it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinct. oh oh oh oh oh ok they come they didn't know. i want to spend the whole first half of the show on something the mainstream media won't touch with a ten foot pole which is actually a lot of stories i mean in fact this is c.n.n. storage facility filled with eleven foot poles they used to just keep the real news

stories a brain and here's jake tapper using one to keep away an anti factory farm protester . not cool taps not cool but tonight let's talk about the fact that there was no russian hack of the d.n.c. server last year. it's one of those it's one of those who love the lovely miss big thought or the loch ness monster or a threesome that doesn't leave someone crying. to me. and i want to go through the proof that there was no hack instead it was a leak from inside the d.n.c. i look you don't need to believe me ok in fact don't don't believe me why would you believe a lousy good for nothing comedian who in high school failed out a whole room. why would you put everything on the ballot to tell you. is not coming

from me i cannot stress this enough it's coming from a nation magazine article quoting a group of forensic investigators intelligence analysts systems designers program architects and computer scientists all of long experience and strongly credentials basically people whose job titles alone give me a stroke. the group is called veteran intelligence professionals for sanity v.i.p.'s and they were founded in two thousand and three when they came forward to say there was no proof of weapons of mass destruction in iraq in fact the aluminum rods the media kept pointing to as proof of w m d were actually the eleven foot aluminum poles they used to keep the truth they. were. the i p s now has thirty members coming from the n.s.a. the cia i.b.m. and more none of them are dirty dirty russians who want to eat your buy

a vase. these guys are patriots who yes want to eat your babies but it's. simply because baby meat is a delicacy i mean it's. nothing to do with russia. so you could doubt me you can hate me you can you can think i'm i'm i'm under intelligent and over harry and i say soon. after you're done thinking all those things you should realize that this info is not coming from a. so you don't recall. you were called in june twelfth of last year julian astonished announced that wiki leaks would publish documents pertaining to hillary clinton's campaign three days later a hacker named cooter for two point zero appeared and took responsibility for the hack and posted documents online that contained russian language aka the language of the devil. on july twenty second wiki leaks began publishing documents that

showed that the d.n.c. and hillary clinton were corrupt to an almost laughable degree the maze through media call assess the situation and gave a very measured and in-depth analysis. you would see that the president did cyber attack ordered by c.u. russian leadership the russians attacked our electoral system with russia meddling in the election russia's election meddling the russian government was behind the mail hacked into the democratic national committee russia act but the election they tried to interfere the russian attack on our election. or they made heath ledger's joker look like a meditation tape of ocean sounds. a lot of battle inside a sleeping baby bird. they furiously use gallons of ink and i are to talk about the

supposed source of the leak rather than talk about the actual proven corruption it would be like if your house were on fire and rather than talk about how to put it out how to save the people inside how to prevent. fires you stood there going right . good player but dude you're at your house the perfect gal and i'm your prize. ok ok just take a breath or i will go get a drink will stored all those to rise as far. out here are the main three points put forward by the intelligence and computer analysts who are not me number one there was no hack of the d.n.c. system on july fifth last year not by the russians not by anyone else hard science now demonstrates it was a leak a download executed locally with a portable data storage device so basically there was someone in the d.n.c.

with access to the computer system ok here's russia. here's the d.n.c. headquarters notice that russia is not inside the d.n.c. you were. in fact very far apart. number of carinthia canalis of documents by the person known as good for two point zero show that they were fraudulent but for good or for posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had russian as its default language group or took responsibility for the hack but forensic science now devastates that narrative and number three the mainstream media has announced they will is your attraction for the past year of false coverage and apologize for manufacturing the consent of the

american people for a new cold war rather than just looking in the mirror and admitting we live in a corrupt political system and here now is that brave retraction by our mainstream media. russia the russian hackers russian with the really stresses have been meddling putin's hecate russian election attack russia russia russian russia russian russian meddling russians pac x.x. the targeted hillary clinton campaign. so maybe they got something criminal he. said waiting for the media apology about weapons of mass destruction in iraq and. it's just been going well. so let's let's get in let's get into the boring yet amazing details i hack is very different from a leak a hack is done over the internet a leak is done in person with a storage device like like sticking a thumb drive in a computer basically it's the difference between phone stacks that can be done

anywhere and a full on in person ok. a thumb drive. this was a thumb drive. how do we know it was a link and not a hack well first of all the metadata shows that the download speeds are too fast for an online transfer the download happened at least twenty two point seven megabytes per second and therefore they stays what we've been calling the hack is impossible now now after the nation article came out some people argue that twenty two point seven is obtainable though rarely but it doesn't really matter because the investigators have since found that a more detailed analysis shows that the peak copy speeds were in the range of thirty eight megabytes per second which is impossible for an internet transfer next timestamps throughout the method data suggest the transfer was done in the eastern time zone third these former n.s.a. and c.s.i.

specialists know that if it were over the internet the n.s.a. would have only have proof of it so the fact the n.s.a. hasn't presented any proof is very telling. fourth. the fourth wall and the lies in the layers of matter data the investigators have found that the first five files grew too for made public at each had run through a single template that effectively immerse them in what could plausibly be cast as russian fingerprints they were not the russian markings were were artificially inserted prior to posting the leak of the cia's internet espionage tools called vault seven show that programs designed to make things look like a russian document are indeed in the cia's tool box and i want to throw one more note in here that is coming from me this is the only one point that is not coming

from the intelligence analysts the entire reason that someone anyone would leak something to wiki leaks is to avoid being identified right there is no other reason to go through wiki leaks so why would wiki leaks announce they have d.n.c. documents and then google for two point zero come out a few days later and say he's the one who gave him the diagram right i guess are the one who leaked through weekly leaks so you would know who i am. this way. surely this is going to only visible. they would. be like like signing up for tender arriving at the date and saying i am so not into sex i mean. gross you're not you're not into that stuff are you. the only way you would make sense is it good for two point zero was either not a real person or he was hired to falsely point the finger at russia but if it

wasn't russia the why did all seventeen intelligence agencies say he was rushed. as seventeen of our intelligence agencies have confirmed the intelligence community's. i have concluded all seventeen of them the intelligence community and all of its component parts seventeen agencies yes yes seventeen agencies came together in a moment of beautiful all inspiring you to do you really. say ok if you can as a cool guy yeah they gave me gathered and agreed that the mother should we're all up in our mother action have concluded all seventeen of them. that russia interfered with this election and we all know how that's right but as i pointed out in my statement franken there are only three agencies the directly involved in this assessment but but but but oh all all

all seventeen. welcomed this assessment post my all seventeen signed on to that well we didn't go through the process this was a special situation it was a special situation in which we were making up a. way to show it to other people because they would have said that supply was. one of. these thank you thank you thank you these organizations have a long history of lying to the american public when they feel it will benefit them and even so only for agencies signed on to the russian hacking narrative and the intelligence community has still released no proof of anything right mcgovern

a former cia analyst of twenty seven years calls it a disgrace to the intelligence profession it is spotlessly free of evidence front to back pertaining to any events in which russia is implicated so why would so many of our politicians in our media jump on this law and ride it around like a cat out of the rhumba why why well as noam chomsky said control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than protest bought it states a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force but as the state loses this weapon other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs which are not. of their business the public are to be observers not participants. so that's why our mass media tries its damnedest to ensure the people remain ignorant how come our job tonight actually is to scare people to death on the subject so thank you brian yes. studies have shown people

confuse familiarity with truth so if you just repeat rush or do it all day long people will come to believe that if you tell people buying crap makes them happy they'll believe it even as they get more depressed and if you reprieve and leslie that ryan seacrest has some kind of talent people will think they agree. this is not to say trump isn't corrupt of course he as he was in bed with mobsters before it was even a d.d. was even old enough to give consent all right. this is also not to say he doesn't likely have shady criminal business practices was shady business people all around the world including russians he likely does just like the clintons have corrupt partnership around the world all i'm saying is that currently there is much more proof out there that the russians did not hack the d.n.c.

then there is proof that they did and the apology of our maze dream a via is common any minute and you get away. i'm being told we now have it we do have it it is a perfect party and far better get out of your pool and those who ignore these elemental existential facts democrats or republicans are triggers to this country apparently alex jones then made his breakfast. i think repeating flat out lies while defending the corporate interests that have gone into our nation and destroyed the lives of millions allowing a fascist corporate takeover while pointing a finger at russians or bertie voters rat. there than our own corporatocracy that makes you a traitor to this country thank you thank us thank you for. the first two years there was a very dark time and our so-called left wing media used to ridicule politicians who

seem to be going down that mccarthyist path yet again now our media have become the exact thing they claim to despise most. mr olbermann you are today's worst place in the world. all the feeling of. every the world experience. and you'll get it on the you'll roll. according to josh. welcome to my world come along for the ride.

i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't tell it's big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money for work that's drowned out a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it still fun r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the straight. to. that. architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation program the psychologist james mitchell and john justin settled their court case with three torture victims defended by the a.c.l.u.

