up next the big picture with thom hartmann stay with us. well john are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture a new report out says the global cancer rates will increase seventy five percent by twenty thirty how does your diet affect your risk of developing cancer and what are some of the most effective ways to protect yourself from that disease will pose those questions and more to dr mitchell gainer tonight's conversations with great minds also have republicans convinced americans that obamacare has to go and want to better and company hate minimum wage increases so much that and more internets big picture rubble.

it is important to focus on the big picture of the future of the city. someone made a comment to meet a week ago, someone who's not really involved in politics or land-use. they said to me that some of the projects --wow, san francisco actually has a future. i think we need to focus on that. there are issues we will discuss and work through. we need to work hard on that. we have to keep our eye also on the big picture of the future of this city. i just wanted to note that. supervisor mar: -- -- thank you, supervisor. the 13 items on the agenda today, we will be having three more hearings. there is an appeal filed. we are planning to not take action on them that this committee but they will have full and thorough analysis in a hearing. at the board level, that is where action will be taken in the middle of july. i would like to call up the planning director. there are a number of speakers. we have the planning department, cpmc, andy smith group architects followed by our department public health officials. then too rapid up -- wrap it up, rhonda. >> i am

back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the u.s. call center industry has laws after a million jobs over the last six years apparently that's not enough if you ask republicans in congress does this say about the republican party and its feelings for hardworking americans also michigan legislators are very close to letting for profit education companies destroy public education in that state all in the name corporate greed and out of the wallets who's behind this attack on public education and how can michiganders help stop it and mitt romney and paul ryan have been getting along really well lately maybe because paul ryan's budget would help the rich like romney get even richer but how do the rest of americans those who will get taxed more and can't afford to buy off someone in washington how do we fight back i'll tell you in tonight's daily to. brood news the u.s. call center industry has lost five hundred thousand jobs over the last six years thanks to corporations like bank of america wells fargo and t. mobile outsourcing american

i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. here good. luck in the aloneness so we'll get the real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . i'm laura mr. it's the good the bad in the very very few grossly ugly the good. old donor while the or doner while the fate of health care in america rests in the hands of the supreme court one illinois doctor is doing all he can right americans with quality affordable health care. is eighty seven years old and has been practicing medicine in rushville illinois since one nine hundred fifty five he charges five dollars for doctors' visits and has never taken a vacation and keeps his clinic open seven days a week rising medical cause across america causing many

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour florida governor jeb bush recently attacked the crazies in the republican party going after those legislators who support multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist tax pledge that bush's comments signal a change coming in the republican party one that could mean the end of the tea party and you've heard me say night after night that if america is going to get back on the right track it's going to take serious tax reform and reasonable taxes on people like mitt romney who pays less on his millions than cop a cops pay on their normal salaries well believe it or not there's one tax that i just can't stand i'll tell you why and it's believed. in the best of the rest of the news of the bush tax cuts set to expire on december thirty first republicans and democrats are drawing up their game plans first there is senator jeff merkley who is telling his fellow democrats in congress not to budge letting the bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year for the wealthiest two percent of americans in an interview with t.p.m.

and what's with the billionaires telling us when we should retire all that and more internet it's big picture rumble and what happens if you're the c.e.o. of a company that makes one of the biggest financial trading mistakes in history and you go to capitol hill to testify oh you're going to hear out on the back on explain in tonight's daily tale. conversations with great minds i'm joined by chris hayes chris is a political commentator and host of up with chris hayes which airs saturday and sunday mornings on m.s.n. b.c. he's also the editor at large of the nation magazine and writes on issues central to the progressive community including what is hurting the democratic party and how the labor movement is changing chris is a graduate of brown university a bachelor's degree in philosophy he's also the author of the critically acclaimed newly released book twilight of the elites america after meritocracy chris joins me now from our new york city studios chris welcome. oh it's great to be here tom thanks for having me great to have you with us chris before we get to the book i'm curious about yo

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. since the day president obama took office republicans have been systematically planning to destroy his presidency by taking down the american economy is an example of petty politics at its worst something even more sinister also why can't mitt romney stop lying it would increase transparency in washington destroy the republican party all that more in tonight's politics panel enters united dealy take it's the end of the world as we know it and use.

is friday are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture rubble or adam quietly editor in chief at net right daily erica new democratic strategist and michael warren writer with the weekly standard thank you all for joining me tonight great to have you with us earlier this week a group of house democrats led by jesse jackson jr proposed raising the minimum wage to ten bucks sounds like a lot but it turns out they actually called the act the catching up with one thousand nine hundred sixty eight act because if you were to inflation adjust the minimum wage of nine hundred sixty eight to today it would actually be over ten dollars so you know republicans are running around saying they want people to keep their hard earned money through tax cuts tax cuts that would affect people who make minimum wage but nonetheless why not pay people a living wage for their hard earned work what's wrong with a ten dollar minimum wage likely there's an economic are.

