coming up on our t.v. usually you're foreclosed on for missing payments but one florida man says a bank is taking his home for paying his mortgage too early will shine the spotlight on his battle with wells fargo ahead. and has monsanto struck again the federal government wants to know how unapproved genetically modified we've got into an organ cornfield more details on that later in the show. just days after president obama's speech on u.s. counterterrorism tactics he launched yet another deadly drone strike inside of pakistan so what does this mean for his drone policy moving forward we'll explore that issue later in today's show.

it's thursday may thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. lopez and your watching our t.v. . well homeowners be warned paying your mortgage bill early might be just as bad as paying it late that's what one florida man discovered this month when he found out that his home was in the process of being foreclosed on and slide or says that he never missed a mortgage payment last year wells fargo approached this walt disney world bus driver and offered him a temporary loan modification the agreement was that if paid his modified loans on time for four months that modification would become permanent he said that he not only paid his loans early but that he owns r.k. them wells fargo says that he was violating the fine print of the payment guidelines by paying them early for more on this case and a bigger look at the state of banks i'm joined now by attorney lomaia henry who represents etienne slider thank you so much for joining me wells fargo has called this an extremely isolated incident should we take this bank at its word.

i don't know i don't have any idea i hope this is not happening now i sure know we contacted wells fargo about the case and a bank representative sent us this statement saying quote when our customers face financial difficulty we look at all of the available options to help them stay in their homes if attempts to meet the approved requirements for one program are not available we will look for others and mr sile divorce case we have been able to find an option that will allow him to maintain home ownership when borrowers face challenges paying their mortgages it's important for them to continue talking to and working with their lender is to explore every possible opportunity for assistance for example when wells fargo customers began working with and communicating with us in their first six months of financial hardship we were able to help seven out of ten customers of void foreclosure so does this seem to

adequately address your client's concerns. well let me say first i don't know that this has been told but prior to this whole modification issue this is still there what's not behind them is more a future payments were current there were no deficiencies never made a late payment he just happened to receive a letter from wells fargo agreeing to extend a loan modification and previously had been out of work for over two years so when he saw this paperwork lowering his mortgage he thought it was a great idea for him to take advantage of this opportunity now wells fargo says that the fact that this man paid early and more then he violated the terms of their contract why would a bank being upset about someone paying only how does this cut into the bank's profits you know i just don't know i thought the whole goal of of the banks extending my people was to get paid back and not only did he pay them back but you

paid them back early i cannot rationalize why he would be penalized for paying or only now did the bank offer at the chance to pay the money on time to go back to their original schedule or anything like that before they decided to foreclose on him or start the process of foreclosing on him no actually mr stilled or signed the permanent loan modification documents to go back to wells fargo made his first came there and then when it was time for the banks to. the second payment from his bank account they never did that and so he could not get and he couldn't get an answer for them as so why they would not take the payments the next correspondence that you received from the bank was a letter notifying him that his case was being sent to an attorney to start the foreclosure process now as his lawyer what's been your impression of the legal team over at wells fargo i mean are you outgunned. well i'm just

a small solo practitioner and i don't have the resources then wells fargo yes but his smile that wells fargo will bait the situation right and what is the next step in your client's case in order for wells fargo to make this right what we are talking to will so far will hopefully get walked out without a permit modification for mr still adore it so that he can just go on with life he wants the maintenance payments and he just wants that piece of on my own knowing that his house will not be taken away from him now obviously he's gotten quite a bit of attention from the media both local and national how is the media attention in this case actually affected the way wells fargo is treating your client or has it well i think that it has because this lawsuit innocent pending quite some time and it wasn't until after the media attention that we actually heard from wells fargo and very interesting thank you so much for joining us

attorney lomaia henry she represents. torgan now where a federal probe has been launched to find out how way genetically modified strain of wheat began sprouting up in a local farm genetically modified wheat has never been approved by the agriculture department for use in the u.s. monsanto tested version of its roundup ready wheat between one thousand nine hundred eight and two thousand and five but were tracked of its application from the u.s.d.a. is regulatory approval process so imagine the eastern oregon farmer surprise when he discovered that this wheat was growing on his farm to discuss this federal probe and the financial implications of this discovery and what it could actually how it could affect the wheat market i'm joined now by andy step steffanie and he's the cofounder of sparrow media dot net andy thank you for coming into and talking to us first of all talk about g.m.o. wheat why was it never approved for use and what is the significance of this