. are are our lawsuit happy society is out of control and you used to debate you could just you could just torture some folks without all the hubbub you know. well it's like it's like a thing with lawyers involved that anyway here to discuss is our resident torture those years they only go on a. series you don't know me i mean are we are we actually suing war criminals it's believe they're not war criminals they're just doing their job and someone has to employ psychology mangers. you know those college kids who are like i want to be a doctor i don't want to touch anyone take a more read any books. but i do want to get rich writing a self-help book titled i think i love your curves or lose some weight that a. lot of that was

a well i think i think most people go into psychology to help people i think you know don't psychologists don't even take the hippocratic oath so they don't have to help people they take hippocrates brothers. draco the chiropractor. and the draconian oath i promise to do no harm unless the cia offers me eighty one million dollars. they paid to eighty one million dollars yes yes i know we asked him it from jess and mitchell and torture fiends incorporated sounds high for you know enhancing interrogation but you have to give them some credit for creativity you and i couldn't come up with the crazy thing you did to people like forced nudity forced feeding orally and. who would think to add force to that somebody great. this is a real low point for the american experiment i think. was nothing but brilliant

such a brilliant moment to see that the head of the cia michael hayden try to defend the stupidity of government sanctioned rectal feeding. let's differentiate if we. and for the sake of this conversation between the abusive the things that were not sent authorized to go on a short such as the rectal rehydration stuff. that was a medical procedure. that is a real patriot. i don't think you know how the human body works and how. your veins that way no need for peter or carrot sticks are worse than all but a rug filled feeding aside it's the first time the c.e.o. or its contractors are being held accountable for torture that since is store a cold moment the historical moment my hummus flavor. settled out of court so they wouldn't have to go to trial and reveal all the cia's

mistakes in the hansing suffering the trials would last for a century and the judge would have to leave this family you wouldn't see as kids grow up imagine we started the trial with this mistake they cleaned their newly waterboarding thing juicy details about al qaeda from a prisoner when the information came primarily for my different terrorist operative who was interviewed using traditional methods you know like talking. it's not the good now any of evil it's the banality of really really badly then lying about it can't be real work for a mentally. incompetent. no this isn't this is a see they were this is very intentional they knowingly broke the geneva conventions then covered it up but no one uses a cover up unless you know you're doing something illegal to cover up but they have a full proof full of proof defense lawyers argue that they can't be held

responsible because they simply did business with the cia like contractors who supply the nazis with. the nazis were found guilty of that certainly was defense everyone knows the nuremberg defense of just doing your job did not hold up yeah you're right that on shabbes did go to jail. well that's another historical moment in america when the cia uses. we're just like not seen. as a defense then again on air our yes. really. ever tries thing is it ever pervasive ever offensive part of our lives but a lot of the time we don't even notice it however we found one terrifying campaign in the tops of all our own troops bomb not only with jill investigative.

while going to further grabbing hold of a class of whopper of a child's first exposure to a bovine flesh based monarchy and a frightening ad campaign that spawned a million bedwetters across the world. actually let's make that a million bad show. but in argentina b.k. is home to stacker day an annual event where the fast food monarchy slashes the price in half or at stacker burger no fewer than four beef patties sandwich no affection it lead to us fast food fans as a suicide burger on burger king secret menu this year in argentina along with your gigantic burger you get

a. new car the. burger king is building an artificial limb so that disabled people can eat there on the help the birds you know like really fifty percent of staggered a profits went to atomic lab in argentina lab that makes three d. printing press that it's to give out for free because apparently burger king is being spent helping people without limbs get new plastic appendages will somehow make you interested in eating a burger that looks like a terror alert chart for your cardiovascular system. but i know what you're thinking had only you're being too skeptical of burger king's motives and i assure you my skepticism isn't rooted in the fact that fast food leads to bascule or diseases that will increase the number of amputations in the u.s. to two point three million in thirty years or that hands free is actually the only way to get americans the eat something healthy. it's rooted in the fact that it's

dangerous to rely on corporations to be our saviors especially when that same corporations ad campaign showed real burger king locations on fire in order to prove their burgers are flame broiled that ad seems as effective as an ad with a motel six on fire with the words will leave the light on for you what i'm talking about is corporate social responsibility the idea that corporations care about issues or even make you feel like you did something good with your money just as long as it doesn't hurt their profits like when tom promised to give a pair of shoes to a poor child a third world country for every pair you bought for the short lived three insulin pens and every cinnamon toast crunch box for the even shorter lived free parachute on every spirit airlines flight and in case you're wondering no they don't teach you how to open it and if you don't use it by the return trip they will charge you

thirty dollars for a carry on. but corporate p.r. stunt social responsibility doesn't get at the root of any real problem and in argentina's case that problem. is their government failing of citizens living with disabilities disability laws are barely importers and opportunities for education and jobs are closed off leading to poverty and or help any progress that has been made for the handicapped is because of advocacy on a grassroots level atomic love to borrow is getting at the root of the problem prosthetics are expensive and not only is he giving them out for free he's giving kids an opportunity to lie to their friends that their dad was half rock'em sock'em robot but that's different than burger king exploiting it to sell cow patties and they're still wait list for these prospects in the thousands and no guarantee b.k. will pass though the same generosity again so call me what

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steroids it's brought violent white supremacy ism into the mainstream and if an act it will move america farther and faster down the road to a corporatist oligarchy what f.d.r. called fascism when f.d.r. famously said the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself that is its essence that in in its essence is fascism ownership of government by an individual by a group or any control in private power with a billionaire oligarchy president an oligarchy billionaires making up much of his cabinet these are dangerous dangerous times so how do we resist is it just a matter of getting out of the streets and making a show force or do we need a new set of values to rally around and if so what are those values joining me now is someone who knows more than most about what it means to resist legendary activist bill ayers former distinguished professor of education senior university

scholar at the university of illinois at chicago bill is also the founder of the small schools workshop and the center for youth and society is new book is titled demand the impossible a radical. manifesto it's a must read as we enter the age of trump layers welcome thank you to is a pleasure to be here pleasure and honored to have you with us first of all the title demand the impossible talk about well i started off writing a pamphlet i really thought i was writing something that was going to intervene a year ago into the political conversation and i wanted to be short and punchy and i wanted to say to myself a lot of times we progressives know what we're against but what are we for and i thought it write a book about what we're for and as i thought about it i realized that there were there were demands that i thought were quite possible and yet they're outside the kind of given conversation so in health care if we have a conversation about should be preserved obamacare or should we go with full out you know corporate greed and my response is there's

a third option here and that option is free health care for all so i tried to take several issues and say what do i really believe what do we want what are we fighting for and i found this great quote from che guevara which was all over the walls of paris in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and i like the country diction in it the country diction is being realistic demand the impossible and frankly i think the book is completely realistic and yet it's not in the political discourse that's approved by the mainstream yeah unfortunately a lot of these ideas in fact it took in some ways some would argue it took the sanders candidacy to push some of these well i sanders came to see let's also acknowledge occupy let's acknowledge black lives matter who put many of these ideas on the agenda and brought them into the mainstream but the the important thing is that we we sometimes get stuck in our imaginations get frozen and instead of saying this is what we really believe we we end up kind of fighting defensive battle since so the idea was to say what do we want and as i wrote the book i realize that the

