well back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour scientists have made one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind and tonight's science will tell you about the discovery of a particle the broad many answers to some of the greatest mysteries of our universe and according to republicans voter fraud is an avid aren't running around put across a lot of states but that's the case i sit next to impossible to find an actual case of voter fraud. we found a few i'll tell you all about it in that i still eat it. all give me your take my take a live the phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make

a comment ask your question live on the air give us a call it to a two nine zero four twenty one thirty four so our first caller the night is kimberly in wars ville indiana kimberly thanks for calling. i hate how my kind of question for you you know back in the day. i believe the government was afraid of j.p. morgan not meant well but it's our and you know standard oil and if you're going to antitrust i'm not real super clear about it other than. the it would anti-monopoly it so i'm kind of wondering if you can speak to why we're in this huge map right now you know i'd be glad to and thanks for the call kimberly back in the late nineteenth century after that after the civil war lincoln had given away millions and millions of acres and hundreds in today's dollars it would be hundreds of billions of dollars worth of land and cash to the railroads so they could build an infrastructure that would help him win the war and you end up with five major

rail monopolies those real monopolies emerge in the eight hundred seventy s. by the eight hundred nine hundred ninety s. then we had steel monopolies oil monopolies. andrew carnegie was steel john d. rockefeller with oil and and and rockefeller was particularly famous for this has been books written about how he would he would conspire with the local railroad to refuse and they would refuse to carry kerosene or oil products of his competitors he'd run into his competitors out of business and they'd buy them up or drop the price run him out of business and buy them up and he was doing this he was based out of ohio when he was doing this and the state of ohio actually made it illegal and senator sherman from ohio made a made a federal law out of this a fact too without going into a whole long story about john d. rockefeller that was the sherman antitrust act originally proposed one hundred eighty one and finally passed one nine hundred ninety s. and it really got in force in the early one thousand nine hundred by teddy

roosevelt and by republican both republicans and then by president after and the last time it was used was by jimmy carter ultimately to break up a t. and t. nixon started that process. but reagan when he came into office he said we're not going to enforce the sherman act anymore we're not going to stop these giant trusts you know other than for some something just totally agree just and that's why you no longer have small locally owned businesses in your local strip malls in your downtowns and because not any president not one single president since reagan including obama has decided to start enforcing the sherman antitrust act it's still on the books by the way so i think that we need to bring it back where you started forcing thanks for the call james in vero beach hey james you want to talk about gun violence. james you're on the air. yeah can you hear me yes sir ok here what about to go viral with the dog or anybody tribute in you to the oh holy world road yeah go there they also militarized the civilian

police sector i mean the most beautiful i think you're right and james thanks for the for the call and for pointing that out and something that needs to be talked about more i don't think that the main driver of gun violence is the is the is the war on drugs i think what that's doing is it's destroying hundreds of thousands of lives it's putting a lot of people in prison on necessarily the private prison industry is loving at the drug testing industries loving at the police industry as it were as loving it but the just you know the fact of the matter is if there's more guns around there's going to be more gun violence around in that in those studies or in. an a in palm springs california you want to talk about high taxation yeah well you know you want a radio this morning and there was a fellow that you were talking to it. does beat him a lot about double taxation yeah and you were saying i just want to bring up the fact that when it will be a great day factor it can get the rain that could double taxation to fill i don't

know what he's brought he did that. with the capital gains taxes double taxation well everything is double taxation yeah i've seen a group. ana ana thank you for calling in making that point that was peter ferrara and he you know he's kind of a regular on a radio show and what he said and this is the argument that conservatives have been making for years and years is that people like mitt romney and paris hilton who get most of their money from dividend you know the words they own stock in the companies declare dividends and they pass that money out to their stockholders when when you earn your living from dividends you don't pay social security tax on it it is a graduated income tax you pay on it so if you're a small investor you don't typically paid much tax at all very little but if you're like mitt romney or paris hilton you pay up to a maximum right now of twenty percent and they're all saying that they should pay nothing mitt romney's tax rate not should not be twenty percent should be zero and the rationale that they use is that the corporation had declared you know the

