer a question or as actually it's you know out of the law and that's that is

a it is called the war powers of a are going to want our lawyers on nuclear war and then the executive actually stand with the x. that's a separate issue we do not have and we have the actual instance of the thomas jefferson experience with the barbary pirates where the number one problem was the barbary pirates intercepting our own products as they were being shipped internationally and he acted without. unilaterally without the authority of congress and he took the problem out they singled out people by name they put bounties on them and he and he have been killed and it established the actually that was it was during the adams administration it was john there was a china sensors that on the show not oh you know when i say that i didn't say we have an american so i don't know him and i didn't think of what he said the president now have the authority to make a finding this motion is an enemy of the state and must be removed that is just not true i'm saying that's in article one it's not an article that's not and i handed him his congress to do it but that's the point your original question was the president well actually let's move beyond that as i think we've all established our

positions on this wasn't this really rand paul kicking off his presidential campaign you know i don't know you know now that rand paul is going to pick up the family business he's going to be the kind of kooky crackpot guy on the in the republican party who's perpetually running for president well on the far left par oh i don't a minority in my party in supporting the president in these actions and i think i'm in the majority however with the public on it but mr rand has set off a fairly significant amount of support even some of the old bulls came out to the senate floor to supporting john mccain criticizing him and john mccain on what mr mcconnell don't want mr cornyn they came out and supported him as well unfortunately this isn't the issue i would have made the to get my attention on but he has a vote you want to go back to the locker court like he did when he started rambling in our thirteen i mean they support i have because it was a great political maneuver i mean basically at the end of the day you know to

change the conversation from the g.o.p. being you know against well it was a rant against women and it's a change in the conversation to oh this is what the g.o.p. thins for today and to distract the american public about the other aspect of what the g.o.p. and for it was a great political tactic that's why you thought mcconnell in them going to his during the filibuster mark is a libertarian don't you want. the actual libertarian candidate for president to be as high profile as possible don't you think what rand paul did is a good thing for the libertarians i do i think more and more people are seeing that i'd still think the g.o.p. will move center liberty center liberal instead of center right center libertarian i think that's where it's going i think people like justin ammash will carry on with ron paul is it a good thing it is a good thing i still would favor third parties i still don't i still think to some degree in the g.o.p. you're going to have to to get economic conservatism you're going to have to give up on certain types of social tolerance within the g.o.p. but now is a good thing is he is he watching is twenty sixteen presidential bid absolutely i think so and this was quite a way to do it confirmed today are so meanwhile the republicans in congress sent

a letter to the president saying we're really upset that you're going to cut back on part of obamacare that protects people with preexisting conditions and in fact here's the actual quote the letter read in part we believe allowing those with preexisting conditions access to health insurance is another worthy reason to reprogram these funds with your support we could help these americans get the care they need now this is this is a letter signed by john boehner by eric cantor by kevin mccarthy by you know by a bunch of republicans what what is going on here horace ok you guys always go with this hitler likes milk milk must be evil leave must hate and i don't recall ever having said any of the republicans have never said republicans have never said and neither of conservatives that they hate health care or seeing to it that people have access to it what they have said is the way they just want to be i want to make a buck on the way mr obama said about doing it and obamacare is

a bad idea and they have consistently peppered him with a number of changes and improvements this is no different no this is this is part of obamacare that's going to expire yes i mean were they at in two thousand and nine when you know obama with pushing obamacare you know they were nowhere to be found in support of this and now all of a third because there's a thirteen faction of a test that. yes that's that's going to get undefined bit that's now undefined it we all of us that may want to think like oh oh we're for preexisting conditions because of the most popular item out of obamacare if the item that most of the american public is in favor of and that will benefit the most number of cyclists said just because hitler like milk doesn't mean we are going to get our this is really about republicans figuring out finally that public opinion is in favor of people actually getting health care well i think in general i've i think everybody wants everybody have health care it's how you go about it those that amount of government involvement in i grieve the cole i think they found the one part that people seem to like to meet and they're not risking anything and they've gone after

it i mean any logical opposition to obamacare or for this type of health care program so i don't think they do it really just if you're against it i think you should be against i don't really think you should piecemeal stick with your guns on this i mean maybe this is an improvement to something and and you're sort of only selling yourself this is i mean the letterbox even this is the one part of obamacare that really screws the health insurance companies or is this isn't the purpose as there were a number of just hey there were a number of ideas that were bipartisan ideas that several of us here probably might not have liked that were bipartisan westray she was rejected so they can rule him down our throats the obamacare you should have exactly as they read it and now the republicans are now the republicans are saying oh it's expiring we don't like more of tonight's big picture will.