big issues of the day even though i've long been kind of caricature as far left this and ultra left this. and every issue of real importance to me i feel like i'm in the mainstream i've always felt that way but so i acknowledge occupy i acknowledge black lives matter and yes the sanders campaign did a good job of popularising some of this conversation we are watching right now as the. in the in the cabinet selections you know the senate hearings and in the public statements in the public pronouncements it seems that the trump. team for lack of a better word is not just committed to rolling back the great society they're committed to rolling back the new deal and the and and and literally taking us back to the gilded age of the late nineteenth century and do you see is it your sense that that's the greatest crisis we're facing how would you define the crisis went

on where you began was absolutely accurate and we may need a new language to describe it because somehow the word fascism seems so european and so twentieth century but the fact is it has a concrete meaning and what we were all thinking before the november election is that the trump candidacy trump ran on a platform that was explicitly fascist that is the core the merging of the corporate with government the disappearance of the public square the criminalizing of entire classes of people and on a nun so what we have imagined before november was that even though trump himself would be crushed this forces that he unleashed were going to be something we would have to deal with for a long time and it is a white supremacist organized force now in the west wing so i would say yes we are up against. a crisis that none of us has ever seen in our lifetime i think it was absolutely reasonable for people to be shocked and surprised the day after the election i think all these weeks later we should not be surprised we should remind

ourselves that this is the country we live in that this country has this shameful history that this shameful history rears up now. and again and here we are facing something that i think is unprecedented but we are not starting from scratch either black lives matter is on the ground standing rock is resisting people are coming to washington to voice their opinions i think this is an exciting and terrible time in america and we all get busy and get organized at no time to. take a vacation here absalom you open the book with a with a story about going to greece told sister well i went to greece i was invited to give a talk at an anarchist convention and of course the first thing i said to them when they picked me up at the airport was are you sure you're anarchist because you're having a convention. and i said it was a little weird in any case i had a wonderful time with the young radicals in athens but through a mutual friend i was introduced to him in the mentalist glacis and i know this is

famous throughout greece a national hero a national treasure now it is ninety's but he's famous because at the age of fourteen he took the fascist nazi flag off the acropolis. as the nazis were occupying greece and he was hunted his brother was killed and he was imprisoned for and tortured and now has risen as and as a national hero we spent the day together an island fire outside athens and it was a most moving experience but what part of what was moving about it we found a lot to agree about a lot to to talk about but. what was most moving to me was as we returned to the ship to take me back to athens moneyless said to me i think you face in the united states the same problem we face here in greece and that is that people don't really have confidence in themselves that they could run their own affairs with confidence with optimism with hope we could actually run our own affairs without

a big government without capitalism without bosses and sheriffs and mayors and i found that very moving he was in the mode of demanding the impossible we're seen the rise of neo liberalism in europe and you know from the euro zone the european union in some ways the austerity politics. the neo liberalism within the democratic party right now is under fire. arguably you know the confluence of neo liberalism and reaganism in the republican party and all of this kind of stuff and it seems like and in fact some of the some of the stuff coming out of davos right now where the billionaires are sitting around congratulating each other on how the how they're running the world it seems like in many ways it's starting to break down what's your sense of how the world order is well i think it's i think it's important that you point to that because i don't think trump is simply an american phenomenon what we see is right wing nationalist governments fascist governments

really rising all over europe and the west and in many ways it is a rejection of thirty forty years of neo liberal policy and that's one of the problems that we face uniquely in this country which is the democratic party is ill prepared to represent a real opposition to this because it's really been a bipartisan effort that has walked us down this road to where we are a bipartisan effort has brought us permanent war a bipartisan effort has brought us to mass incarceration and a hollowed out economy and meaningless work and austerity so they are ill prepared . say now what we're going to rise up and represent real opposition on the other hand trumps election represented such a hurricane such a kind of storm that who knows maybe they will start to find their footing i'm not hopeful in that direction what i am hopeful about is people on the ground getting organized building a mass movement that can really make the kind of demands of what we deserve and

build a movement that can really change things around the late tim carpenter who started the progressive democrats of america as an old dear friend and he always talked about the inside outside strategy that we really need to not only have an outside movement but we also have to get inside the democratic party and i always on my radio show i'm constantly pushing people to go to your local democratic party volunteer become a precinct committee person because they write the platform they determine who's going to be the primary get real progressives and am i being pollyanna well i don't think you're being pollyanna in fact i the way i would say it is we have to walk toward socialism on two legs one leg is the ca's mobilization of people the other leg is the participation in normal politics on the other hand i wouldn't get to a narrative that and that's what has worried me to through my whole adult life that is every four years the carnival comes to town and people who want to be political

get sucked into that drama forgetting that what really changes things is mobilized people in real social movements from the ground up in other words lyndon johnson passed the most far reaching civil rights legislation since reconstruction he wasn't part of the black freedom movement franklin roosevelt wasn't part of the labor movement and abraham lincoln was not part of the abolitionists moving to every of them opposed all those all of that earlier and later so you read lincoln's first inaugural address it's a law and order speech you then listen to harriet tubman or john brown on the gallows and you read lincoln's second inaugural address and say that could have been written by apple. this is something happened but it wasn't a change that came from above it was fired from below sometimes i worry that we spend too much time staring at the sites of power we have no access to the white house the medieval auction block called the congress and too little time paying attention to the sites of power we have absolute access to the workplace the classroom the neighborhood the house of worship this is where we should be

mobilizing and organizing today in in the face of this trump election one of these i think we can all do is we can gather we can gather our neighbors we can gather our schoolmates we can gather our workmates and we can ask ourselves where are we on the clock of the world where are we in this in this long drama of this country and what's required of us now looking forward what do we have to do you know it's it is it is a remarkable time and time pregnant with opportunity absolutely and danger and i want to get into both of those with you particular meditations on the american dream that you and your book absolutely in just a moment we'll have more with bill ayres right after this break.

the feeling of. every. period. and you'll get it on the old world. according to jess. the mission of newsworthy is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think

the mainstream media in this country can say the. rich. are to america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one tells us. how long or how to say that's the beauty of archie america. and we question. that's. not letting anything get in your way to bring it home to the american people. welcome back to the big picture i'm speaking with legendary activist bill ayers his new book is titled demand the impossible a radical manifesto bill you end your book with

a meditation on the american dream what is the american dream well you know i think the american dream in many ways the way it's deployed by politicians is a myth and the myth is that somehow we're the exceptional people that were different then better than other people and that's a treacherous treacherous path to go down so i want to think of ourselves as human beings i don't want us to think of ourselves as outside of or above the law of the laws that govern everyone else or the standards or the behaviors or the moral principles that govern all other people so the idea. at that somehow we have the right to invade other countries we have the right to torture we have the right to. issue drone strikes against other human beings this is unacceptable and the behavior of the american government our government around the world if it were any other government we would be appalled i remember years ago we were world social forum in brazil and there was a wonderful workshop run by

a latin american activist and he had a map of the world and he asked there were about one hundred participants he said put up a map put a pin on this map if the u.s. has a military presence in your country and the maps went up and the pins went up on the map and then he said and put up a pin if your country has a military presence in the u.s. and everybody laughed of course it makes sense to americans that we have air bases in the italian alps but what we think if the italians had an airbase in the adirondacks it's unthinkable and that's the kind of thing i wanted to challenge this idea that we should think of ourselves as outside of the norms of civilized behavior historically if you look at the arc of history of the united states we have essentially rebooted a couple of times and each time it was provoked by a crisis first an economic major economic crisis followed by oh by a war eighty years ago the great depression followed by world war two eighty years

before that that crashed eight hundred fifty seven followed by the civil war eighty years before that the great economic crisis a seven hundred seventy followed by the american revolution actually another one eighty years before that you know there's a book called the fourth turning about this. here we are eighty years out from the last major crisis the last major turning the last major revolution but those three turnings every single one of them because we had the founders that we had because we had abraham lincoln because we had f.d.r. turned america in a more progressive direction what are your thoughts about her. how a crisis let's say that there was another economic crash for example it seems to me that two thousand and eight actually never went away they're just kind of holding it in abeyance or some some some sort of worldwide crisis whether it's war to taiwan china whatever million million things that could that. that could be provoke a really problematic response i mean in thirty two we had f.d.r.