dividend came out of a profit they had to declare the profit they had to pay tax on the profit and then they distributed the dividend and therefore it's already been taxed and you shouldn't tax it again when that dividend goes to the stockholders which is utter nonsense it's amazing that americans have bought this reagan didn't buy this by the way in one thousand nine hundred six he set the capital gains rate and the ordinary income rate together at the same rate was twenty eight percent but he set them together right now if you've got if you work for a living up to thirty nine percent tax rate if you sit in your blood around the pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive in the mail your maximum tax rate is twenty percent and it's just wrong it's and in the point that i made is you know i get a paycheck i've paid taxes on that money i go into a store and buy something i'm paying sales taxes on that double taxation or if i hire an employee and i'm paying them maybe i shouldn't have to pay taxes on their income. maybe they shouldn't have to pay taxes because that money's already been taxed like all money has already been taxed it's just you know it's like you know

all water has been digested by a fish some point it's that's the way it is a stupid argument maggot in jackson new jersey hey meghan what's up dad thank you so much i'm. love your show great job i. am new to r.p. but i watch it constantly i love everything that you guys you know we speak up for it it's a great mortgage should be mandatory for all public for all the citizens to at least hear at least once a day. i just wanted to touch base on a couple things that i have heard a brief things on the documentaries that you've done and and other people that. that you often have on your show i'm in in new jersey where at the taxes is outrageous and we have chris christie who is basically you know you know raised all this money and toured all over the place to run and raise money for the republicans and you know the basically the corporate takeover the slaves minimum wage will

slave wages and the proper term the elderly the vietnam vets are not the vietnam vets but gets them to by one event we. are doing an absolute this service to. were doing an absolute his service to all the people in the country i mean it's it's quite upsetting to see exactly what's going on. we got rid of cable t.v. we have the bare minimum so thank god we found your station and a couple other ones we got democracy now but i listen to w b i i which is on ninety nine point five f.m. in new york city and it is a complete non profit you know i got to show meghan i got i got i have to move along but you know thank you for the call thank you for your comments i agree with you that the american middle class is being devastated and as i was talking to

congress and i'll get a few minutes ago it's being done by the republicans because they think a stable society is a better society and what's more stable than having everybody for him in s. going to veto california you want. to talk about syria. yeah or if i'm going to say about the middle east i am from middle east we used we used to the people there was against the government you have. control of the whole ball now what's going on now. the situation about to syria that's against iran everybody knows and all the unite at a time up and so would be against syria now is that our pushing you know i do want them to. you know. again.

not a. great day today. and then again they become forever. i mean a very my. thank you for the call. the syrian situation is a complex one the one takeaway for me of all this what's going on in the middle east and frankly around the world is that the successful revolutions of the last hundred years india south africa egypt the successful revolutions have been violent. that. there are so many layers of complexity and shades of nuance in these things. i'm really reluctant to do bumper sticker responses to. will new jersey talk about the g.o.p. . sure to. actually shed a radical. as you know republican party show at

a charge not to draw a rabbit but i just start it would be great if we could have some of the congress. get rid of the bombs in the lobby and now i don't need a new congress to do that scott all you have to do is pass a constitutional amendment that says the supreme court was wrong and the corporations are not people and the money is not speech and you can read on the right on agree with their thank you scott and you can read all about that over a move to amend dot org and in fact you can start a local organization a local chapter as it were. and you know invite people over get this thing on talk to your local elected representatives doug in staten island a douglas talk capital gains. yes sir thanks very much. to him and amen to that lesson on the capital gains corporate governance my understanding is that when they passed this new when obama got the grieving on four hundred million or more that

it's supposed to bring in a certain amount of money but my understanding is that a lot of these guys such fund managers and such are going to hide this by by. by covering a salary under are some sort of sort of i want some sort of a nomenclature interest the i was one of if you give us an authorial i'm not carried out there it's just carried interest is a fancy truly it would be it was created in the tax code that a bank can use it's almost exclusively used in wall street to basically convert what should be earned income into what is tax to the cap capital gains rate and that's why all these guys who are making billions of dollars on wall street are paying a maximum twenty percent income tax rate and it's wrong that's it for your take my take a live thank you for all your calls if we didn't get your call tries back next week . coming up you have a better chance of being killed by a t.v. falling on your head than you do find a case of voter fraud in america republicans continue to insist the voter fraud is

a very real and a problem all across the country why i tell you that i'm still. wealthy british style. market. was really happening to the global economy with my ex because there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines .