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of in life nobody's allowed to be driving lessons of emergency vehicles exceptions . well the magnifies the big picture rubble joining me tonight horace cooper expert of the barbary pirates cold war and marc harrold let's get back to it ok the norwegian government said last week it wants to decriminalize the smoking of heroin as a harm reduction measure smoking heroin gets people high but it's less dangerous than injecting you're less likely to overdose and you're less likely to get hiv and city oslo actually in trying to prevent hiv has an injection sites within the city where people can shoot up but sometimes we tried this here in the united states you know portugal did this in there and their rate of of their one usage the rate of drug usage just drops to the floor and call well you know jug used to be legal in that

but at the same time you know what they're trying to do is trying to deal with an epidemic that is going on within their community in terms of hiv being created in terms of overdose and you know they have a large population of folks who are owed. hopefully by doing this it will reduce the mortality rate. if it's a little tricky of an area for me you know not a fan of folks breaking the law but at the same time i do understand why they would try to institute these types of measures are you saying you're not a fan of people using heroin and that fan people just because i guess that. you know we know that there's about you know one or two percent of the population in any country of any people who are going to abuse drugs i mean this is you know it's probably some sort of neurological baseline deficit that just you know lends them toward a large percentage of them get addicted to things like heroin and tobacco and you know historically what we do is we just let them use those drugs you know first hundred fifty years of the history of this country originalists chorus you could be

you could buy heroin in the doing drugs you are in fact it was a brand name of baron comes to help women deal with and for children from across the right over state government in the united states to be able to ban that. it is clearly and unequivocally constitutional now look there's a different question here the wonderful what's good public policy is the wonderful lesson that the europeans show us in so many areas once again some crackpot idea let's let people have access to smoke terrilyn instead of injected heroin if we follow the europeans down that path we follow them down the path once again of a direction that's harmful for our country we're already seeing the spike in marijuana use by teenagers in colorado just after passing the legalization there this is i would rather see teenagers smoking pot either and i'm sure you progressives would love to see nobody and i think any any any physician in america would rather see teenagers smoking pot than drinking alcohol but i don't know you may be going to an amazing we're not i'll bet if you were to pull it off record

well nancy tell me how many people have died last hundred years from marijuana abuse zero fifty thousand people in a year die in a system alcohol that some are already arresting people in seattle for mariana marijuana induced car accident yes driving while high well of course you can regulate behavior the same as the drinking the house there mark i think i'd probably go for this i mean. bottom line is that using drugs doesn't make you a bad person it's a health care problem getting your hands to do it makes you a dumb but doesn't make it a person but we don't regulate people on how smart they are down there is a bad choice hell is a very dangerous drug i'm against heroin use but i think the bottom line here is that you know decriminalizing these things and treat him like the health care problem they are people you're not a bad person you're not a criminal if you sell it to kids if you do conduct like you're on heroin and you crash a plane into a building i mean obviously that conduct should be regulated but this idea that drugs make you bad drugs aren't good or bad they're they affect the nervous system

and human beings people make bad choices to use drugs that are not good for them but don't make a bad person drugs are a health care crisis they're part they're a health care problem and in some ways addicted to heroin they need to be treated like an addict like an alcoholic and this is what i see. well this is never be the majority view is what norway is going to say cannot examine a policy input into how it's a terrible idea and it is an idea that i will say you are like with the government invading people's bedroom government to do and invade most homes to make sure that they're not using heroin wrong make sure they have a body not using heroin at all to make sure that they have a. fire retardant blankets to make sure they want the government to make sure the usera that they do all these are not just for the record you want to go through an exit or be i don't know good use of heroin ok the record washes that every day are you know it's a pain killer more fit there is no good use for recreational use of here ok every for the record you want to be you want big government to be able to prevent people from recreationally using here just because i don't want people to commit suicide doesn't mean that i embrace the progressive agenda for the government you want