at thirty three we had f.d.r. germany had hitler we both experienced the great depression we went in very different directions because the leadership now we have trouble what does that mean well it's a terrifying analogy you're making or comparison because absolutely when crises can lead to in many directions there's no guarantees history surprises us again and again and i don't think any kind of cyclical vision of history in the end holds holds up i mean i think that that new things are on the agenda new technologies new possibilities and i think two thousand and eight and certainly that economic crisis could have been a time to really hold the banks and the bankers feet to the fire it didn't happen now here we are eight years later and the crisis hasn't gone away you're right i think the crisis is in abeyance but there's another cycle that i'd point to in the last couple hundred years and that is the centuries old black freedom struggle

which i think is is is absolutely at the center of our story of our collective story and i think that when i see progress happening i see it coming from the impulse of african-americans to be free to demand the impossible to man the end of slavery which was not popular which was entirely minority movement for a long period of time and then to win to sell for the brain and to win that struggle hundred years later we have the second. iteration of that black freedom struggle and here we are i think on the brink of of the third of the third rising and that is the black lives matter movement which i think should fill all of us with hope optimism a view that we can change things and that these young people are not settling for with the democratic party has been selling these all these. years which is optics or diversity as opposed to justice in other words assimilation you know breaking

the glass ceiling that's all well and good but what we want is justice what we want is an end to structural white supremacy and i think that's on the agenda right now and i don't think it's going away you. yeah what how would you characterize the activism of this you just characterize one dimension of the activism of this era but as if my recollection is correct from reading your book the. and i might be mixing next in this up to something else you were talking about how you know decades ago just the idea of gay marriage would have been impossible absent and yet here we have it was asian wide that's how rapid change can happen when a group of people who are really committed to their own rights come forward what are the other dimensions of the activists of the activism of today that we should be paying attention to feeding nourishing and participating well you know i've

mentioned before that the victories of the civil rights movement did not come from on high in fact i often think that you read a textbook about brown versus board of education the case that did away with supposedly with segregation in schools and you have to you know if you read a textbook it will say brown versus board of education opened up decades of activism that gets it absolutely backwards decades of activism led to brown versus board of education which lead to more activism in other words the idea that change comes from the good intentions of people in the top is always wrong just look at the eight years of the obama administration who made progress who made progress where those activists and movements that didn't go to sleep that didn't sit down that didn't back up and i would put in that the environmental movement occupy black lives matter standing rock women. gay people and immigrant youth i mean all these people kept at it and that's what led to good things i think chelsea manning being

commuted her sentence being commuted was another example where it was thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people from the bottom who made who made that decision a possibility so i think that's our job that's what we ordinary people can do we don't command the levers of power but we can make ourselves heard sometimes in traditional ways street demonstrations which they'll be plenty of this weekend writing letters organizing campaigns but what's important is that everyone can stand up for something everyone in a in a in a world is out of bounds says this world everyone can find a place to dive in once you find that place to dive in and connect with other people who have dived in as well and that's how movement start we've we've talked about how crises can provoke change and one of the great crises of our day is of

our day is global warming where we're looking at the possibility i mean there are there are paleo geologic geologists out there be up people who look at the ancient rock history. who are suggesting that if the methane for example that is frozen the methane clathrates that are frozen around the world were activated were you know mobilized into the year simply by warming the oceans that it could produce something like the permian mass extinction ninety seven percent of all life die and i mean we're we're we're we're looking at a planet wide crisis to what extent does that play into all this and it and how aware are people that well i don't know how where people are i think it's our job to be sure that we're aware and to make everyone else aware front page the new york times today we're in the third year of record warming globally so this is not a mystery and yet the people who are taking power in washington d.c. . one of the characteristics of a kind of right wing neo fascist kind of movement is to ignore science to ignore

intellectual life the distain the arts well this is what the crisis that we're facing i look at something like standing rock though it take a lot of energy and hope from that because not only did they mobilize a successful woman but they combined the issues that need to be combined they combined environmental justice with indigenous rights with anti imperialism with a sense of fairness and justice for for all and they linked up the movements black lives matter was part of it and so on and so i think that i'm hopeful but i think that the urgency you know a lot of people kind of hair wise the sixty's the so-called sixty's which i think is largely a myth i don't think anyone looked at their watch on december thirty first one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and said oh my god it's almost over you know it was it's both played up too much as a kind of wet blanket on activism today it's also nothing more boring than old

people looking the style sickly at a ship that already left the shore but i think that one of the things that is true that can be said truly of the sixty's is whatever it was it was prelude to the urgency we must feel today it wasn't a thing in itself but the activism of those days the activism of the last forty years has to take on a new urgency not only to save. ourselves but to save the world well and apropos of that in in this in the one nine hundred sixty s. in the late and sixty's you and i were both in as to yes in fact and in some cases in the same places. i didn't go down the weather underground path graduations well i had one close friend who did and ended up in prison i mean it's. but i'm curious your thoughts as somebody who did what lessons you learned from that that you would want to like the. look into the camera and tell activists today do this or don't do

this you know this is well you know i'm seventy two years old now and i look at young activists and asking them to teach me i don't feel like the old people have a lot of mentoring to do in that regard i think that kids are wiser smarter more aware more tuned. more beautiful than we were and so i look to them on the other hand i think that the rhythm of activism is always the same you have easy to say and difficult to do you have to open your eyes and see the world as it really is you have to be astonished every time at both the beauty and the ecstasy that's everywhere around and also the unnecessary suffering that people visit upon one another you can't get used to it you have to be astonished then you have to act and then you have to doubt if the weather underground made one fundamental error it was we forgot the doubt in other words like a lot of other folks who become dogmatic and sectarian we were so certain and we were geared up so completely to do what needed to be done and that we didn't step

back and say let's rethink this let's ask ourselves and if i were to advise activists that i would say always rethink always follow that rhythm keep opening your eyes keep being astonished keep acting keep doubting keep that circle going and the way you will evaluate your activism is a pedagogical standard in the standard is that i educate others in that i learned something myself if you educate others and learn something yourself you're on the right track bill ayers honor to have you with pleasure thanks so much and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're it. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those for the fish if your

