and that's why they won't drown out your voices anymore when i am president of the united states ok. all right so this is interesting so if you visit the white house chances are you sign at the front you put your name on the white house lobby so we see president obama talking about lobbyists and how they won't influence his decisions he won't they won't influence his campaign it turns out a whole lot of them have been paying visits to the white house either to meet with the president himself or to meet with some of his top staffers so it's really interesting because it was the washington reporters have taken a look at these white house logs and really sort of dissected whose names are in them big lobbyist including the beef c.e.o. that made pink slime coming into the white house what do you guys think oh you know . it shows again this this huge gap but also the inevitability of what happens when you boost and goose government i mean for one thing you're not going to get rid of law obvious while you're expanding the government from two point nine trillion to three point five trillion

only finished paying more for student loans about eight years ago think about the present the united states. oh. ok. i mean it's smart but i don't know that the president can really empathize with students that are completely drowning in debt but it also seems that twenty eight college presidents don't really get it either it's quite ironic they've pledged to give over some of their salary to fight global poverty you donate five percent of their salaries meanwhile their students are drowning in debt and in fact show that data shows that a quarter of millennialism don't even make enough money to cover their basic needs so that speaks to both the problem of debt and the problem of when they get out of college with the kind of money they can actually make you know well the universe is a rock at the educational system. the universe is the meanest it's a rocket it's socially just a passport that you're paying for to use to travel around the workforce in america if you want to white collar job but you don't actually learn the thing and most of the universities and the onus is on you to learn no i mean i

united states house of representatives the united states constitution is silent on how representatives of so how do our elected it would basically we could have to decide on what kind of districts we'd want ok so in a state with that had nine seats that they send the congress we'd have three three member districts ok and then would there would be a twenty five percent threshold so if a candidate crossed that then they would win election and so there'd be a republican a democrat and then an or an independent or a third party spot a lower threshold and if you pay taxes and you're subject to the laws of the land then you merits representation and i think we will get usual fair vote now another alternative is that instead of voting is a runoff voting is a preferential ballot it's like a lot of municipalities have a runoff where you have a first stage of election a primary one time and that's where all the candidates run against each other and then the top two vote getters go on to the general election so it takes two elections to do that so some voters if their favorite candidate was kicked off in the primary and they'd have to have a second choice in the general election all with instant runof

mind then they will when you when the united states says well here hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have to say what leadership and what they will should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here years you know i think that what we have to first of all get rid of some illusions one is that i think we exaggerate what we mean by unilateralism i would like to suggest that when most of these powers act they all is the figure of the security council or the so-called coalitions of the willing very rarely has there been one country as it were going it alone if you look back from the period after the end of the soviet union forward most of the interventions have happened either with security council authorization. and. the security council authorization once the invasion has begun and that latter example of course is cost of war where the war begins and then they go to the security council for. so i think let's not have a caricature idea of unilateralism in

issue how is it possible that any person elected to serve the united states congress and represent the people the united states would think it's ok to allow jobs that are perfectly well done by by american citizens to be sent offshore i mean these are our friends and our neighbors and our and our colleagues that are losing forty and fifty thousand dollars a year jobs just so a bank or some other entity can pay have their bottom line i mean this is unconscionable and i simply don't see i don't understand why all four hundred thirty four of my colleagues haven't signed on to this legislation in the house i absolutely agree and very very well said representative tim bishop i wish you the very best of this legislation thank you for your efforts thank you for having me on thank you call your member of congress and tell them to support this critical piece of legislation for american workers and consumers. in the rest of the rest of the news mitt romney released his so-called plan for educating students in america last week and to no one surprise the plan has very little help students in america for higher education rather than promote

what he called more than fifty percent of republicans the united states believe that obama was not born in the united states so that's amazing yeah ok well it doesn't matter where he's from we just want to send i think and i think romney is the son of your certificate because well actually it's kind of a cheap shot i'll leave that chris solomon and sam sachs marc harrold thank you all for thank you. i. think you know mitt romney used to be the governor of massachusetts probably not because mitt doesn't like talking about instead mid likes to talk about his time in the private sector as a businessman in fact romney thinks being a businessman qualifies him to be president more than having been a governor does. i spent my life in the private sector i have not been been employed by washington i've been employed in the private sector like you have i want to use that experience to get america working again and saw the challenges of this great nation basically in its argument is that it will take a businessman in government to get us out of this recession and this is a message the seems to be resonating with typical frustrated low informat

