well i'm tom arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture although it's june twenty fourth teen it certainly feels like march two thousand and three with all the appearances neocons like dick cheney are making and cable news shows it is history repeating itself in the worst possible way or as the mainstream media actually learned its lesson from the lead up to the iraq war more on that with tom in just a moment also some time the next two weeks the supreme court could strike down one of obamacare as most popular components it prevents employers from discriminating against women so will the birth control mandate get struck down or will the court do what it did back in two thousand and twelve with the right of states to opt out of the medicaid expansion and take another bite out of obamacare and the republican party likes to say that it's the pro-life party but it's really the party of death i'll tell you how and why in tonight's debate. you know this the neocons are back in their back wit

long tom arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. earlier today president obama announced some sweeping action to help millions of americans suffering through the student loan debt epidemic but is the president's announcement mean for the average american buried in student loan debt and what else still needs to be done to address this trillion dollar problem also the a.p. is now reporting that sergeant bowe bergdahl was repeatedly tortured and kept in a cage during his time in captivity with the taliban how will this new iteration affect your public and parties relentless efforts to bash bergdahl and his release and as i speak millions of americans are worrying about how they're going to put food on the table tomorrow night for the kids so could a universal basic income be the solution to our nation's poverty problem. you need to know this the obama administration is taking action to fight the student debt crisis earlier today president obama announced in a white house event that he was signing an executive order to put a monthly lim

full on tom arbonne a new york city and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture over the past few decades the american dream has fallen out of the reach of many middle class families how did this happen and who or what is responsible more on that in tonight's conversations with great minds with pulitzer prize winning journalist and rick smith in just a moment and monster wildfires in california pushed global warming back to the top of the headlines these scenes of devastation are just a preview of what the world will be like if we don't do something soon to take action against global warming so how much time do we have before climate doomsday is upon us more on that later on tonight show. for tonight's conversations in the great minds i'm joined by one of america's most distinguished journalists hedrick smith is a pulitzer prize winning reporter.

brother back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour the bill clinton monica lewinsky affair will go down as one of the most memorable events of the one nine hundred ninety s. but what was the significance of that event and how did it forever change politics in america and republicans across america are ignoring little flies workers and giving billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to corporations and the wealthy elite while screwing over the rest of us so it shouldn't really come as a surprise that the number of americans committing suicide is at record highs. and in the best of the rest of the news looks like congress has some god so after all late thursday a large bipartisan majority of the house passed some sweeping n.s.a. reform legislation the house voted to strip the n.s.a. of its powers to go through american americans e-mail without a warrant to prohibit the n.s.a. from pressuring tech companies like google from installing so-called back doors and to prevent the n.s.a. from going around government created internet encryption standards while the two ni

well i'm tom arbonne a new york city and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture over the past few decades the american dream has fallen out of the reach of many middle class families how did this happen and who or what is responsible more on that in tonight's conversations with great minds with pulitzer prize winning journalist edward smith in just a moment and monster wildfires in california pushed global warming back to the top of the headlines these scenes of devastation are just a preview of what the world will be like if we don't do something soon to take action against global warming so how much time do we have before climate doomsday is upon us more on that later on tonight show. for tonight's conversations in the great minds i'm joined by one of america's most distinguished journalists hedrick smith is a pulitzer prize winning reporter and emmy award winning producer who has been covering american politics and society for over five decades he spent twenty six years with the new york times at one point serving as that paper's chief diplomatic correspondent and is c

hello i'm tom arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. earlier this morning e.p.a. administrator gina mccarthy formally unveiled a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by thirty percent by two thousand and thirty one of the details of that plan and what kind of impact will it have on the push for a global climate change policy more on that first of all also during the late one nine hundred sixty s. nearly nine hundred seventy s. the man known only as the zodiac killer terrorized the san francisco bay area killing at least five and maybe as many is over thirty people zodiacs identity has been a mystery for decades but now a louisiana man says that is father was the killer every finally found out the truth about one of america's most notorious mass murders the answer later on in the show. you need to know this the obama administration is taking its bold a step yet in the fight against global warming earlier this morning the environmental protection aid. and see the e.p.a. and baled a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions fr

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