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tonight category four hurricane harvey made landfall in texas and continues to probably houston and the surrounding areas with severe flooding and fifty four years after the i have a dream speech ministers meet and march in the nation's capital to confront racial prejudice and the iraqi army remains on guard for militant movie traps in the recently liberated city of tel afar artie's murat god has exclusive coverage i'm going to chance sitting in for ed schultz here in washington d.c. you're watching are to america. good

evening we start tonight in texas where hurricane harvey is still pouring rain on houston and the surrounding areas over thirty inches of poured into parts of houston and the storm is expected to affect the state of louisiana into tomorrow are trying to be charged as has the details search and rescue missions are still underway an estimated nine trillion gallons of rain how fallen and more rains are expected to continue through friday with an additional fifteen to twenty five inches of flooding in the region now eighteen countries in the state of texas have made a federal disaster declaration list and that number may increase in the coming days this hurricane has devastated communities throughout texas the houston chronicle reported two hundred seventy six major roads are high water locations and over eighty thousand people do not have electricity according to a few more than four hundred fifty thousand people are expected to seek federal aid in the recovering from this catastrophic

a catastrophic event and over three hundred thousand people will seek shelter there have been at least eight deaths and more than a dozen people injured houston officials are working together to do everything that they can to ensure the safety of the public and get those who are in danger out to sea fifty s. . and at a press conference earlier today the houston police department say that they have completed the rescue of over two thousand people and two hundred ninety of those rescues were water rescues that just occurred overnight the fire department has responded to over five hundred five thousand five hundred calls for service just in the last twenty four hours and as of this morning they have about one hundred eighty five critical rescue requests that they hope to complete today not too long ago the governor of texas says that this is just the early stages of responding to the storm and says that this is going to be a new normal in the recovery process let's take a listen importantly this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for

a long long time we will be here until we can restore this region is back to normal as possible or as we discussed in our meeting earlier we need to recognize is going to be a new normal will be a new and different normal for this entire region but we will not stop until we get as far as we can the governor announced today that he has authorized the deployment of all of the twelve thousand texas national guards the president also just spoke moments ago and he said protecting the lives of our people is his highest priority tragic times like this bring out the best in america's character he will be visiting areas of texas tomorrow and is expected to return on saturday and also is expected to visit louisiana as well on saturday besides being the nation's fourth largest city texas is also the heart of oil and chemical industries many are worried that the hurricane will create long term public health problems

and if there is an accidental toxically due to the storm which can contaminate the waterways and have detrimental effects the federal agency management agency addressed some of these concerns at a press conference today and here's what they had to say. it's very early in this but what we do know is that the water in corpus christi and in victoria area recommendation for boiling of the water before before consumption the good news is that the work that's been done the pre deployment that's been done as brock says there are significant assets water assets that they are that are available for folks and that's the challenge that we have is getting them to people looking for oil spills we have not detected in the oil spill yet but we are actively monitoring that an oil and hazardous response now although right now it is too early to tell whether or not there has been any pollution government officials say that most refineries had exercise voluntary shutdowns before the storm made landfall which will help with any environmental issues. meanwhile hurricane harvey has already

impacted oil prices for more on this we're being joined now by bart gellman he's the former u.s. trading commissioner thanks for being here this evening we saw big oil and gas price impact back in two thousand and five right after hurricane katrina hit the the oil coast are we beginning to see that again due to this storm i think we are in manila i mean the prices are only up a few cents since friday average gasoline price on friday was to thirty five is just to thirty seven but the futures price that is the the wholesale price the markets are used to regulate it took the largest uptick seven points in overnight trading last night in two and a half years it went back down settled if you want to buy wholesale gas is going to have to pay a dollar seventy want to gallon about dollar seventy two rather but i think we are starting to see it it was up forty cents after katrina disagree on the gas but i do think we're going to see some of that coming up here because the harvey how how high are these going to go if i've read about everything i've looked at all the

experts and they're saying maybe fifteen to twenty five but i got to say the extent of the damage when i look at refineries and what's going on i think it could be thirty or more cents a gallon and that could last for at least a month. this is not something that's going to go away in a matter of a couple of weeks well i mean is it going to be because of refineries perhaps being shut down our ally what should people do should be should they be filling up their cars and trucks now they should be filling up their cars and trucks now and in unfortunately you know in the houston and corpus christi the whole oil coast they're having a tough time because so many of the service stations are closed but people across the country i think you know if you want to get save a few dollars i'd go ahead and fill it up now that's a common thing for people to do before labor day anyway but definitely prices are going on the rise i wouldn't be surprised if we're not up by a nickel within the next couple of days over where we are now so keep an eye on a performer i'm glad you brought up labor day because as we know americans go

driving on labor day weekend prices go up anyway is there a danger of price gouging and if so what ten people do about it well there is a man effect in texas they've already have five hundred complaints to the attorney general and that's who people should call whether or not it's in texas or louisiana the attorney general five hundred complaints about price gouging now that's not just all of gas but some of it is some people are saying that people have charged a charge of service stations have tried to charge upwards of four dollars even as much as ten dollars a gallon is that really it's not a legal matter of fact you can be fined twenty thousand dollars and if it happens to be the person you're getting is over sixty five years old it's two hundred fifty thousand and good for the texas legislature for doing that but they're also getting people i know with regard to hotel rooms with regard to water big case of water was sold this is said yes was said to have sold at a gathering price of ninety nine dollars at least they tried to sell it at ninety

nine dollars so consumers need to be where i know it's a tough time for the people down there and the rest of us need to not only have our hopes and prayers with them but let's also cross our fingers a little bit and hope that these refineries do get back on. line and that there are no new oil spills or anything and the price of gas remains pretty low we've been fortunate so far the last couple years hope it doesn't go up too much with your eagle eye what are you going to be looking at in the coming days the state of these refineries the like you were asking about whether or not there's more damage and we think literally i mean even one of your producers i was speaking with they cannot make it to work at these refineries and so it's not even a question of what the damage is really old midnight oil song how can you sleep when our beds are burning well they can't tell they can't do an assessment right now because you're in the middle of this calamity so it's going to take a few days to even get back there to do an assessment so watching the extent to which some of these are firing from injuries come back on line will be important

and lastly there is the largest refinery in the u.s. in port arthur the place is called multi-book port arthur and if that goes offline they're trying to decide right now if that goes off line that's going to be another bad sign for gas prices will be a big trouble for us ok i guess we've got to keep a close eye on this former u.s. trading pressure bart chilton thank you as always. the pentagon is confirming north korea has launched a missile over japan south korea's joint chiefs issued a statement north korea had fired a missile near p.r. eastward around five fifty seven am local time norad quickly determine the launch was not a threat the missile flew almost seven hundred miles reaching a maximum height of three hundred and forty one miles the launch comes two days after north korea fired several short range missiles into the sea. now protests and berkeley descended into chaos over the weekend anti-fascist demonstrators broke through the police barricades during

a rally against hate and clashed with right wing activists six people were injured during the un rask thirteen arrested artie's came up and was there as a report. we're here outside of work in the civic center in downtown berkeley california as you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist protesters these are people that assemble to calendar a right wing rally that was called for today for this afternoon under the slogan say no to marxism well these are both here that object out to a number of the people involved with that reported right wing rally i consider them to be white supremacy and fascism assemble to denounce it while the nazis may have a right to demonstrate we've got a right to show that there are really clear through or far sooner than any time a group reaches the hatred that you've seen from the outright i think it's only human to match that even if it's not the most mature reaction it's only human to match that with some kind of anger and aggression really want to stand for nonviolence who would take the side against people that speak for violence

including politicians such as donald trump one grouping that is widely present is the folks who call themselves anti five some of them also would call themselves the black bloc people with masks over their faces are you know helmets goggles they're here for a fight almost i mean they give that impression we've seen repeatedly from folks try to come into the crowd began you know begin spent sending out their message state making statements in support of doll trial out of the crowd kind of circling up the police moving in and scuffles breaking out. the back of that. is just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states especially in the aftermath charlottesville a lot of different views being expressed here a lot of anger but a lot of folks that just say they're worried about their country than quite a crazy scene here in downtown berkeley california. and today marks the fifty fourth anniversary of dr martin luther king's famous i have a dream speech ministers gathered in washington d.c.

today to speak on the outbreak of recently racially motivated violence across the nation are he's actually thanks was at the event today and she has the. report now so manila ministers from all over the nation they gathered here in d.c. today they were marching from the dr martin luther king memorial all the way to the department of justice in order to make their presence known and to honor dr martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech i want to quickly take a look at my reporting of the events. kitty for you. i'm here at the department of justice in washington d.c. where behind me you will see hundreds of the ministers that have gathered here today to march for justice many of them are saying that they've seen an uptick in hate crimes once president donald trump and attorney general jeff sessions took office right by god that's a guide many people who gather today are unhappy with the injustices that many people face in this country our criminal justice system is one of the places that

we have to start the mass incarceration of black and brown people in our country. feels like a systemic form of oppression and how that then is an act and has created a new sense of slavery a new jim crow i would like to see an honest and open conversation about the role of white supremacy in the founding of our country and how it's interwoven into all of our systems and i once to see a kind of a mass. kind of reconciliation process that helps us to heal the wounds of slavery and to create a society that space upon equality and honor and privileges of certain groups of people. and of course today people across america mark the fifty fourth anniversary of dr martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech one hundred year.