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture a new report out says the global cancer rates will increase seventy five percent by twenty thirty how does your diet affect your risk of developing cancer and what are some of the most effective ways to protect yourself from that disease will pose those questions and more to dr mitchell gaynor in tonight's conversations with great minds also have republicans convinced americans that obamacare has to go i want to be better in company hate minimum wage increases so much that and more incentives big picture rubble and what does the teapot dome scandal of the one nine hundred twenty s. have to do with speaker of the house john boehner today i'll tell you it take. for that i'd say conversations of great minds i'm joined by dr mitchell l. gainer dr gainer is founder and president of gainor integrative and oncology and clinical assistant professor of medicine at weill not a college affiliated with cornell university a new york hospital dr gainer is also former medical director and director of medical oncology at the weill cornell medica

ball go back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour if the supreme court overturns obamacare on thursday will really be a disaster for our country or could it be just what the doctor ordered for real comprehensive health care reform also yesterday the supreme court reaffirmed their citizens united decision saying montana can't keep corporate money out of its elections we'll talk with congressman adam schiff and see where the fight to get money out of politics stands after this latest blow and questions are flying around romney and obama as the campaigns heat up but there is one question no one in america is asking and maybe the most important question there is explained to night's daily take. in the best of the rest of the news with the supreme court's decision looming progressives across the nation are organizing to take advantage of a possible ruling against obamacare several progressive gloop groups including the national nurses united and the progressive change campaign committee arguing that a supreme court strike down of obamacare could renew hope for a nation

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture forty forty years ago a very few politicians flaunted their religious beliefs for personal gain so what's changed what's given rise to the christian right to american politics and pose that question and more to susan jacoby it's nice conversations and straight lines also are republicans using austerity to sabotage america why does mitt romney hate the american worker and his big oil bought out washington all that and more in tonight's big picture rumble and what does a two thousand and eight by dick morris have to do with our politics and economy today i'll tell you it tonight's deleted. for tonight's conversations in great minds i'm joined by susan jacoby susan is an author an independent scholar who focuses primarily on american intellectual history susan has received numerous awards and grants the guggenheim rockefeller and ford foundations as well as the national endowment for the humanities she started her writing career as a reporter for the washington post and has been a regular contributor for over twenty five years to publicly p

ok here's a big picture. here which i. love and they alone are still you know get the real headlines with none of them or see the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. .

so that your headlines up next the big picture with thom hartmann. blogs are going to washington d.c. and here is what's coming up tonight on the big picture former gingrich campaign backer and billionaire casino logos shoulder knaidel such as pledging unlimited donations to mitt romney's campaign is the american democracy dead when billionaires can funnel endless money into politics and take away the voice of the people also the world's richest man a man who doesn't have to worry about working at it in job thinks you should work until you're seventy one hardworking americans deserve to have a retirement years without billionaires telling them what they can and can't do.

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour just hours after the obamacare decision house republicans voted to hold attorney general holder in contempt of congress is there any merit for that vote or was it just another political stunt from the right to try to embarrass and an embarrassment for the nation also the american middle class has taken a beating over the last several years in some nations like china or the middle classes. that's behind the rise of the chinese middle class and should america be paying attention and there should never have been such a frenzy over the supreme court ruling today because obamacare should never have been a case before the court explain why in tonight's daily take. in the best of the us the news across the street from the supreme court republicans in the house of representatives voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress for his refusal to release documents pertaining to an ongoing law enforcement investigation. and i'm off to a small time criminal and richest man in congress darrell issa isis been

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour blatant racism is on the rise again in america and even worse its influence in politics in our nation why has racism become so useful to the far right in america what can be done to rip this cancer out of our body politic also federal investigators have found serious issues in california's san onofre nuclear power plant that despite the issues the operators want to keep the plant up and running what exactly is wrong with the plant and how much danger does a pose and thanks to citizens united both political parties in america are being flooded with corporate cash and some cynical pundits are arguing that they've become largely the same but despite what the commentators are saying there are still very clear differences between the democratic and republican party i'll explain in tonight's daily take. it what seems to be a daily occurrence someone in arizona has said something completely outrageous and offensive and no it's not sure joe or governor brewer this time it's local political talk show host barbara as s

