about the targeting of people who quote a substantially support terrorist or associated forces chris hedges for example argues he could be a target because he's interviewing some alleged terrorists as part of his job why can't these provisions just be removed. well that is another option and we hope that during the pendency of this appeal this appeal that the congress will come to their senses and honor the constitution under the first first move principles of free speech the fifth member principle due process and repeal these provisions of the n.d.a. and make make it very clear what the government can do and what it appears to be because right now there's a sword of damocles hanging over all journalists all activists in effect all citizens of this country and that was karl mayor attorney for the mayor longer of. the storm is brewing over the recent purchase of a prison by the u.s. government the president thomson illinois and the state made the sale to the federal bureau of prisons for one hundred sixty five million dollars so here's what's causing concern for some several lawmakers and gr

american citizens group activists and lawyers including the pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges attempted to rid the law of this indefinite detention quads by finding a lawsuit against obama in the justice department earlier this year u.s. judge katherine forest ruled in favor of the plaintiffs stating that section ten twenty one b. is unconstitutional and violates citizens' rights protected by the first and fifth amendments and she placed a temporary injunction on the provision and in september judge forrest decided to make the injunction permanent but in a surprise move only hours later obama's lawyers pleaded for an emergency stay on the ruling saying that it could cause irreparable harm to u.s. national security now alone federal peals judge heard that plea in temporarily blocked judge force injunction and earlier this month a three judge panel extended the temporary stay put in indefinite detention under the n.b.a. back on the books and that's where we are now so help me talk more about the case of the n.b.a. and what it could mean for you and me i'm joined by activists and

on the injunction but mental gymnastics of justifying this i wanted to talk to you about what chris hedges recently said is you know obama's immediate reaction to this really does show that potentially the end is being used already i mean the legal frameworks in place you just said the they are they will use it i mean that's undeniable when you think about the fact if they already are using it well i think that there are they are in contempt of the judge's original ruling you know they scoffed at me and the other two plaintiffs who testified in court the first hearing they said you know well do you know anybody who's been detained under the n.d.a. and of course we answered like this is not something that is public knowledge of but you know. monica in the second hearing when the judge specifically asked them if anybody was because they kept saying it's just like the you a map and the judge asked them is anybody detained into the n.d.a. and they couldn't answer the question themselves so it's just really the softer street of the executive branch which has had a very long period. that is unfo

months ago i sat down with one of the plaintiffs in the case hedges a hedge is the obama here's chris hedges himself breaking down the two sections of the n.d.a. that the lawsuit focuses on sections of ten twenty one and ten twenty two which in essence allows the executive branch to strip an american citizen of their constitutional rights to due process and to hold them in military facilities that's what we're question a very very tiny part of the bill which i think you know you don't have to be a legal scholar to determine is clearly unconstitutional mean we agree just violation of constitutional rights is really you know undeniable so we want to break down exactly what yesterday's ruling means for the n.d.a. for journalists and for the country itself i'm joined now by carl mayer attorney for the mayer law group karl what's the bigger takeaway here from this latest ruling on n.d.a. . thanks christine thanks for having me on the the import of this ruling is more procedural one than anything else this is an appeals court the second circuit court of appeals in manhattan and they ruled to put a

contributions me made and i think they were incredibly powerful speeches by thomas drake and by chris hedges and by david house and i just liberate iraq as well thank you. i did the best i could it's very hard because he is an incredibly significant whistleblower and arguably one of the most important ones of the past century even daniel ellsberg the patriarch of whistleblowers says that about bradley manning ellsberg of course leaked the pentagon papers to maritimes and other publications let's talk about bradley manning and what's next of course this these funds are needed bradley manning has an attorney david coombs these funds are needed to continue to support him and he has been as we said you know behind bars for eight hundred fifty two hundred sixty two days i think he still has not gone to trial what's going on here well his attorneys have actually recently filed a motion about his right to a speedy trial that he's entitled to under the sixty amendment of the u.s. constitution and also under article ten of the uniform code of military justice. that is one motion we have been upcoming