united states army? it is unbelievable. i am just curious, did i leave any branch of the service out? united states marine corps. ok.is time, tom selleck will be introducing to you our next speaker. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a great leader and warrior. general martin dempsey. >> thanks, tom. thank you for your heartfelt words and your service in the army national guard. as we gather here at the vietnam veterans memorial, our veterans are gathering at cemeteries across the country. soldiers of the third infantry division and the honor guards of every service are on patrol making sure that 260,000 flags stand tall. row after row after row. at white pines cemetery a single widow presses a flag into the ground just like she did last year and the year before that. whether by the thousands or by ourselves, we all feel a common resolve on memorial day to pause, if only for a moment, and remember. this solemn tradition began in 1868 when decoration day was proclaimed by the commander of the army of the republic. since our republic's founding, nearly 2.5 million of our countrymen and women have made their breas

there's violence on all sides ok so i mean is the united states going to finally get lucky and back the right guy. the serendipity that i mean. probably not i mean we certainly don't have a very good track record i mean it's a difficult position for us to be in and i don't think it's necessarily a question of either or in terms of real politic or humanitarian intervention i think you know policymakers do to some extent very much care about the people of syria and obviously they have their own interests as well but you know if you look at our track record of supporting insurgencies against incumbent regimes we're pretty much we pretty much have zero victories in that i mean the only successful example i can think of in terms of actually overthrowing the regime would probably be. in afghanistan and that didn't turn out exactly turn out exactly the way it's a sit in if i can go to you in dubai i mean how close do you think we are to a military invention intervention because western media is following the right the same tune that we heard with the inv

united states i've always believed it was kind of a p.r. stunt i never believed in the reset because the united states and russia have mutual interest they have also things that they disagree on ok that's called the nation's foreign policy my thing mr putin will continue the course what we've seen over the last four years which he has actually established during his presidency during his eight years in office ok vladimir putin has gone through st andrews an exam designed to st george's reception holes of the ground. there this year the national flag and presidential standard carried with him over to the should value. so help you know. yeah it seems we're seeing restrictions you really are a nice guy viewer is brutally honest so when you were here in russia new president it seems like yesterday almost four years of the you and i was sitting here actually took us a day or two to get used to. say everyone should do it everyone should be fined one hundred bucks every time they made the. last five hundred dollars they were sure that there was a token newsroom for the year to make them a cup of tea at the time it was very very grand kremlin palace from the outside saying that's not wh

help us right now her first home and help for her cries cross the united states we haven't heard anything from him ok her so right now. we're here you. hear her brother whom we're going back a fair harvey so max that's the national people's action and they're they're using the words of reform pleading with timothy geitner who enabled who allowed this crime to happen who scilla tainted the massive crime against the u.s. population and the u.s. banking system to happen and they're pleading with him to introduce a transaction tax on these criminal transactions yeah i think the american people are confused about what religion they have in america i mean in islamic tradition you go. moola and he gives you a crumb and a handout every month or so that's part of the of the muslim tradition but here you have people lined out geithner's home i think is part of the protestant group he's done obligated to give out promised americans what do these people doing outside of the south they're not going to get any crumbs but it's more than that it's just a very simple thing there's nothing mystical or mysterious or my

is made in the united states by the united states and united states foreign policy is largely made by the israeli lobby so it doesn't change no matter who is in charge in paris. he's ok in harmony with a bomb but what about the french people though in harmony with them firstly does france have an appetite to get involved in another military intervention such as libya on a cost basis is going to cost a lot of money and in times of hard economic times and in europe as a whole that is not good news and also an appetite for the french military to be seen there in syria. well you see. no perfected this kind of war starting in the course of the war and in libya where nobody gets hurt nobody on our side the victims are all on the ground and we're up in the air or we are now even sending drones or the people on the ground are in fact mercenaries from libya into syria from qatar arab states and so it's it's just i mean it's been a lot of money on the military anyway with their exercises so it doesn't look as if it costs that much and it doesn't post anything in human life and our goals in life so there doesn't matter none of this talk about the latest reaction many countries

ok now when. girl had been raped by united states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated dio can only people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some of peace activists got in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they let the base people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so a week of lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the ireland and i saw the bases was still here i i just couldn't believe it. it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the end of world war two these spaces have been here. this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries what kind of problems does it saw. or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people. i think people get really angry you know at the idea that we are poli

united states and california in support of great principles. every day our members show courage in bay area courts, and we do ok in the big battles as well. who will ever forget the extraordinary accomplishments of john in defending our college, patrick, from a crazy federal prosecutor in nevada? that level of talent and that level of courage is unique, but every day criminal courts in the bay area shine because my colleagues from ctla are working there. recently ctla issued a public statement against the death penalty. ctla joins other groups and individuals here today in calling for permanent incarceration as california's alternative to the death penalty. this city and county has a great san francisco public defender and we want to express our thanks to jeff adachi for his support of ctla over the years and for his gratitude for being here today. thank you for your taxi and have a great conference -- thank you for your attention and have a great conference. [applause] >> i also want to acknowledge the public defender, past-present president of the california lawyers association. thank you for being here. now, we have our 50th anniversar