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture from wall street to main street the wealthy elite have run roughshod over the lives of everyday americans for the past several decades how do we get to this point american history welcome be done to fix our broken democracy pose those questions and more to chris fades in tonight's conversations with great minds also does america have the best government money can buy and what's with billionaires telling us when we should retire all that and more into night's big picture rumble and what happens if you're the c.e.o. of a company that makes one of the biggest financial trading mistakes in history and you go to capitol hill to testify oh you're going to huge out on the back all explain in tonight's daily to. birthrights conversations with great minds i'm joined by chris hayes chris is a political commentator and host of up with chris hayes which airs saturday and sunday mornings on m.s.n. b.c. he's also the editor at large of the nation magazine and writes on issues central to the progressive community including what is hurting the democ

are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture i will as the robinson freelance journalist and deputy director of the paul revere project same sex progressive commentator and writer and brand arlene daily mail contributor and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you brian quick question was mitt romney standing on the road for the heritage foundation he gave it to i know it was a couple blocks down the street he was one of my heritage foundation i was certain i was ok i will be for it it just looks like that ok so obamacare is constitutional after all but republicans think that's a sign of the apocalypse you know it's a the the anti-christ apparently here republican congressman mike pence compared the ruling bill nine eleven mike davis former spokesman for the republican party in michigan is asking if it's now time for an armed revolt michael savage and bryan fischer are saying john roberts has gone off the edge because he's taking absence epilepsy medication this is a law that protects one hundred plus million americans who have preex

friday ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture rumble are as the robertson robinson excuse me deputy director of the paul revere project and contributor to human events and the blades and the national review nicole williams democratic strategist and attorney and judson phillips associate director of the tea party dot net and founder of tea party nation thank you all for being with me tonight let's start with us we know that it's crippling europe but it looks like it's also crippling the united states new study has found that in those states that have adopted republican austerity measures on employment is four point one points higher than before the recession six percent fewer private sector jobs state economy is growing two point seven percent slower than before the recession on the other hand in the largely blue democratic states that have increased spending that explicitly increase spending the economy's growing two point six percent faster than during the than before the recession here in the charts and you can see from them hopefully there we go and you can see from the

that's the big picture right here are today. well i'm john are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture from wall street to main street the wealthy elite have run roughshod over the lives of everyday americans for the past several decades how do we get to this point american history welcome be done to fix our broken democracy pose those questions and more to chris fades in tonight's conversations with great minds also does america have the best government money.

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as the world's largest superpower does the united states have a moral obligation to take military action to stop human rights atrocities pose that question and more to jared genser tonight's conversations with great minds also yesterday the supreme court upheld obamacare a law that will help the lives of millions of americans but despite its wide impact republicans are still full steam ahead when it comes to repealing the law why that and more enter night's big picture rumble and why you probably haven't heard of the supreme court case versus rena you probably definitely have heard of roe v wade why and what does this have to do with obamacare it's important because some cases have a huge lesson to teach us lessons that spanned decades and generations i'll explain in tonight's guilty. for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by jared genser sure it is the founder of freedom now an independent nonprofit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience around the world previously he was a partner in the government

of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . all right guys it's been nearly nine months since the movement that became known as the occupy wall street movement first started in new york with hundreds and then thousands of people taking over new york city's zuccotti park since then it has spread nationally and internationally and has changed the discussion about the state of the economy and the system in this country that i think it's safe to say benefits those at the top and keeps those at the bottom while at the bottom those involved have always called it a leaderless movement critics call it a bunch of dirty hippies with no direction but some of the more friendly critics they hate your messages about the ninety nine percent versus the one percent about a broken system and about inequality are good but now it's time to do something about it well one man plans to do just that joining me from our studio in new york is george martinez a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives in new york's seventh congressional district

welcome back to the big picture rumble on our panel tonight s.e. robinson freelance journalist and deputy director of the paul revere project and he's very anti-corporate. if you are sam sex progressive commentator and writer and brian darling daily mail contributor and director of government studies at the heritage foundation let's go back to congress passed a compromise deal to prevent student loan rates from interest rates from doubling this is just today and in the end it looks like students got screwed previously after you graduated from college there was a six month period where the government was basically covering the interest payments on your student loans you had a breathing space republicans were horrified by that and it was originally the senate bill but they took it out in the house republicans control the house and to get this thing passed the democrats want to long with it. all together this change is going to mean that students are going to pay an extra twenty billion dollars on their loans over the next decade and in the end right