discovery in the organ field. well monsanto is applied on several occasions for various products various crops to be genetic meal modified or prepared as roundup ready to run in conjunction with the system of herbicides that they also put out on market now they did not do this with we because canada turned around i believe in two thousand and five and said the european union as well as japan would not allow for imports of wheat that could be contaminated with genetically modified organisms and therefore threaten the economic. products that we're now producing to send to those countries and so for that decision alone is why they no longer decided to approve these products for market is kind of questionable that now you know over seven years later they're appearing in the wild people's farms now as a result you have spoken a little bit about this the economic impact as a result of this discovery we futures drop point five percent today and japan has stopped imports until the problem is investigated and dealt with so it's hurting

our economy it's eroding international trust in our products what does this say about the a potential impacts that monsanto and biotech businesses can house on the country. well it's tremendous and it kind of speaks to a larger hypocrisy in certain lawmaking bodies will favor businesses that they're in line with or businesses that lobby them over the economic incentive in economic prosperity of our country and so their constituency should be the american people it shouldn't be an individual corporation louis missouri like monsanto and so monsanto along with many other organizations have lobbied significantly throughout the years members of congress and also in local states to get legislation that has their interests so there was a spending bill recently this year that introduced a piece of legislation that would not require labeling of genetically modified foods because the imposition would create for monsanto and that is something about

fast tracking their products to market it's favoring the business when almost all of americans would like to at least know where their food is coming from where their food is sourced and especially folks in europe are particularly bothered by the idea of having these g.m.o. products now mixed into the market and that's not to mention the so-called month of protection act that made its way into the agriculture appropriations bill now let's touch the conversation just a little bit meanwhile in north carolina journalists will potter discovered a new proposed legislation that would make it illegal for whistleblowers to expose all corporations including monsanto and how they could potentially affect the environment and public health we've talked about agag laws in the past but can you briefly explain for our viewers what an ag ag law is and whether or not this proposed legislation qualifies as one. well potter has worked tirelessly to bring the issue of agag laws to the forefront he's done that through his blog green is

the new red dot com i encourage everyone to go there and view multiple stories related to ag gag but in a sense the ag gag bills were penned by the american legislative exchange council there were a model bill that was passed on from state to state and different states have appropriated either all or pieces of these gag legislations that essentially say that if you blow the whistle on a factory farm that's a brutally abusing animals in the case of some factory farms chickens being abused or down cows being moved with backhoes and other types of heavy machinery if you videotape this if you photograph it if you blow the whistle on these corporations and thus resulting in these corporations being brought up on municipal charges what'll happen is that you could be charged underneath these ag gag laws and the penalties vary from state to state because they're state bills but in north carolina in particular the language is so broad that it could say that if you're doing this with any company not just an animal enterprise not just a factory farm but if say monsanto if you blew the whistle on monsanto you could be

charged as a felon for reporting on their misconduct so andy yes or no is this one part of an ag law. well because the american legislative exchange council pens what they call model legislation states adopt either all or part of it so the language of the bill is inserted into a larger bill imagine as a bundle there's eight different things in the bundle one of the eight things is analogous to all the other states gag legislation so i would go as far as saying that what is going on in north carolina is an gag bill it's bundled with other things it's masked it's veiled but it's an ag gag bill and the language there is even worse because it's more overbroad and again check out green is the new red dot com in the reading of will potter because he's covering this extensively and we have a very short amount of time left but what is the chance of this bill actually getting through we've seen one after another of these and gag bills be struck down or repealed. it's really hit or miss i think that there's been

a tremendous public outcry in part to the work of will and the humane society united states mercy for animals and compassion over killing they have really brought this issue to the forefront and solicited mainstream support from individuals like carrie underwood when she tweeted out governor hell some that resulted in the bill to be repealed in tennessee but unfortunately it's on the books in iowa and in other states india to india is also extensive but it's been struck down we need to make sure that this happens in every single state and it doesn't keep popping back up unfortunately the world of these lobbyists they're going to keep hacking away at it to make sure that their money's lieschen because their clients are going to have to leave it there and they step on and co-founder of the sparrow media dot net thanks so much. well it was the first drone strike that the u.s. can conducted since president obama's national security speech now pakistani officials as well as the taliban have confirmed that the drone hit its mark while

the air read on was the pakistani net taliban's number two commander and six others were killed in the strike he was accused of helping coordinate the two thousand and nine suicide bombing on a us base in afghanistan that killed seven americans as well as hundreds of bombings and shootings across pakistan without missing a beat the pakistani taliban announced today that it has chosen a new deputy commander to replace its deceased deputy restaurant successor is thirty eight year old khan site he was allegedly involved in a two thousand and eleven attack on the pakistani naval base in karachi where eighteen people were killed as well as the two thousand and eleven jailbreak where some hundred four hundred militants in its actually escaped so what really came out of this drone strike did the president follow the guidelines that he laid out on thursday to help me break this all down i'm joined now by marcy wheeler she's an investigative reporter at the wheel dot net marcy let's start off by talking about this most recent drone strike what did it accomplish and did the president follow