united states has a liberal extradition laws in three to fast track to. extremely serious charges. the aiding the enemy by the release it would be ok but. i think this will send a chilling effect to potential be so close that if they do. the secrecy and indeed in many cases. the united states they will face retribution but that's bad for democracy it's bad for human rights and is why he has many supporters have to ensure that neither it nor we keeley. now the occupy movement is also struggling to be heard having been silenced by police and ignored by the mainstream media so its leaders join julian assange on his exclusive interview series here in our two were they tackled the cornerstone of democracy freedom of speech he wants that in full this hour here's a preview. i think in terms of the rule of law i mean my own experience just is if one citizen one dollar one vote is so radical that it's got me written up in australian security mag you know. and i'm getting private messages from other security contractors that have relationships with the f.b.i. telling me that you know be careful you're somehow connected to al qaeda that tells me me

united states because hamas won't recognize israel the logical question is can you name a single israeli government official political party which has ever recognized a palestinian state within its internationally legal borders very. wrong i'm wrong ok how about international law where of course you agree with that they said. by palestinian territories the whole of the west bank and gaza you agree with the core no the point is just like me with the far right in this you know very well this is. happening with the whole buying fall necessary to implement do you agree with their opinion. do you agree with their opinion. by here is what i'm the argument which i think as a certain amount of credibility as the argument but i want to look at the sea so the argument goes something like this house armed has a special meaning for jews that from a biblical narrative you of point of view of the history of the jewish. palestine has a substantial resonance for the true issue. to imagine i'd sure stay in charge. in uganda or elsewhere simply the work of the jewish people who makes no sense i'm bashing the jewish state house are made sense for the jewish people. we're talking to professor alan dershowitz he's author of a new book it's called the ca

bankruptcy courts not really a court it's part of the intersection of branch ok there's only three kinds of equity courts and united states district courts courts of appeal the supreme court they're the only ones who can make decisions about wife and limb and judgments you know the words to restrain property in the bankruptcy process the judge and the trustee are just concerned with the defunct entity and then i see a state that's right to state of the bankrupt entity whether it's a company or. person so there's really nobody to represent the interests of the third party back in the twenty's it was very common for the trustee to also be appointed receiver the difference is the receiver has authority from the federal district court very different so if stanford group for example you had a big fraud no bankruptcy the victims in the fraud simply went to a federal judge and so this fraud we need a receiver and that individual was able to not only get the money back but he was able to pursue bad actors and he was able to refer to the u.s. attorney for criminal prosecution they have a much broader powers and unfortunately the v

ok let's let's stop using the. frances boils cause seems a desperate one the united states continued to make use of uranium in developing their military arsenal. in two thousand and three one year before the battle of fallujah donald rumsfeld then defense secretary made a reference before the u.s. congress to the use of a new weapon the hellfire missile. the new missile can take out the first floor of a building without damaging the floors above and is capable of reaching around corners striking enemy forces that hiding or bunkers this declaration went largely unnoticed but it heralded the development of a new missile that would be tested during the early days of the war in iraq. some experts did react to rumsfeld declaration one of them was arms researcher di williams says. this scientist is a member of the u.n. institute for disarmament research. he claims the hellfire missile is a new generation bomb it was used several times during the battle of fallujah the experts call it a thermobaric weapons. they were using small tactical weapons that they wanted these new thermobaric weapons which are specifically designed for

being of the people of the united states so i think it is incumbent on us as part of this conversation to think about the role of money and how we can reinvent the creation of money ok christopher what do you think about that because a lot of people would say in light of what we just heard from mark is that you know it's still the market is the best mechanism to decide on the distribution of investment into an economy would you still do that in light of the conversation we've had about well being and happiness yes absolutely yes i mean the prices and bodies are to be decided by the market i would be very wary but the market hasn't done very well but you christopher the market hasn't done very well recently and for men for actually quite a few years for quite a few people. there's no there's no reason to think there's a sort of top down government control would do any better we we seem to move on from general wellbeing science which is fairly hazy to blaming the whole of capitalism on the events of recent years which is really just an issue with one section of the banking system. ok you know me and mark you want to jump in there you obviously have the impression you

index in the united states so we already are setting precedent i think we need a new accounting system not simply another index but an accounting system that actually measures well being ok christopher what do you think about that can you do it can you i can measure g.d.p. but kind of how could how do you measure happiness. all you can do really is asked people how happy they feel generally on a scale of zero to ten and people generally say in reasonably wealthy western societies that there are seven or eight and this is been the case for many years so although things quite interesting to do these days from a policy point of view they have very little relevance and the very little use ok some we get we have two points of view here what do you thing what are you following on that. well for years economists have been talked about and have dreamed about having a way of measuring utility being able to measure the success of an economy they have tended to use sort of measures i mean we fall back on things like g.d.p. because that same as easy to measure we could have on our balance sheet we can count things and in the beginning of the nineteenth century in. the twentieth cent