banking executive for his opinion on regulations and then was a panel with michael hastings and david sirota looking at the leaking scandal that's engulfed the white house this week happens to be forty years since the watergate scandal began with the break in so we can compare the reactions then and now we'll have all of that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media decided to miss. i'm going to try and keep this sweet and short today let's just say that there is a lot going on in the news and so the mainstream media is all over the place. jamie diamond explaining how j.p. morgan chase lost more than two were billion dollars attorney general eric holder facing new fire from republicans over the fast and furious botched gun sting programs president obama and mitt romney trade barbs over who understands the economic suffering of americans more caramel of a kid not being greedy and seen your traditional ice cream sundaes movie star sure marching to the seat once held by the injured congresswoman gabrielle giffords rushes defen

with me david sirota writer at salon dot com and author of the book a back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty explain the world we live in now and hopefully we're trying to get our second guest michael hastings there on the line to david we will start with you and thanks for joining us tonight i have to say also that there is actually a letter out there that is crafted by dennis kucinich and there may be ten other signatories out there right now that are asking for a little more transparency and openness on the drone program when it comes to the obama administration but. it is taking this anniversary the watergate thing into account how times change in terms of the reaction of the things that are happening now when it comes to the leaks what's really change is that there is a war on leakers and whistleblowers as opposed to questions being raised about what is being wreaked about i wrote on my twitter feed the announcement that there's going to be an investigation into the leaking about the president's kill list rather than an an investigation or concurrently an investigati

david sirota and the supreme court, everybody watching for the big decision.ock this morning. the big question to me is: so who is running this country anymore? do you really think the white house is? do you think the congress is? i think it's the supreme court. i think we are going to see it again this week, and i don't like it. 866-55-press. how about you? we will be right back. >> on your radio, on t.v. the bill press show, new on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >>every weeknight cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>overwhelming majority of the county says: "tax the rich don't go to war." you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. >> stephanie: why am i paying taxes for schools. >> i'd rather have hooligans running through the neighborrish l

two thousand and twenty eight so why does mitt romney actually want to reverse this move will david sirota gave us his thoughts on the subject when he spoke with us last week. student debt is a huge financial goal right now in a lot of people are making a lot of money off of student debt we are a country that makes it financially very difficult and certainly comparatively difficult to other industrialized nations for choose to get an education mitt romney and his friends in the financial sector make a lot of money off of that so we're talking about education but what we're really talking about is deeper ideology and i think president obama this is one area of education as opposed to q two twelve education where the president obama obama administration is far better. but how different with student loans under romney really be according to her poor released yesterday by us per the two thousand and ten changes seem to be more of a nuisance than a barrier when it comes to scamming students in taxpayers see banks and financial firms they have been skirting the rules anyway by getting colleges t

bringing in david sirota from am760 and a contributor to salon.com.hey have the fiduciary duty to make every cent i can. that's why they ship to china. >> that's true. executives have a legal responsibility to maximize that red chunk in that pie chart that shareholders could sue apple if they had a suit to bring saying you are not doing anything to maximize profit. that's why this story of apple is more of a story of the laws that allow apple, encourage apple and require apple to do what it does. we have structured our laws to say to apple this is the business model you must build and you should build. it's time for us to say if we want to bring apple jobs back to america, if we want to bring other kinds of jobs back to america it means looking at the policies that essentially create that pie chart. >> cenk: david, there are two policy tracks. there is the right wing track that says we should be more like china. tell me what kind of world that leads us to? >> it's a frightening world. there was a report that said the united states out of all the indus