one hundred years. we're going to grow it. and. discriminate it feels really important to come together on the anniversary of the i have a dream speech and recommit to the important issues. of voters' rights and then franchise men of people kills absolutely crucial that faith leaders of all kinds i'm a rabbi from the jewish community are here to send the message loud and clear that dr king stream is not yet for phil and we need to march until it is and the jews were with king fifty four years ago and this is our fight for justice as much as anybody else's. well actually with the recent events in charlottesville has

the debate to remove the confederate statues has that come up has that added urgency to dr king's words all these years later events and troll and spill it seems like they're becoming more and more frequent of course that's due in part to technology and the fact that their social media as a word gets out a lot faster than the fact of the day but reverend al sharpton jesse jackson it's i mean moms and some of the rabbis you just heard from they're just fed up with this so they figured they had to do something because the naacp is enough so these people came from places like atlanta philadelphia they've come from states like california came all the way. to march for just as a lot of these people want donald trump an attorney general jeff sessions out of office but they're saying that if that's not practical if it's not feasible that that's going to happen they need to make their voices heard and they have to influence these communities so that things like what happened in charlottesville and these hate groups trying to come up with these rallies all over the country come to an end so it's just as much about honoring dr king as well as speaking up

about the violence happening now all right thank you so much actually banks. a month this theater is facing backlash after announcing it would discontinue its annual screening of gone with the wind the orpheum theater group decided the film was racially insensitive and pulled the film after public comments. has the details orpheum theater group in memphis tennessee has screen the classic film gone with the wind each of the past thirty four years this year screening on aug eleventh coincidentally coincided with a white nationalist evening march in charlottesville virginia ahead of unite the right rally that ended in three deaths according to theater group president brett patterson the screening prompted numerous comments that led to a decision not to run the film next year patterson said as an organization whose stated mission is to entertain. educate and light in the communities it serves

cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population the one nine hundred thirty nine film takes place in the american south against the backdrop of the civil war long criticized for glorifying slavery when the orpheum theater group announced its decision to pull the movie memphis resident wendy thomas praised the decision saying slowly but surely we will read this community of all tributes to white supremacy backlash after the announcement was much louder katie hydro not sure if anyone really complained or your feet are just decided to be cowered cheap and given to madness they you should be ashamed underneath dixie grey pointed out how do you mcdaniel was the first black american to win an oscar with her costarring role as mammy in gone with the wind i guess her achievement and also gone with the wind sad how the mcdaniel was not only the first african-american to win an academy award she was the first to be nominated for acting it would be more than two decades before

another african-american actor would win now the comments continue to pour in with outrage and calls to boycott the theatre orpheum c.e.o. said the screening of this film is something that's questioned every year but the social media storm this year really brought it home we reached out to the theater representatives for reaction to the backlash against their decision and have yet to hear back for the news with ed schultz dollars ario. on friday as hurricane harvey made landfall president pardoned former arizona sheriff joe arpaio and today the president defended his decision so for more on this let's go now to our political panel for the night mitch these are former democratic party chair of florida and we have conservative radio show host andrea kaye thank you both for being here tonight ok so let's go with that here sheriff joe is pardoned he's trumps the very first pardon arpaio is eighty five years old. would have faced sentencing on october

fifth but he's received his get out of jail free card ahead of that the obama d.o.j. had found guilty of criminal contempt in his failure to comply with stopping racially profiling and detaining latinos in arizona now both people on the left and the right have disapproved of this move andrea kay your thoughts on this first well i'm not really sure i understand what all the hysteria is about you know it's not like he pardoned terrorist a domestic terrorist who was responsible for killing six americans or pardoning the world's greatest tax cheat and then turn around taking millions of dollars for his foundation you know i think hoping everybody knows who i'm referring to which was obama's pardon of the domestic terrorist out of puerto rico and bill clinton's famous pardon of mr rich and those were just two of the what i consider to be far more scandalous pardons by the obama and the clinton administration it involved murderers and drug dealers that preyed upon children but here we have president

doing the right thing by pardoning a man who was targeted by the court system strictly for his politics and we cannot go down the road in this country to where our courts are weaponized to punish people for their politics which is pardoning our pio just deepening the rift between america americans right now. absolutely and let me also say that i learned in third grade two wrongs as in the case with bill clinton don't make a right here these two guys trump and sheriff joe their bromance began in the birth of a movement which of course has to do with the fact that you know president obama might not have been born the united states which we all know if we're thinking at all is ridiculous and since obviously been proved in reproof the problem is is that by pardoning him you're passing on on the value of the law you're also ignoring the fact that it's saying just the wrong message if the charlottesville where we were

talking about a racial insensitivity by the by the president either what he said or by words of omission and there you know the problem is is the fact that this invest investigation of share of show began in the bush justice department we have to remember that and what has transpired since then is he is sending out a dog whistle the president is not only to groups such as the banning folks by saying hey he may be out of the white house but i haven't forgotten you but i'm much more concerned having lived through watergate that he may be sending signals to people who are under investigation in the white house either presently or in the past saying i got your back all right that concerns me let's switch gears here to nafta since we're speaking out. in mexico already mexico has gone public with their disapproval of trump's nafta comments trump saying through twitter that maybe he'd just cancel the agreement entirely and seems to be tying the border wall to

nafta which is that a good idea. well you know the president always is looking for another deal and he also is in a long term think you're the only things about the immediate problem with nafta and most specifically even with the wall is the fact that he's saying now we even said today or will call and of. they will get it back later the question is are the republicans will be good stewards of money and a tree we are the money going to come from he wants tax cuts he wants to build the wall we have to give aid to all those folks who suffer the tragedy of the hurricane in texas where is the money going to come from nafta is an ongoing negotiation i think the republican congress is going to parents a bill which will have a skeletal structure beginning to the wall but i am sure america is paying for it and i'm going to give you the last word on this we can't negotiate via twitter how is this going to pan out. well first of all i have to backtrack and say what in the world does the birth their movement which was started by hillary clinton by the way

in charlottesville in the event have to do with what happened with joe arpaio if the left really cares about the rule of law they will look at the merits of that case and realize it was nothing but a witch hunt he was actually denied his sixth amendment right to a jury trial in regards to nafta nafta is everything that the left says that they don't they don't like everything that they can use the g.o.p. of being for it was a one thousand page bill that was nothing but special privileges to big investors and big corporations to incentivize businesses to outsource jobs lower the wages of american workers and as you know a favor to big business it even had secret settlement panels in there as a way to avoid the us national labor laws and environmental regulations so i don't understand why the left continues to defend this except that it's really about you know. big global movement on the part of the left and absolutely the wall should be tied to it of course the mexican president doesn't want this taken to the public because he doesn't want the public to understand the truth about nafta and that it

is a bad deal for the american public and hopefully they actually get on the horn and speak to one another not tweet each other thank you so much for sharing your insights with us mitch caesar and andrea kay. thank you for having me. there rocky army says most of the city of tel afar has been liberated from islamic state militants but as artie's by guys the deadly surprises are around every corner. then the islamiah by the islamic state remain you'll find fiji like that plastered there with the bridges and buildings inside of frog iraq he sent his haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting a day after the victory was announced here and tired of fighting still hasn't died down isis hygiene throughout the city and. any geographic areas. they're hiding in basements and buildings and timers underneath the city waiting to

ambush patrolling iraqi soldiers. why not let them come to a. well i says this been beaten in tal afar they're made sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps every red intel a fad they have ten the city interests up as night met and coming here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem. behind any of these. could be explosives booby traps behind the even in the right switches. couple i was bit one were officers went into the house and sat on the sofa exploded along with the house they had

booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles. when you open the door and explodes it all a lot of just come back from telefon you can live in a lie down in the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and was never well we don't touch anything. will do all we can to disarm everything but there's only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed as this bomb was intended for does but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i still couldn't get the car bomb out our engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion but it's strange isis folded almost too quickly.

