and here now to talk about this is allison kilkenny she is a reporter for alter net who has been covering the wall street protests and she was on the brooklyn bridge saturday so she can tell us exactly what happened thank you so much for being on the show i've been following all your coverage and you've been doing such a good job it's great to talk to you thanks very much and actually covering it over the nation excuse me i'm so sorry about it ok well for the nation now first of all i know that you were out there on the brooklyn bridge and there's been a lot of confusion and different accounts over just what happened that led police to arrest more than seven hundred protesters. why were so many people arrested you were there i actually i wasn't there but from what i gather from other reports and other journalists i know are there so that the protesters are claiming that the well we. have heard of them actually on to the bridge and they were never told at any point to turn around or to stop now the n.y.p.d. directly contradicts that claim that that they did tell the protesters that they we

and earlier i spoke with allison kilkenny she's been covering the wall street protests for the nation here's what she had to say. from what i gather from other reporters and other journalists right now we're there so that other protesters are claiming that the police. escorted them actually on to the bridge and they were never told at any point to turn around or to stop now the n.y.p.d. directly contradict that claim and that is that they did tell the protesters that they would stop them on a captain i believe at some point use the bullhorn telling them to turn around now if your is about this is there's been video emerging online showing that indeed the protesters or excuse me the please either let the protesters across the bridge or were possibly marching at the front of this group believing that at some point it happened deducible weren't telling them that they would be arrested but it's unclear when that happened but protesters say that a bullhorn the first time open we're not here to lose and so letting had already been pulled behind them and there was no way for them to retreat

street johnson made a trip down to the park himself last night we're also going to catch up with allison kilkenny who's been on the grounds of cloudy since day one to bring us the latest on the occupiers demands to not have any demands and a new poll that shows that americans blame the government more than wall street for the financial mess that we're ahead then scott horan is going to join us to discuss the weapons deal between the u.s. and bahrain on tuesday was reportedly finalized today it was announced that they're awaiting a human rights report results to make the final decision so are we finally using discretion with who we sell arms to or is this just a temporary distraction we're going to all that morphy tonight clinical dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so last night c.n.n. hosted another g.o.p. presidential debate and this time it was in las vegas so i can imagine all the journalists covering it are loving that one but anyway last night we finally saw the debates break down into the personal attacks that eventually start t

and reporter allison kilkenny says it's the pent up anger of corporate america that fueling the fire and attracting supporters to the movement. but we definitely aren't seeing an arab spring movement right now but that doesn't mean it's not going to get there. it does have the youth revolutionary spirit behind it we're seeing other occupying movements beginning now we're seeing a thousands of people showing up we're seeing the involvement of prominent unions we're seeing the involvement of prominent individuals we're seeing these franchises for have across the country but when you speak to these protesters there is a definite theme got you know it is a criticism against wall street it is an anti-corporate has a message they run to get the corporate money out of politics that's the big message it's not a democratic movement this really is an anti-establishment movement corporate cash as you know influenced our politics to the point where it's completely corrupt it may just represent the one percenters they don't represent what they call the ninety nine percent clash of the titans two

think that they should take their protests to washington instead join me to discuss this is allison kilkenny co-host of citizen radio active tribune reporter for the nation allison i want to thank you for joining us tonight before we get into these polls i know that last night some of the protesters went to how things and post events where they want to talk to governor cuomo and even naomi wolf the author got arrested there were you there can you tell us what went on. i was there during the initial march to the d.a.'s office which was in response to those two we spirituality from the n.y.p.d. pepper spraying individuals i beating really trojan horses into the crowd really anything you can imagine merely reading people who are actually running over a person in one piece of a motorcycle but after they were at ease up as they found out that governor cuomo was saving a game changer award at huffington post that which is very ironic considering that. refused to choose. tax millionaires so i'm not quite sure how you changing the game in that respect but because he refused to tax millionaires. even

covering it and i'll be on with allison kilkenny of the nation and citizen radio so it is getting some press over the weekend the other thing about the weekend is that it's a time when people aren't working right and so that's the time when the numbers in liberty plaza park find themselves spiking a lot because they will be hard as the larger question here is that you know it seems like the possibility of a violent confrontation with police is greater on the weekend for all these reasons our. plans to prevent that or are you anticipating that. today i talked with the executive director of the n y c o u who. this whole week we've been in conversation about having observers there to make to sort of supplant the media as the sort of a botched roll i that can make cops apprehensive about using violence but today she told me that actually folks have been my seal you're gathering that it's not going to be a very vent for weekend on that front so here's open it's a good sign i mean you know it was because it was last week and with so many ok last question we have just a little less than a min