comment the night comes from bobby a listener to my radio show and hopefully a new viewer of the big picture bobby had this question about a segment on my radio show last week i was listening to a rebroadcast on sunday on six twenty k.p.h. jay you picked by attention saying something about a clip from george w. bush that would quote blow your mind when we come back problem you didn't come back they went to ring of fire at midnight please tell me what the dang chips so curious thanks bobbie well here you go bob it was george w. bush talking about how he'd use the clinton surplus though and this course was before he decided to squander it with two unpaid wars a massive unpaid for tax cut for people like mitt romney this is from the for his first state of the union address in the spring of two thousand and one. many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt i listened and i agree. we owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now. and i hope you will join me to pay down two trillion dollars in debt during the next ten years. at the end of those ten years we'll have pa

and here is what's coming up tonight on the big picture america has become a nation of the haves and the have nots with a higher income inequality than the likes of venezuela kenya and even yemen so what's brought us to this defining moment in american history and how do we close the gap between the wealthy elite and everyone else and that is speaker of the house boehner really happy that our economy is on the brink of recession and can the department of justice stop florida's war on voting all that and more in tonight's big picture rubble and in tonight's daily take it looks like the republicans effort to crash the economy is finally paying off and boy are they bragging about a german chancellor show a little remorse for their actions. but the ones conversations in great minds i'm joined by timothy noah timothy is an american journalist and a senior editor at the new republic where he writes the t.r.p. column as well as a political blog he's also contributing editor to the washington monthly and frequent commentator on the c.b.s. news program sunday morning twenty ten he was a natio

welcome to the big picture. here or what. book and they alone as though they'll get the real headline with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . to the capital account i'm laurin mr. our let's continue talking about the economy tonight while the eurozone crisis may feel far away for a lot of americans and j.p. morgan's london whale trade might seem a little hard for some to comprehend we do have some charts night that show real world effects on our economy here on where we are as a country so we need to think business insider they put some of these together today and so first look at this chart that shows you that corporate profit margins just hit an all time high that means that companies are makin

it's friday are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture rumbalara marc harrold libertarian commentator attorney and author of observations of white noise and as a test for the first amendment nicole williams democratic strategist and judson phillips associate director of tea party the tea party dot net and founder of tea party nation thank you all for joining me and thank you let's get right into a new job numbers out today the good news is twenty seven straight months in a row jobs were created which is a whole lot different than when president obama came into office we were losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month the bad news is it was only sixty nine thousand net jobs and this is apparently there were several hundred over six hundred thousand jobs created but there were over five hundred high and thousand people that came into the job market speaker john boehner said this about the this news. it's pretty clear that you merican people are hurting spall small businesses continue to. avert hiring in additional people and it's clear that the policies that we've seen are n

are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture of all our heather servo conservative strategist an associate of blue skin solutions and blogger at heather's. erick annuity democratic strategist and vince colonies senior online editor at the daily caller welcome to all of you let's start out with the best government money can buy it seems like we officially have it shelly adelson has now come out and said he will pour at least one hundred million dollars into defeating president obama he's worth twenty five billion dollars so you know he probably would even notice one hundred million dollars there's a new report out that america's health insurance plans a hip the lobbying group for the health insurance industry. has. funneled more than one hundred million dollars through the chamber of commerce into this giant pool of cash and then we have the spectacle yesterday in the senate a block of senators basically throwing softballs and jamie diamond including chuck schumer the democrat bob corker and mike crapo other republicans all three of whom lose j.p. morgan chase is their number o

part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. hi guys so here we are at netroots and obviously one of the big topics for discussion here is the economy a lot of talk about unemployment a lot of talk about tax policy not so much when it comes to monetary policy if anything they have one panel about the federal reserve but it seems like it's more of an introductory class to the fed then a real honest discussion about it and so to talk more about that with me is matthew yglesias from slate and also author of the rent is too damn high so matt thanks for joining me tonight and you know why do you think that is like i just said that we don't really hear a whole lot about monetary policy or debt and deficits interest rates when you're at a progressive conference like netroots but you know for a long time i think the federal reserve was doing its job fairly well and the economy was. very stable ie you know for decades and so it sort of slipped out of you people start to think of it is very arcane because like all policy you know it's a