so. it's thursday so let's get geeky on the god particle last summer researchers at the european organization for nuclear research or cern announced that they may have found the answer to the universe or an answer to the universe a subatomic particle known as the exact bosun or the god particle today physicists announce that they are fairly certain that the particle they discovered last summer is in fact the higgs bosun or that god particle joe incandela a physicist who heads one of the two main teams at cern that each involve about three thousand scientists said referring to the discovery that to me it is clear that we are dealing with a higgs bosun although we still have a long way to go to know what kind it is joining me now via skype from switzerland

to talk more about the discovery and its implications for our understanding the universe is dr robert roser director of scientific computing division at the u.s. department of energy's fermi lab dr roeser welcome back to the program i thank you for having me first of all am i pronouncing the higgs bosun correctly i've read it many many times i'm not sure i've ever heard it said out loud by somebody who really knew what it was and if you're doing it perfect none of us really know what it is so well we're going to get it ok so what is the higgs bosun and why is it called the god particle. but he's both is is a particle or a an idea that there could be a particle a. theory is correct we describe mass in the basic building blocks of nature what is unique you know we understand the mass of the chair i'm sitting in at the table that my lab is sitting on because that's just chemistry that's understanding how mass of protons and neutrons and electrons once you know

about is the binding energy and of a god as number you can calculate it but we don't know was why your probe has the basket it does and its constituent quirks that make up that the mass that they do so this particle would allow us to explain that so. what i what i learned in physics was that an atom for example made up a proton neutron an electron or made up plural in most cases except for was a hydrogen. that that they mostly empty space but that the even the individual particles you know made up of masons and corks and all these other these smaller things that that those things are made up of something else even smaller are we talking about getting to the finest particle possible between you know that's kind of the bridge between energy and matter is that is that what

this is at the moment we corks are the most elementary particles but that's not to say that there's not something that makes up a cork we look and see no evidence that there's anything that make up but still what can be determined if you will right so the what's the significance of the higgs bows on in relation to the mass of a proton or you know anything in a new trial or try any subatomic particle. so let's just take a simple analogy let's say that you want to walk into a cocktail party in the washington d.c. area ok so so you being a big t.v. celebrity people recognize you when they come talk to you and want to want to want to want to interact with you nobody knows who the heck i am right and so what you can imagine the cocktail party as behave. and you want particles and our

popularity is our mass and so the use in to interact we're strong with that cocktail party that i do are more massive that that i am and so what and that's exactly how it works the individual particles that go through the universe we interact that is terminating everything and how strong is a couple that feels indicates how massive they are so is the higgs field we're talking about a higgs bows on is this a particle or is it a field is it energy it is the answer is yes to both of those depending on how you look at it the problem or the difficulty with understanding some of this stuff is that when i have to let our everyday classical sense of how the world works and put it on a shelf and use our imagination because we're talking about the quantum mechanical

world where we have to take into account einstein's famous equation in and traveling the speed of light in relativity and all of that with a little bit more complicated. what what what is the significance of this to to the rest of science and is this is this for example going to change. something like you know quantum computing and they either are there implications for this beyond the theoretical. well i have two answers to that first of all about one hundred years ago a little bit more than that they discovered the electron right the day after the electron was discovered nobody thought when i would be talking sky. and communicating through these through this or we're getting our homes when they're lighting it so it's a little unfair to ask science is you know shortly after they've discovered something whether it's practical implications but that i think the standard model which is what we call it that describes the fundamental particles and forces that

make up our universe is perhaps the greatest intellectual achievement of the twentieth century and we need something like the hague bosun or something else to describe mass to complete that understanding so this is validating the standard model. well i mean it doesn't it's adding a piece to it i don't know if i want to say validating because you know there's still maybe more that we don't know yet. saying that this is the end of the of the equation is being a little bit. cheeky if you where i understand dr rose or thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me.