every being big government to be everything else i got just saying don and i just want to be clear about it you know what big government when you love big government appearing at the senate banking hearing today yesterday actually senator elizabeth warren grilled officials in the treasury department over why criminal charges speaking of crimes were not filed and speaking of drugs were now filed against officials h.s.b.c. is a british bank that is what it is i think the second largest bank in the world and one of the seven largest banks the united states who helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars from drug cartels here's part of what she had to say. so what i like is you're the experts on money laundering i'd like your opinion what does it take how many billions of dollars do you have to launder for drug lords and how many economic sanctions do you have to violate before. someone who will consider shutting down

a financial institution like this mr colleague all right so you're at the center way that as i said before turbo tax timothy geithner and his buddies are all getting a free ride it was a bad idea to make him secretary of treasury and this administration well as i should the banks i don't think terry geithner had anything to do with it now he has done nothing has anything to do with you know with this drug cartel money there should be criminal charges brought marc we got to know if laws are disparately applied there it in a way is crony capitalism are people getting away with things they shouldn't yes absolutely and i'm strongly opinion drug dealers go to jail drug launderers go to jail horace cooper nicole williams marc harrold thank you all for joining me to do .

today is international women's day it was originally created to celebrate women's economic political and social achievements and since the very first international women's day was celebrated nineteen ten were of a tremendous strides when it comes to political economic and social power just as the all female crew that was on an air france flight from paris to washington today i'm airbus three eighty the world's largest commercial airplane just decades ago the thought of it all female crew pilot in transatlantic flight on the world's biggest airplane would have been inconceivable unfortunately while we would have made great strides across the globe and right here in the united states. there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done according to a new report from the institute for women's policy research the pay gap here in the united states between men and women increased between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve with women making on average one hundred sixty three dollars less per week than men the wage gap between women and men exists for high paying jobs as well and women are also significantly more likely to work in minimum

wage paying jobs there is such a large disparity in the wherry wage gap that a woman's total lifetime earnings last of the wage gap could feed a family of four for thirty seven years this increase in the wage gap is despite the signing of the lilly ledbetter fair pay act by president obama in two thousand and nine which allows individuals who have faced discrimination to seek restitution under federal anti-discrimination laws so we have a lot of work to do when it comes to ensuring that women have equal rights and equal power in our country and that's where who we need to do because men alone are not all that good for the world we need both of us as women get on an equal footing with men of all society prospers for example if women participation in the workforce increased it would do wonders for our economy according to a study by booze and company reason raising female employment to male levels would have a direct impact on g.d.p.

of five percent in the united states even corporations would benefit from empowered women one of the biggest problems with women in the workforce today is that women aren't getting top positions in companies in fact thirty five percent of u.s. companies currently don't even have one single woman on their boards of directors however various studies suggest that gender mix leadership actually helps companies boost their profits one study of similarly sized businesses show that those of the women on their boards actually outperform the ones with only men. what if we encourage more women to be involved in politics right now women make up just about twenty percent of lawmakers in the united states and abroad. when women aren't out in the numbers by men in political office like they are at washington they tend to speak up more about issues affecting the poor and vulnerable like protecting the social safety net research even shows a strong correlation between the number of female elected officials and government and less corruption of power there's a positive effect on government when women break into the so-called old boys club

but what about that growing wage gap what would happen if we brought that wage gap down and did more to make sure that women earn the same as men the average pay disparity between a man and woman in the united states is seventy seven cents on the dollar right now as i mentioned earlier and they make an average of one hundred sixty three dollars less than men each week that's bad news considering the women are increasingly the primary breadwinners in their families this means that as more and more women become primary breadwinners their pay becomes more and more vital for the survival of families and lower pay for women means that that survival was in jeopardy. the level of pay for women isn't just important for their families it's also important for our nation economists suggest that closing the gender pay gap would be the equivalent of a giant economic stimulus which could grow the u.s. economy by three to four percentage points it's clear that women can do amazing

things for our country from boosting our economy to rooting out corruption in government so much debate right now in america about female empowerment centers around women's health and well a woman's right to make her own health this is essential female empowerment shouldn't stop there women need greater access to a quality education identical opportunity to succeed in the workplace and as men and in politics in and in government women have come a long way across the first since the first international women's day in one thousand time when they couldn't even vote in the states and in some states were still legally the property their husbands but now is not the time to take a good enough approach when it comes to female empowerment our country women can save our culture our country and even our planet it's time for men to get out of the way for the good of all of us. after the break a college education is a key to a good job and a happy life or is a deal stevens on tonight's conversations

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