of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. that. would be. thank. you to. the guinness book of world records to register that their village has been demolished by israel thirty eight times jeff helper co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions they say it's a last ditch attempt to attract attention to their plight. i think this is an act of desperation they've turned to these radio courts for years and years and years he's really activists have gone down to try to resist the demolitions there's been international campaigns against a jewish national fund which is behind the demolitions of these homes and nothing is helps israel comes back in time and time again to demolish the homes of this small bedouin community that's been there since for hundreds of years and i think this is simply it's kind of a gimmick in a way to say to the world look we have no more redress you know in the end the the court of last resort is public opinion in other words if we can really put israel on the spot

here's the big picture first with the radars. we hood some showers this morning and seeing some to the south and west but it's out here just approaching cleveland now through western kentucky and west virginia, zoo that thin line of yellow and arrange? that's going to be the severe weather line this evening. for the next couple of hours though we're going to watch these storms to the south and west and on live doppler 9000 hd when i show you this, there's nothing falling here. just a little ground clutter but we're getting into now northern fauquier county and culpeper and almost to amosville now east of luray a pretty intense cell there. a little bit of lightning with this tracking north. this is going to get into loudoun county in the next hour, hour and a half moving to the northeast at about 35 miles per hour. the other thing that's going to fuel the storm, the temperatures, they're warming. 80 fredericksburg and 84 the tappahannock airport and we're up to 80 now. some heat and humidity and upper level energy, the ingredients

and the fact that he's able to see the big picture which you talk a lot about in your book that he has this unusual ability to see the whole chess board and see the big picture, and stay above kind of the fray, in a way that's also a weakness. because it -- at times he has been accused of detachment and something the public doesn't want to see in a president. >> this whole culture is based on the zeitgeist of the very moment. and obama has a different rhythm and never quite there. chris: you quote a close friend saying obama developed a perfectionist drive for unity. a perfectionist drive for unity. a reason he would have so much trouble with confrontation. it's almost like when you have written about people like bill clinton and reagan who are sons of alcoholics, they want to find a -- accord, peace, harmony and isn't there and pretend it's there when it's not there. his tament to try to bring together adversarial forces, what's that about? the drive. >> it's about his whole being. he represents opposite forces, right? he represents kenya -- kenyan and an american and neither black no

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour remember anonymous the high power internet hacking collective that has taken down company sites like amazon master card and visa well despite its hacking success the group still remains a mystery so where do they come from and what's anonymous is game and later america prides itself as a nation where quote we the people can govern ourselves through voting unfortunately conservatives didn't get that memo will explain the conservative assault on democratic voters in tonight's daily take. this week you hacktivist collective known as anonymous began a campaign to expose and shame suspected pedophiles who use twitter to prey on underage children already hundreds of twitter accounts of suspected pedophiles have been outed alongside a threat by anonymous warning quote you mess with our children you mess with us anonymous says it released the names and hopes that twitter will do its part working with law enforcement agencies to enforce its own network and crackdown on child pedophilia in recent months

back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour as greeks go to the polls again at the end of the week the fate of the greek economy and society looms large if greek you have greece decides to leave the euro what kind of a shock waves will that decision have on the rest of europe also another secret government document was leaked today revealing new information on president obama's free trade policy beliefs what exactly did the report say what is the why is the white house standing up for foreign companies and not the american workers and what ever wonder what america would be like with a fascist government a bit romney becomes president former vice president may well have suggested we'll find out very quickly explain why and how into that steely take. in screwed news of an election looming at the end of the week greeks are preparing for the worst case scenario an exit from the euro and is suing economic crisis polls show that the leftists are is a party which is against austerity and wants to cancel the greek bailout is winning by a slim margin heading into sunday'

and put together a strong, responsible ris fall plan for our country that takes into account the big picture, which obviously is not just defense spending, not just nondefense discretionary spending, but also the 60% plus of our budget that includes mandatory spending. until we do that, we're not going to get our fiscal house in order in the way that we need to to get our country on the right track. but today we're here to talk about this threat to our national security. i want to put it in perspective. i'm not someone, i serve on the senate armed services committee and the ranking republican on the readiness subcommittee. i'm not someone who says that we shouldn't cut anything from our department of defense. but we have to put into perspective where we are with our department of defense right now because in addition to this issue of sequestration, the president's proposed 2013 budget that is come forward has already been taken up by the senate armed services committee and the house committee as well in terms of the authorizing committees. that will be a cut of $487 billion of spending reduc