there is evidence that around four hundred families of isis fighters were allowed to leave on august twenty fifth in an unspecified direction the rumor among iraqi troops is that as many as two thousand isis fighters have been given safe passage out of tal afar into syria again this is a rumor and because confirm it but it would explain the and expectedly easy fight iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of tal afar saying would still follow through but having spent some time here in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when the opportunity presented itself was the proper background bring them the mess from the desert in order to get away approve the rocky ministry in the u.s.

led coalition brits to vet might file a fraud most of them silly and will come back a question ooh ooh. qualified will be missed to come but two more i guys do you see from telephone the rock and breaking news an active shooter situation has developed in clovis new mexico there are multiple fatalities being reported at the clovis carver public library police have surrounded the library where the shooter still remains we'll have more for you as the story develops and that is the news tonight i'm an election thing in for edge shelter here in washington d.c. we'll see you back here tomorrow and then have a great night thanks so much and. all the fuel we took. every the world should experience.

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just taken a while i think that's part of like by my act is so large and aggressive and sexualized because i i feel like i was being ignored or not really getting opportunities because i have this body i look different than you know i don't know how impairs or protesting or somebody like that but. i have something to say to i want to be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that has to sing in trying to run a pianist that is created to have plus put so when she should. have once my mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't believe i just said that to larry king live is into all next on larry king now. the larry king now my special guest is bridget everett comedian actor musician

we're now in cabaret for fall and she's been named the most exciting before me new york city by the village voice and roar and riotous by the new york times bridget's . band the tender moments as an album available on i tunes she tours the country with her comedy act and she stars in the new movie patty cakes about an aspiring rapper from new jersey had a case will be in theaters august eighteenth we'll talk about that a case in a bit but cabaret act is that a lost art you know it's funny and i have a hit at home and you don't hear it too much but when people first started saying like you know if i would go to like a comedy festival whatever they'd be like what do you do in my friend she's a cabaret singer i be like showed up because it's not like a cool term really but in new york it's it's really thriving this is on or there's a ton of people doing you know just a different version of like the standard old so i was having a tells like what is a cabaret well to me

a cabaret is singing and telling stories you know it's like the combination of those two. you know there's like the old guard that would be like so to. reflect of stories and i do the same thing but i just sort of. you know it's a little bit wrong as i meant but it's doesn't have to be bronte greatest sigurd of the day barbara cook yeah it was a cabaret yeah we had this dream there were my friends call a school and us and the v.m. bon and we all went to team up like old school new school and bar because for cole and i was going to be with a paddle upon and it was i don't i think she's old school i think the pollen is legendary and it's all about her i mean you said a few years ago the wilder i become on stage the quieter i become in real life yeah what i mean i don't know i think that i spent my formative years trying to like get noticed in karaoke bars that was crippled like the only job i could get certainly but i just found myself like going wild in my shows and you know like ripping my

shirt open and like i interact with the audience a lot and i think that i just the more i put out the less i have left of me and so i would just sort of when i would go to a party or something i'd be like what am i doing here is yours and like anything goes yeah it's like a motor scale it's a risk but it's not like for the sake of being risque it's sort of it's just my way of like interacting with people and getting to know them and sort of seeking them alive in a way. but i call. tender like you do a couple the roxy songs and then you course you have to have heart to balance it or it's just as is the sex was so wrong as usual well i have once my mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't believe i just said that to larry king live isn't it. but you know i had difficulty. but i have

a song like my most popular song is called and it's about i wrote it for my mom actually when she got breast cancer she's fine but she when i grow up we use a color beaver tails because she had these like long well hang in there. yeah but i. you know i was saying about the loss of my sister and my dad and so it's not just all just you know pounding you are also a large woman yeah most people groom and try to play bad yeah you have a lot of body confidence right well i think that's part of like why my act is so large and aggressive and sexualized because i i feel like i was being ignored or not really getting opportunities because i have this body so i wanted to i wanted to present the full all of me because i feel like that it's you know it's i look different and you know i don't know how it pairs or jessica testing or somebody like that but. i have something to say too and it's just in

a six foot tall package that likes to make friends of people in the audience i guess you first funny and then saying oh do you sing for i consider myself a singer i studied opera. yeah but i i hung that up when i realized i couldn't. have to have a real clean living have a clear crystal voice so you mentioned patti wood poem perform with her carnegie hall like. it was incredible i was at the bank deposit in my tips i waited tables for twenty five years and my friend scott whitman called and he has a patio opponent seats in a show that we did together and he and he's in there like he which one if you'd want to sing a song with patti at carnegie hall like six months before i just told my agent that i was like you know i'm never going to sing at carnegie hall and here i was get an opportunity to do it with somebody who i think is just the queen to do one song with i did one song we saying me and bobby mcgee and then after i left the stage

she stopped the show and she talked about me for several minutes and just telling people that what i was doing was unlike anybody else and people said come down and see me at joe's pub so it was pretty cool what was it like to share stage with. heaven she's gracious. just so she's like by onic you know she's like a broad and but incredibly talented i just saw her do warpaint on broadway and her voice is better than ever it just keeps getting better she's a she's a force she just stands at the end of the stage and it just comes out and she just it's effortless and and i just aspire to have like the longevity that she's at carnegie hall perfect acoustics right it's incredible to me the mike you don't. it's what it's like a moment i'm sure you've you know been on essays many times and it's i've been on it twice and you stand there and it's like this is like a seminal moment when all those you had that just kind of all wondered about going to church itself which so tell me about this year it's about

a new jersey girl who's an aspiring rapper yeah pattycake says patricia dunn brodsky and she's. she's not a typical engine hoover she wants to be a rapper she's trapped in small town in new jersey and i play her alcoholic mean bitter mother who had dreams of being a rock singer some other comedy not well it's a funny movie it's like serial comic but my part is dramatic so that was a first for me to get it. well they're part of the sundance labs and it isn't called and it was like do you want to go work with this first time writer director sunday as i was like no because not because i didn't want to work with them but because i thought i would fail and i have a habit of self sabotaging myself but my friend convinced me to go and. the worst thing that happens is i spot robert redford walking around those well jean shorts or is talking about that i'm doing all right but i fall in love with and it's been a life changing experience of war no movies yeah yeah in fact like when i was there

i was surprise you know like with any comic or comedian or funny person you know the play the pain sort of is right at the skin. and i think that this gave me an opportunity to access that i wasn't that hard let's watch a clip from petty gates. for me it's. legit ditch to die would come sit on call joe's left i want to count your records. if they said think it was a ship. oh hey this you know it's a real treat to night. patricia but if you are going to use pipes you know your old lady was a real piece of a back in the day and still got it. one

more. seriously what you might have a nice time to. come up with there you go. through. one more. thing with the spread now. not. it's got a fuckin period or something oh oh oh i'm so you right. i'm on. the. go. to family right. i'm sticking to. the hollywood reporter wrote of your performance also outstanding is everett he had

a four known as a leading new york cabaret singer still looking on the younger side of middle age she was nonetheless not afraid to come here as gross and repellent of frustrated woman who never had the career she wanted his letters of go and is done nothing to repair her daughter for a better life than she's had this could send you on your way to a new type career and we'll see. i mean it was it's a great experience and it's a really wonderful movie i'm happy to be a part of others you feel about the role how did you get into. well she's you know like i said i waited tables for twenty five years so like that feeling of frustration i feel and trapped in your life and like things got away from you it wasn't really that hard you know and i had. my mom you know she's a single mother drank off i just really related to her sort of instantly it was really more about just getting over the fear of. being an actor or whatever because i write my own stuff i you know i write direct i do everything for my own so so it