and shop and journalist chris hedges and others. no matter what anyone feels about bradley manning everyone in america supports whistleblowers it supports transparency. and example the young soldier is alleged to have. sold their kids everywhere she had a good opinion of the young and the point of the event to raise awareness of course but also to raise money donations and book sales someone even donated a bottle of wine california white holds true for everything raised here will go to the bradley manning defense ever since nine eleven i've been concerned our civil liberties are in jeopardy and it's pretty obvious that. this is why i came to massachusetts to be here and support several georgetown law students and professors attended the event many knew very little about manning beforehand i learned a lot more than more knowledge and i came here with it's very important for me to be here to see them face to face. with a little worse. especially here i discussion about a young man his future and the future of a country's laws and lega

of the bradley manning support network david house duty author and cyber office and journalist chris hedges and others. no matter what anyone feels about probably many everyone in america will be sports whistleblower is of course transparency i'm probably many news an example of a young soldier if he was alleged to have blown the whistle so there are kids everywhere for sure he had a good opinion of the young man and the point of the events to raise awareness in court but also to raise money donations and book sales someone even donated a bottle of wine in california a white called screw everything raised here will go to the bradley manning defense fund ever since nine eleven i've been concerned that our civil liberties are in jeopardy and it's pretty obvious that. this is why i came from massachusetts to join. here supported several georgetown law students and professors attended the event many knew very little about manning beforehand i want to know why don't we more than take more knowledge and i came here with it's very important for me to be here to see the. worst. of this question her

asthma and cancer inducing pollution from refining that stuff pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges called the keystone pipeline part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state and climate scientists james han't james hansen warned that completion of the pipeline would be game over for the climate and yet in the debate we have mitt romney criticizing the president for not building it while the president is building it the trick is the very reasonable question these guys really that out of touch with what's going on on this planet tragically the answer is no they're just scared as hell big oil and the power big oil has in this election thanks to the u.s. supreme court. since citizens united trashed any limits on corporate spending this election big oil has moved to spend huge amounts of money promoting their industry and taking down any politician who doesn't over the line as the new york times reports coal and oil interest groups have spent more than one hundred fifty million dollars on nearly one hundred forty different advertisements that have run tens of th

year for the first time since one nine hundred eighty eight pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges called the keystone pipeline quote part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state and quote unfortunately he's dead on and is the subject of tonight's philly take. so here's a tad what's happening in east texas a foreign corporation actually a multinational corporation based in canada is confiscating private land belonging to a seventy eight year old great grandmother in order to build a toxic pipeline to ship oil off to other foreign nations just another day in third world america here is eleanor fairchild an actress daryl hannah standing in front of tractors that are clearing a pathway for the pipeline right through fairchild's three hundred acre ranch was tractors belong to the canadian company trans canada which recently want to prove to build a massive toxic tar sands oil pipeline right through the united states and right through mrs fairchild's property down to texas where oil billionaires can refine it and then ship it off to the rest of the world making

his book days of destruction days of reason bold pulitzer prize winning journalist and author chris hedges highlights the plight of camden new jersey calling it a sacrifice zone to global capitalism what used to be a booming manufacturing sector an important export hob has been decimated turning camden new jersey into one of the most dangerous cities in america and despite murders within the city on track to break all time records this year candid is moving to. lay off its remaining two hundred seventy three police officers to save money and instead hire non-unionized police officers to handle the streets the police union is suing the city claiming the move will risk public safety joining me now is josh eidelson labor reporter for salon and in these times josh welcome thanks for having me back tom thanks for thanks for joining us it's great to see you again the n.f.l. refs are back but it's not all good news for organized labor. first of all let's explain the difference between actually i'd like to start with camden new jersey we just we were just talking about that are we going to see a s

an aggressive response to a judge that he himself appointed pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges put it like this he said the fact that they responded so aggressively. i think is an indication to me and the lawyers that they are already using the law because of the laws taken off the books and are holding us citizens and military facilities that's what section ten twenty one permits the military to carry out domestic policing pulled u.s. citizens and their facilities strip them of due process that of course hold them in their offshore penal colonies like one ton of a bay or bag room so if they were holding citizens in a lot of stricken off the books as unconstitutional as judge forrest did they would be in contempt of court so there you have it you can still be indefinitely detained for being accused of supporting terrorism and if you're not pissed you should be i am and that's why i'm breaking the set. of supporters. the first presidential debate is tonight it's pretty much a full out media blitz c.n.n. m s n b c of enlisted a new year's eve style countdown to the debates as anc