his own guidelines. the president actually did although only if you look at the fine print in his speech in it he actually said well the afghan theater is exempt from all these rules and will be exempt until we withdraw from afghanistan so what he was a what he was you know whatever rules they have imposed and it's not at all clear what rules they have imposed. don't apply a stunt so the cia will still run the pakistani strikes the cia can still do signature strikes in pakistan and can still strike people as they did in this strike the pakistani taliban who are technically our enemies there pakistan's enemies based on the logic that were preventing the pakistani taliban from letting troops rush across the border into afghanistan or hurt our own troops but marcy in that same speech he also said that it would only attack al qaeda and its associated

forces and that they would rather detain them and that they would respect state sovereignty so is it true really what you just said that he is abiding by what he said and that just because it's outside of the afghan theater of that kind of negates everything else right i mean you know it's not of fighting by the rules about state sovereignty one of the really interesting things about this strike is that. it's clear the pakistani military i.s.i. their intelligence services would approve of the strike because they've been going after the pakistani taliban for a long time but as mcclatchy reported i think we're really good wrap up on this what it did do is no i sharif who just was elected in pakistan have been talking about making peace with the pakistani taliban and sense the strike the pakistani taliban have said no peace talks are off and so when we talk about sovereignty are we just talking about the military in a country that is

a stone simply of democracy because that's what it looks like with regards to the strike. and something new and something very interesting to bring up it during this talks of pakistan and possible reconciliation with the pakistani taliban is that right mom was said to be the one that was really trying to push for this reconciliation with the afghani with the pakistani government excuse me but beyond that i want to play a part of president obama's speech from last thursday here is him talking about how these strikes have haunted him for me and those in my chain of command those deaths will haunt us as long as we live just as we are haunted by the civilian casualties that have occurred throughout conventional fighting in afghanistan and iraq. but as commander in chief i must weigh these heartbreaking tragedies against the alternatives to do nothing in the face of

terrorist networks would invite far more civilian casualties so here we hear the president talking about how tough of a decision every each and every single one of these drone strikes as this most recent one had six other people killed some of them or in the taliban some of them were not and we have seen a reduction in the number of drone strikes this year what should we make of this is this the obama administration changing its ways or is it just still very early in the year. well i mean i think what obama's just trying to sell us on on drone strikes it's the argument that harold koh has been making which is we're going to strike you know the you know in his speech obama also talked about maybe we should be putting more money into into support but you know ultimately what the speech was about was trying to sell us on the drone strikes he's already he's already engaged in as the most humane option because we're not going to talk about nonmilitary options and so on that basis it's not clear that much is going to change anytime

soon and finally marcy we have a short amount of time left but the president in the speech has said that there will be more transparency when it comes to drone strikes now the white house has not said anything in terms of this drone strike actually having taken place in terms of anime actually being killed so are we seeing that transparency or should we expect it in the future we're not seeing transparency what we're seeing is a lift of a very fluid rules with some giant copy outs that you could drive you know twelve drones through and you know the administration still doesn't want i mean they're not being transparent about the pakistani strike they're not being transparent about winning gauge and if they're not being transparent about the rules so i'm not holding my breath for more real transparency well we know this isn't the first strike that has happened in pakistan this year there are banned thirteen others and it certainly won't be the last marcy wheeler investigative reporter with empty wheel dot net. u.s. attorney general eric holder is running short on friends these days he certainly

hasn't had any luck with republicans since the fast and furious mexican gunrunning scandal democrats are also distancing themselves from the attorney general in light of the fact that the d.o.j. was monitoring journalists phone calls and that holder not only knew about the d.o.j. media monitoring but that he is the one who signed off on it he also lost the media support as a result numerous news organizations have turned down and off the record meeting with the attorney general today to discuss the justice department's guidelines on governing security leak investigations that involve reporters c.n.n. the associated press the new york times rotors and the huffington post all refused to participate in that meeting so long as it was held off the record and that doesn't bode well for the man trying to revamp his reputation within the press political commentator sam sachs takes a look at eric holder who no one's wants to be related with. with regard to the

potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material that is not something that. i have ever been involved in heard of or would think would be a wise policy that was eric holder on may fifteenth and is not a week later news broke that holder was directly involved in the prosecution of the press personally approving a search warrant against fox news reporter james rosen house republicans are now looking into whether or not holder lied under oath holder is survived previous controversies including being censured by the house of representatives in two thousand and twelve but this time it was fifty years attorney general of the united states is under more pressure than ever and there are three reasons why you might not be on the job much longer reason one suppression of the press holder's investigation of james rosen may be the most egregious example but it's really just the latest in a long string of attacks on the press thank you holder's department of justice carried out in an unprecedented subpoena of the associated press collecting phone

