gassed by police taping it that's happening and really hurts your eyes a lot another journalist christine quinn handcuffed while text messaging then held for several hours i was directed down across the bridge on october twelfth right in front then there's a brutal detention of space bougie caught on tape by a colleague the one from where we came out from behind a router to the ground. an estimated twenty six journalists have been far been arrested covering all keep my wall street protests the majority are members of alternative media the media is there to be a watchdog to report the news not to give you gentle soundbites said don't hurt your millionaire years not hurting millionaire ears or the corporate media often covering the action from behind the barricades relaxed but amid the crowd many journalists have been blocked regardless of their press passes are up which means or be just too much of the process. and we're even threatened to have their media credentials taken away. the day of taking press can press passes this is unprecedented behavior it's shocking to me you know it's just that o

i am very moved when christine quinn who's the speaker of the new york city council, a serious candidateayor bloomberg tells audiences that christine is in her 40's, my example was helpful to her, yeah look -- the best anti-dote to prejudice is reality. because prejudice is by definition based on ignorance of people's real condition. and i am proud that by my finally coming out, it didn't have in a clean sweep. when i volunteered, i do think it was helpful in that regard. one of the things that we were able to do in the lame duck congress last year was the repeel of don't ask, don't tell. and i was able to play a major role in that, speaker pelosi, then speaker pelosi really put me in charge of that. i have the gavel that was used when don't ask, don't tell was repeeled hanging up. when i got to congress in 1980 there was a good deal of cooperation, there were differences. and newt gingrich came in congress and specifically said and he's written this, he did not believe the republicans would ever be able to take over as long as it was scene as a debate between people's good will. that he