throughout the year obama should just be sitting down with mitt romney should be saying that chomsky or chris hedges or other other people who have heard or ideas you should really have an intelligent conversation going to gaza and occupy often activists are joining us live from texas of course in the u.s. thank you very much for coming on the program today. well as well campaign it will continue on air and online all the way up to the boat i do stay with us here on our team as we explore some of the most overlooked and outright ignored aspects of the race. what lies ahead for auction will movements mobilize calls for a new american who stands for the millions nine percent u.s. election is close by monday october twenty ninth on r.t.e. . thanks for joining us here on our to today russia's foreign minister says international powers should put more pressure on the warring sides in syria after the latest truce was wrecked after meeting the international envoy to syria right here in moscow sort of left off urged western states and regional players to engage with president assad piskun office been follow

think that chris hedges actually brought up yesterday's event was that he believes that the national defense authorization act of fiscal year two thousand and twelve. those indefinite detention provisions that are in there specifically ten twenty one b. you know the statute that actually says we can hold u.s. citizens without trial forever and ever and i'm never going. to find one he was saying that he believes that the government is already using those provisions and they are indefinitely detaining u.s. citizens perhaps even on american soil for crimes that. they are going to be charged as not being charged but now we know all the people at guantanamo been sitting there and wasting away we know bradley's been wasting away for eight hundred sixty two days now and chris i just as well i think i don't under the n.d.a. people are already. using it to imprison others and it's a fairly good good chance that that's actually the very very unfortunate truth we know that there is this war and whistleblowers we know that the government is continuing to fight in federal court for the power to i

tool for law enforcement in both parts of the world to work to quash those it's as journalist chris hedges points out it's all about criminalizing dissent. tragically the day may come indeed it may already be here when if you plan to protest the corporate takeover of our government drone warfare or intentional or indefinite detention if you are protesting those things you'll find yourself in jail before you even get into the streets seem impossible just ask the people planning protests of the r n c in minneapolis in two thousand and eight the bush administration had them take it out before they could even publicly speak out it's getting more and more difficult and more and more dangerous to launch successful socially transformational movements because the powers that be including the corporations or industries you may be protesting against know ahead of time with all your moves are going to be yes it's annoying to receive ads online or even have an embarrassing picture you post on facebook but that should be the least of our worries when it comes to online privacy the fundamental ability f

you know here he is i mean to me i mean i for watching and we're just like i would love to see chris hedges moderate this debate i mean if. they don't you want to see some really hard questions these people need to deal with that i want this guy just appeasing them feeling that you know. it was i mean i was watching the debate at the press club and i left and tried to zoom down to georgetown as fast as possible but some of people i was watching the stuff were like jim lehrer's friends yeah you could even see them wincing i'm not going to i'm not going to go as far as obama operatives and say that jim lehrer was the reason the president should look good right i mean even the poynter institute which is the you know sign is sure of all things journalistic and could continue again and said he did a terrible job and for the end of the president on a lot of off the hook for that you have to prepare for these things so you have to prepare for a crappy moderator really person is going to win here or the people the writers at saturday night live because god knows the guy who plays jim lehrer is goin

host and author chris hedges and we begin tonight with tom's conversation with tom shadyac the man behind such films as a splinter a pet detective the nutty professor and bruce almighty and this conversation should yak talks about what motivated him to hang up all the fame and fortune making blockbuster movies to pursue more meaningful projects trying to find out what's wrong with the world how we can fix it and ultimately how we can be happier those are questions that aren't going away anytime soon so here it is tom's conversations with great minds with filmmaker tom shadyac. conversations with great minds i'm joined by renowned filmmaker tom shadyac he's been a director a producer a screenwriter an actor a comedian you name it he's done it and his movies are some of the most widely recognized films in the last few decades from ace ventura pet detective series to the nutty professor movies to liar liar and bruce almighty his most recent film he takes us on a journey in search of the nature of humanity and what it means to live a truly fulfilling life on this planet topic will definitely