records from twenty offices affecting more than one hundred reporters but eric holder has been most aggressive in going after sources going after whistleblowers department of justice has prosecuted six whistleblowers under the espionage act that's more than during any other presidential administration in history one of those whistleblowers former cia officer john kiriakou who exposed torture talked about the d.o.j. just chilling effect on the press turning lists will tell you that their national security sources have just dried up since my prosecution i think that's what the government's point was i think i think this case is much bigger than just john kiriakou it goes to freedom of speech and freedom of the press and i think there's a there's a real war on free speech right now kiriakou is now in jail serving a thirty month sentence which brings us to the second reason why it might be time for holder to go. prosecutorial overreach in january of this year internet activist

aaron swartz killed himself as he was facing several charges of computer fraud and abuse carrying with them a thirty five year prison sentence aaron's family blames overly aggressive d.o.j. prosecutors for hounding aaron to death and then there are the current prosecutions of internet hacktivists jeremy hammond and bear brown both could be facing wildly disproportionate prison sentences for the crimes they've committed. plus the d.o.j. is currently fighting a four year lawsuit by you of trying to privacy information center demanding to know if holder's d.o.j. illegally surveilled on wiki leaks supporters and of course there's holder's overzealous prosecution of drug violations conducting roughly two hundred raids and nine medical marijuana states resulting in at least sixty one federal indictments since two thousand and nine these actions alienate people in the left and the right side of the spectrum leaving holder with very few friends and while the department of justice has been so eager going after activists and whistleblowers and marijuana

users and putting them in jail for a very long time they've been less enthusiastic going after real criminals which brings us to reason number three dereliction of duty by this month's protesters camped out in front of the department of justice in washington d.c. demanding to know why eric holder hasn't put one suit in jail for foreclosure fraud yet also despite throwing john kiriakou the guy who blew the whistle on torture in jail holder has refused to charge anyone in the bush administration for committing torture or any other war crime so today holder is in trouble and if he does end up resigning it won't be just because of this latest controversy with james rosen in the press but it will be because of a long history of missteps a history of siding with the strong over the weak and a history of skewing the rule of law itself in america and washington sam sachs r

t let's turn now celeste information coming out of florida where the f.b.i. has now revealed that law enforcement officials shot and killed an unarmed man that they were questioning that's according to the w a s a steve a local news station twenty seven year old iraqi into lachelle boy shot six times by police on may twenty second while police officers were questioning him over his connection to a triple homicide that happened back in two thousand and eleven todashev was also close friends with the boston marathon bombing suspect tom are long time i have r t international correspondent were in a port in iowa brings us the newest information from this case. at the time of the shooting up to half a dozen law enforcement officials including two massachusetts state police troopers and an f.b.i. agent from the agency's boston division were present at the florida condo which was not far from universal studios but the f.b.i. has provided few details after the shooting saying that the matter is being investigated by a specific f.b.i. review team and the f.b.i.

may not finish its probe for several months now the f.b.i. meanwhile has been under enormous scrutiny for missing several warnings about tomorrow on starting the biggest warnings coming from a russian intelligence officials years ago indicating that tomorrow on certain i may have links to extremist groups the f.b.i. for whatever reasons did not follow up and probe the matter to of the fullest extent and that some would say led to the execution of the boston marathon double bombings and now we have this development unfolding where a man that was shot and killed by f.b.i. agents turns out according to the washington post to have been on the arm so clearly the f.b.i. is going to have a lot of questions to answer in the coming days with these new developments on this story that was our to international correspondent marina. and the details around

this case have been murky at best even the reasons why the f.b.i. was questioning even told us in the first place are questionable sources close to the case say that he was also being questioned over the knowledge of the boston bombing our sister station r.t. international had a chance to speak with civil rights attorney. about the shooting of. and she says that we might never get the full story on sometimes anything related to national security. so i would be surprised if. the investigation's beyond there find me. in some very basic facts but again the less they reveal to the public the more likely the public will not believe the governor or in objective investigation so. my initial. intuition is that we're not going to know very much beyond what their findings are but if it's

an independent investigation there may be a higher likelihood that it be more transparent and so it's really about trying to bolster the legitimacy of making sure that the outcome in fact reflects the suits that was civil rights attorney. and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we cover and go to you tube dot com slash r t america check out our website our to dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at mag and underscore lopez stay tune prime interest is up next and i'll be right back here at five pm with more news and in-depth interviews.

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