was it was interesting to let go and let somebody else you know if you had someone direct you well i mean you had jeremy that wrote and directed this he wrote all the music and the lyrics all the raps and everything it's his first movie and i just immediately trusted him and if and i felt comfortable and safe with him if it weren't for him i never would have been able to do something like this some of our viewers know you best probably from inside amy schumer yeah what have you done with her. change your life she's changed my life she's another angel what we've got it just for laughs comedy festival maybe two thousand and nine or something and she asked me to go out on some road dates with her and i was like i'm a cabaret singer i'm not really like i'm not going to work in a comedy club and she's like trust me they're going to they're going to like you i like you they like you so she took me out on some road so i was and then she started her show up in she would feature at the she would close every season with me singing a song in joe's pub and so it's incredibly generous for somebody to let somebody

else close out their season other sell and see and i've toured all around the country with tell me you have your own show premiering on amazon called love you more when those that comes out september first i wrote it with bobcat goldthwait michael patrick king and. yeah it's love you more what's it about it's it's about it you know like a woman with like a messy personal life it's great at her day job but she has a big heart and she's working towards feeling like she's worthy of love and never made is played by loni anderson here. how is she doing oh my god she's incredible she's so her performance of this is funny and beautiful and really touching and she's like an angel i'm sure you've met her along the way she's this is all your baby right yeah yeah you know what you'll be a big time now baby well have described a pageant and scratch and crawl and getting beyond cabaret. so they have bridget on her seemed good telling her guilty pleasure craving no more it will be right back.

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all the world. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of partners are. often more. personal. in many ways the news landscape is just like the real news fake news good actors bad actors and in the end you could never. see the park in all the world all the world's a stage all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. on this day and you said recently sometimes you have to create this thing in the reason to see. so you'd likely. getting your own work yeah i just did it out of necessity i think like that's what the stage show isn't and i want to

be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that has to sing and drink around a piano side is create have you have rough patches oh yeah who doesn't who doesn't or does d d h d you stand for. l.l. cool j. . oprah on one of those live classes that she does. you know as it stands for dreams on have deadlines and something that he says and at first i thought that was so corny but like now i just want to tattoo all over my body because it's true i mean my i'm forty five and my career is just sort of really kicking into gear so you know you have to hold on to something when you're not living the dream and i are bigots to live the dream but you know when tables wasn't something that i thought i would be doing for twenty five you a good way to this. was you farrah by fake i mean it was pretty horrible but i did all right funny with the clientele. we play

a game of if you only knew i can't wait who is your childhood so liberty crush barry manilow still mike still my crush secret talent. i can make my boobs going. to start interesting when you're with someone. most of that person you trade places with for a day. bored in. bed with his job you have a head. pass i can't think of anything right now nothing weird ok guilty pleasure. is it go to i like to stay home on saturday nights and drink wine and watch documentaries with my dog poppy. you know your dog like the documentaries too. well actually what we both do is we go on petfinder dot

com because you know i love to look at rescue animals like out that's my dream is that i have a houseful of them while you're home on saturday night because like my my professional life is the social life you know you go i'm going to date. i'm single . who never fails to make you laugh. amy. schumer the best piece of advice you ever got. to jump off a cliff and take a chance on yourself what's your go to karaoke song. that you are in all honesty or is that the worst piece of advice you ever got. that ideas are stupid don't listen to your style something you wish you were better at. golfing best compliment you ever got. my mom came to see my show and she said that that was freedom and motion good line

strangers fan encounter. gloria steinem came to one of my shows set up a little late as he was coming from a premiere and i see walked in late i turned around i was like. just never i've never really respect recovered from that because she's the queen is this something you belong to believed to be true and realize wasn't. finds its way to everybody. you're right tell me something we don't know about you . i didn't know that about the breasts revolving. something they don't know about me i. don't know i'm such an open book i guess. we are open book yeah maybe that's it i don't know secrets there's no secrets we

have some social media questions zack is god s do you ever get nervous about interacting with the audience at your shows things can get physical or does he mean well i mean like the motorboat in and pick women up and play him like a guitar because a says that once it's. enclosures show by sitting on someone first really the airplane that's like the big you know like you know i file on them and then i was on their face i know that that sounds like very involved but it's really just to make everybody feel alive though erotic it's not it's not meant to be erotic it's meant to be something else but. i don't get nervous i feel in charge how do you decide to do that sit on someone's face just seem like a good idea and i've never been able to shake it oh jeez stink baby what's your favorite kind of pizza. mushroom fresh mushroom don't like that suffer macan

no thank you garvin eighty seven i would love to hear your thoughts about growing up in rural kansas i would feel your brother bread and you two are polar opposites we are our very different my brother has four kids he's a republican i'm you know lefty. it was good i grew up in a cause town and city met in kansas the little apple university yakin state university is a great place to grow up. but i cannot wait to get out i love to go on a visit but it's just. i don't know i'd like you know walking to the park and being on the swim team and all that cool stuff and my brother was the mayor so is my dad so i'm basically like kennedy except for other things and they are yes it was my dad you go to kansas state now i went to arizona state i got a scholarship for saying in and i was out liza foster is sixty eight tweets why aren't you a superstar yet. well that's a good question it is

a good question i think you're no not wow she's super not and i think any time you're a little bit different you have to wake the people up and let them see you and it's just taken a while but i'm not going anywhere where your act is very different right yeah but you know it's people come and they come back again and again and again so. we would you try a lot of things right dramatic actually you know you adventurous some now i'm terrified that's the thing that people don't know about me i look don't they i have i'm terrified but you see it on people's faces. it does seem like a little bit of dick contradictory yeah now that i think about it but it's like in my personal life i'm so i'm not as assured as i am on stage or as a performer for some reason that this feels like the superhuman part of me and for

sure in control because i'm in control and when i'm not in control that i guess that's why i stay home with my date night is the mexican side of my dog poppy is that something you would like to try but i haven't. maybe the dancing with larry king. when can we do that are you performing anywhere near here i'm not going to do that you know. yet i've got to you've got a great life i'm. here a legend you know i want to put a about i want to be the black mark on that the new goals changed over the years yeah my goal is always just like whatever the thing is in front of me and i think the last couple years have proven to me that i can be better and go further than i ever dreamed of he said about patti cage i'm really excited up how to cakes i'm excited about love you more because it's it's like the funny side of the serious

side of me and you know and writing and everything and. i'm just constantly waiting for a new thing to happen so some of you get in august and choose your family over politics. my brother brad and from kansas the trumps and he's not i thought i found out that nobody in my family voted for term which is really stressing me out like i can't go home you know especially now the you know the more the tide swells it's really difficult but. my nieces there are feminists and my and i would rather voters so trumbo he didn't i think he voted for the i'm sure he voted for the third party and there's no way voting for hillary but. yeah we. we disagree on some things what do you make of trump. i mean feels like he's a a little boy with big toys and he's not really thinking about the consequences of

his actions and it's really scary do you use him in your act. well i wrote a song that for all my girlfriends actually have the ring on it's called back. he grabs but yeah and all the proceeds go to planned parenthood and you can get it on my website but that's really i'm not like a political comedian or singer is i mean i am in the way that i am what i am and sexualize woman is political in itself but i don't really like to comment on things specifically but but as you know a feminist and a woman when you know when that happened like with the you know gone by the you know whatever as i cannot live with this and amanda do i take is a writer and humorist and she coined that phrase and i make that into a song so my band and i wrote it and it feels very cathartic to sing it and people love it great meeting you bridge it's a pleasure. thank my guests that in cases in theaters august eighteenth you can

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that it. was. after our. north korea files a test missile that flies over the territory of japan branding in the pacific ocean south korea has conducted the airforce trails in response. muslims and refugees are the least welcomed groups in germany according to a new major study that says chancellor merkel plans to continue her open door policy for migrants. a six year old girl survives friday's a ledge sounded like coalition air strike in yemen that killed at least fourteen civilians and. that's it for me for now kevin owen will be live from here almost studio in around an hour's time thanks well to international peace lavelle's.