the republicans have finally found voter fraud and in ohio no less for years republicans have been putting laws in place all across the united states in an effort to combat what they say is rampant voter fraud massive problem since two thousand and one nearly a thousand bills that would tighten voting laws have been introduced in forty six states and since two thousand and eleven twenty four voting restrictions have gone into effect in seventeen states including battleground states like florida ohio and pennsylvania thirty four states of introduce laws requiring voters to show photo id since just since two thousand and eleven and in two thousand and eight nearly two point two million registered voters did not vote because they didn't have the proper id required by the laws in their states of that but don't be fooled by all of these laws because they have absolutely nothing to do with fighting voter fraud

and they have everything to do with keeping typically democratic party voters away from the polls just ask maine republican party chairman charlie webster who was shocked that i don't watch and a twenty twelve dozens of black people showed up to vote in some parts of rural maine they would dozens and dozens of black people who came in about election day everybody has a right to vote but nobody in town knows me but it's black how did it happen i don't know we're going to find out i think it turns out there were actually black people or according to the brennan center for justice the top five demographic groups that lack a valid photo id or this. blacks twenty five percent asians twenty latino's nineteen percent young college age students eighteen to twenty four year olds and seniors and not surprisingly those are all portions of the populace population the electorate that democrats typically win and republicans typically

lose. the white guys down here that the republicans typically when they got plenty id so this doesn't have anything to do a stopping voter from but don't tell that to republicans in ohio or across the country who to this day are still positive that america has zero and are rampant cases of voter fraud that as senator john mccain said two thousand and eight are destroyed the fabric of our mockers. on monday the prosecutor's office in hamilton county ohio announced voter fraud charges against three big bill including a nun according to the prosecutor's office the nun sister margaret clues lived with sister rosemarie here wouldn't tell you its death in october of two thousand and twelve he would request an absentee ballot for the november election in the ballot arrived in the mail just days after she died clews allegedly filled it out forged to its signature and mailed it back of course a voter fraud is illegal and a sister close did in fact commit voter fraud. whew should probably be held

accountable for actions but is finding one person who allegedly committed voter fraud really worth knocking over two million people off the voting rolls between two thousand and two thousand and ten there were six hundred forty nine million votes cast in general elections and only thirteen credible cases of voter fraud in comparison during that same period of time there were forty seven thousand u.f.o. sightings reported in the united states and four hundred forty one americans were killed by lightning strikes legitimate cases of voter fraud in this country are extraordinarily rare in fact you have a better chance of dying from a t.v. falling on your head and you do a fine in a case of voter fraud and states that have introduced voter suppression ideal laws are having a very hard time now fighting actual cases of voter fraud to justify those laws indiana was the first state to implement a photo id law in an attempt to cut down on so-called cases of voter fraud indiana's precedent setting lot made its way to the supreme court and when it was

argued the state was not able to cite even one single specific instance of voter fraud in the entire history of the state of indiana in support of a voter i.d. law for his state kansas secretary of state chris go back cited two hundred twenty one incidents of so-called voter fraud between one nine hundred ninety seven and two thousand and ten in his state but as it turns out of those two hundred twenty one incidents there were only seven actual convictions and none of them were related to impersonating voters. let's move to wisconsin a state the republican party chairman reince priebus once claimed was absolutely riddled with voter fraud sorry rids in two thousand and four wisconsin's voter fraud rate was zero point zero zero zero zero two percent or just seven votes it's clear that instead of being a rampant republic the republicans claim voter fraud is virtually nonexistent and matter how hard you work course this isn't that big a surprise to most of us because we've known that claims about rampant voter fraud

have been false all along according to a study conducted by the brennan center for justice in new york many of the claims of voter fraud amounted to a great deal of smoke without much fire most allegations of fraud turned out to be baseless and that of the few allegations remaining most trivial election real irregularities in other forms of election misconduct rather than fraud by individual voters the type of individual voter fraud supposedly targeted by recent legislative efforts especially efforts to require certain forms of voter id simply does not exist millions of taxpayer dollars have been and will continue to be spent on these vote republican voter suppression schemes unless we bring an end to them it's time to finally put this right wing wide of bed and ensure that every american who has the ability to vote is able to do so and that's the way it is that i thursday march fourteenth two thousand and thirteen your it.

let me let me go one wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this board is what we have in the bank we have i know you see. the issue is this you think it's a bad thing there's again we're in a situation where being i don't mean to talk about the surveillance. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down here the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. d.c.

it is going to pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout what's been like nobody's laundry driving license of emergency vehicles there are exceptions.