detained under the law because their jobs sometimes require them to communicate with terrorists chris hedges is one of the plaintiffs here he is speaking to r.t. about the dangers of this law. it removes due process for anybody who is deemed a terrorist but to have contact with these associated forces that's not a term that's defined it's nebulous it's quite a frightening piece of legislation how does on the other plaintiffs had some victories and blocking the controversial provision that allows for indefinite detention but on tuesday the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit extended indefinite detention powers so there you have it the top five topics that likely will be discussed and the first presidential debate but who knows maybe it'll surprise us but i wouldn't put my money on it in washington liz wall r.t. . all right everyone that's going to do it for now if you missed any part of today's shows you're in luck we post all of our interviews online in full you can find them at youtube dot com slash r.t. america you can click come.

chris thing that the government should have done more than could've bailed out more people. megyn: they did what they could. >> well, this happens. don't forget that this doesn't happen by magic. delphi was bought by hedgeegyn: chris, go ahead. >> that is an extraordinary adherence to the party talking points. it is almost dazzling. it is, of course, a hedge fund that mitt romney doesn't manage and what we are talking about is the obama administration. mitt romney had no -- [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> hang on. you know, look, it is about whether tim geithner in the treasury department under barack obama stepped in to reward their friends -- it is another scandal, it is another case of chicago corruption and so forth. megyn: i want to ask about this, this has become an issue because team obama really think it's going to be a winner for them in ohio and michigan and so on. it led to this exchange of the debate on monday night. >> as the president mentioned, the auto industry would be in favor of jobs being elsewhere. nothing could be further from the truth. in that process, they can get government help and guarantees. the debt burden that they built up, -- [talking over each oth

hedge a bet here. one person said that there is not a make or break moment or they don't expect and that was paul ryan. chris christie said the next day, thursday, will be romney's time to shine because we will all be talking about how he basically hit it out of the park? >> well, you know, chris christie has a babe ruth in him, likes to point to the outfield and put mustache on the hot dog. i don't know that mitt romney is capable of one. but what mitt romney needs to do is begin a real conversation that's months overdue with the american people about why his presidency would be superior for the next four years and this is his last best chance to open and begin a conversation that's three months overdue. >> so michael, let me bring you in. "the washington post" asked folks who will win the debate. 55% said president obama, 31% said mitt romney. what do you think they're basing that on? >> i think they're basing it on past performance and the observation that they think that president obama is a pretty cool customer in the sort of scenarios. i believe that chris christie has the right answer and the reason i

chris, more. as far as numbers, we've been stuck in a little bit of a range, obviously very sloppy market today. big ones are getting hurt. generals, google, a lot of hedge have been lightening up on their hedges because they're looking to be long, they don't want to waste their money going into the end of the year. now they're caught a little bit looking for this market to power through. this one might have cost them a little bit by surprise and it may carry through to next week. >> i think what you're saying here, if i'm hearing you correctly, is we're particularly concerned because of the kind of commentary an earnings misses that we're getting from some really big bellwether names. right? and a lot of multi-national companies as well that kind of speak for the global slowdown theory. i want to ask you, david, what would you be doing in terms of your strategy going into next week? >> i've been short for actually a little while and really baffled, to be honest with you, why this market was going up as much as it did. a lot of the shorts are feeling a little bit relieved and vindicated today. what i going into next week is lower on monday then i think w

hedging his bets for upcoming winter. it could be really warm or really stormy or something in between. melissa: right. the new political odd couple once president obama's harshest critic, new jersey governor chrise commending his leadership during the storm. lou dobbs is here with his take on that. >> as we go to break, look at the 10 and 30-year treasurys. 10 down to 1.07% yield. meantime on 30-year-old yields also the same story just about unchanged at 2.87%. we'll be right back. >> him liz macdonald with your fox business brief. there is a bearish tone down on wall street after the new york stock exchange resumed trading after a historic two-day shut down. the last time the exchange was closed for two days of weather was in 1888. the market is down 30 points. >>> shares for seagate technology also under pressure after posting first quarter results that fell short of expectations, moving forward the storage device company also forecast weak revenue for its current quarter due to slowing pc sales and lower prices. >>> on the upside investors remain bullish about the warnaco group on the news of a buyout deal. rival pbh who markets calvin klein and tommy hilfiger brands is buying the company fo